Recently I was recently looking at different ways to eliminate termites.

I came across several sites that I would like to share:

http://www.greenpest.com.au/

Offers Do It Yourself, termite baits which you can buy and install. The only restriction is that they don’t sell any termiticide to public, because “the current label for all suitable termiticide restricts their availability to licenced pest managers only”, ” it is a specialised product for which our professional pest manager has undergone special training.”

Then I looked at how to acquire a licence:

http://www.ehow.com/how_5082517_license-pest-control-company.html

It looks rather complicated if I was just going to do it for one termite nest.  There are also courses:

http://www.pestcontrol.org.au/pest-control-certificate-course.html (APCA Pest Control Certificate)

https://www.tafensw.edu.au/howex/servlet/Course?Command=GetCourse&CourseNo=1377 (NSW Urban Pest Control (Licensing))

The APCA Pest Control Certificate take 6 weeks and costs $3000. Further more getting a licence looks time consuming, so I’ll skip that idea for now.

For now I’m thinking

1) to get “Termite Baits” and “Intrigue Dust” from “Green Termite Bait System”, install the bait and apply the dust, then look at the effects. Or

2) look at the prices for Pest Control, and get them to do it.

It also gave some good examples of family values to discuss:

• Compassion
• Honesty
• Integrity
• Courage
• Perseverance
• Trust
• Empathy
• Obedience
• Tolerance
• Loyalty
• Faith
• Respect
• Kindness
• Caring
• Acceptance
• Reliability

• Difference between ABN and ACN. Do I need both? http://www.companiesnow.com.au/Blog/if-i-have-an-acn-do-i-still-need-an-abn-for-my-company/ ; http://companiesnow.com.au/General-Business-FAQ-s/If-You-Have-an-ACN-for-a-Company-Do-You-Still-Need-an-ABN.html
• ABN, ACN, Business Management (Links to Australian Gov sites)
  http://www.australia.gov.au/topics/business-and-industry/abn-acn-business-management
• ABN essentials and how to register (from ATO
  http://www.ato.gov.au/businesses/pathway.asp?pc=001/003/021/001/004&mfp=001/003&mnu=615)

Here’s a trailer:

http://dbthemovie.com/

The cast can be found here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonball_(film)

Scheduled to release next year, the to be named ‘plastic logic reader’ developed by Plastic Logic after 10 years of research is just what you could be waiting for.

Here‘s a video of the product demo.

Acorrding to WHO: Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide: it accounted for 7.9 million deaths (around 13% of all deaths) in 2007.

While a complete cure for cancer is still in its research phase, treatments such as Chemotherapy, Radiotherapy, and Surgery has been adopted as the current means to battling this deadly disease with varying success rates based on the stage of the disease.

However these treatments leave fatal side effects. In some cases, they might have actually have a bigger contribution to the patient’s death as opposed to the cancer dieasea it self. In this article I’ll focus on Chemotherapy.

20 Things you need to know about Chemotherapy is a good article that talks about how Chemotherapy works and what you need to do or find out from your doctor before the treatment. The main idea behind the treatment is to stop cell division of these cancerous cells. But this would also have a large impact to other cell that divides often, such as white blood cells (reducing immunity), red blood cells (reducing oxgyen lv in body), mouth cells (causing a dry and uncomfortable mouth). Other effects include, hair loss, dry / discoloured skin and nail and  bone marrow problems.

Other Links

Cancer Council - Understanding Chemotherapy. Also has a list of other good resources to cancer.

Cancer Research UK – Side effects of Chemotherapy and how to reduce these side effects

Diet for Cancer Patient – a blog by a friend of mine regarding some diet recommendations for pre/post chemotherapy patients.

However, along with the high paying and important positions, many graduates (some of whom I know) also didn’t get very far, and was left with a bucket load of debt. After all MBA is a very financially challenging degree. Most of them costing on average $40,000 per year.

“Is Getting an MBA Worth it?” talks about an alternative form of education next to the MBA. Names PMBA (Personal MBA), it is an:

a web 2.0, Internet based, self-driven program, that focuses on a $1400 reading list of 70 books with web forums, discussion groups and coaching.

So for absolutely no cost (if we borrow the books from the library), we can gain the knolwedge on par with MBA graduates.

For people who are looking to start their MBA, I urge you to have a look at PMBA. Who knows, you could save yourself tens of thousands of dollars. Or if not, you would have gain more knowledge to prepare you for better marks in the actual MBA program.

Here is a PMBA site I came across: http://personalmba.com/

Need some good advice from experts?

Here’s a good link that talks about 1000 things a blogger has learnt. Click Here to view that article.

Just to give a tast, here’s the first five:

Blogging is not ‘writing a blog’. Blogging is linking and commenting. Any writing is a bonus.

Regular posting is important…

But quality posting is even more important. Spending a week or more on a single post can be one of the most important things you ever do.

First knowledge, then analysis, then ideas.

A picture is worth a thousand words. More importantly, a picture is worth a thousand words in two hundred countries. The fact that readers don’t need to speak English to understand what you’re communicating can make a word-free post – or at least one with a good image – your most successful one.