http://marlonmarescia.com Business | Technology | Life Sun, 22 Jun 2008 12:47:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was listening to the audio book "How to win friends and influence people" the other day when I came across this piece called "Father Forgets" by W. Livingston Larned. It speaks of a father who has been impatient with his young son during the day and ... http://marlonmarescia.com/index.php/2008/06/parents-dont-expect-maturity-from-a-child/ While doing research on a potential client before an initial sales meeting I found this quote on their website. "Every time a man puts a new idea across he finds ten men who thought of it before he did – but they only thought of it." ... http://marlonmarescia.com/index.php/2008/06/you-dont-need-more-good-ideas/ If you want to create PDF files and don't want to fork out the cash for the full version of Adobe Acrobat, you can use CutePDF Writer instead. CutePDF Writer is a free download. The CutePDF Writer is added as a printer to your print dialog box as shown in ... http://marlonmarescia.com/index.php/2008/06/create-pdf-files-without-purchasing-adobe-acrobat/ The other day I had to send a large file to a friend. I didn't want to send it through email because it was very large. I decided to use SkyDrive. SkyDrive is a personal hard drive in the Internet. To use it you need to sign up ... http://marlonmarescia.com/index.php/2008/06/sending-large-files-across-the-internet-with-skydrive/ I found a great website the other day called www.PersonalMBA.com The author of this site has put together a reading list of books that he believes contains similar information to an MBA course. The idea is that instead of spending $100K on an MBA course you could read this list of ... http://marlonmarescia.com/index.php/2008/06/the-personal-mba/ The last few months I have been listening to audio books on my iPod while driving to work in the car. This has had a drastic impact on the quality of my trip. It used to be chore driving to work listening to the radio or a random .NET podcast. The ... http://marlonmarescia.com/index.php/2008/06/learn-as-you-drive-with-audio-books/ I attended the 1st Red Bull FlugTag today with my 4 year old boy. I was amazed at the the size of the crowd and would estimate that there were over 50,000 people around the foreshore in front of the Royal botanical Gardens in Sydney. The Red Bull Marketing ... http://marlonmarescia.com/index.php/2008/04/1st-australian-red-bull-flugtag/