Wizzard's Emporium is alive!!!

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Oct 012009

Yes Wizzard’s Emporium is now live after several months of planning, then some tinkering then in the past week some hard graft and the beast has awoken. At this time I’ll only be accepting orders from those with addresses within the UK (United Kingdom).

Here’s the link:

http://wizzardsemporium.com/shop

I’ll also link it up in the blogroll section.

I’m currently running a launch promotion until the end of the month, 10% off all orders.

When you come to check out enter the code 10PCOFF in the relevant box. If the code doesn’t work, email webmaster@wizzardsemporium.com with your order number and I’ll sort it for you.

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Posted by wizzardsblog at 8:55 am Tagged with: ,

The iPhone sandpit got a little more crowded

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Sep 292009

Thanks to a headsup from @mashable on twitter.

Now Vodafone are bringing their bucket and spade to play in the sandpit in 2010.

This should be more great news for consumers.

Here’s a link to mashable’s and BBC’s articles:

http://mashable.com/2009/09/29/vodafone-iphone-uk/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8278073.stm

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Posted by wizzardsblog at 12:17 pm Tagged with: ,

Orange to sell iPhone in the UK.

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Sep 282009

According to @ruskin147 and @bbctech and this article:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8278073.stm

Orange have signed a deal to sell the iPhone in the UK. Hopefully this will now drive prices down. I wonder how O2 will react now Orange get to play in the iPhone sandpit?

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Posted by wizzardsblog at 9:12 am Tagged with: ,

Cube Cart developers please take note

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Sep 272009

I’m calling out the cube cart developers about their lack of response to a bug I reported. Even if it were an acknowledgement to say the issue was being looked at.

This is a direct link to the bug in question:

http://bugs.cubecart.com/view.php?id=1591

Yes I did post this on a Friday, however, being as we are a 24/7/365 online society, the upcoming weekend should not have an bearing on a response time.

It only takes a moment for someone to acknowledge that they are going to look at it.

As I stated in that bug report, because of the lack of response I’m having to go through thousands of product titles removing the apostrophes.

Not something that I feel I should do when I’ve paid £110 for a licence.

So if someone out there reading this knows someone at Devellion, point them in the direction of this blog entry or the bug entry I have posted on their bug tracker.

Or someone who has some experience of this kind of bug could take a look and come up with a solution.

When I launch my site to the masses, I don’t want my customers to come across show stopping errors like this one.

I won’t be waiting around my computer for a response as I’m out for sunday dinner, so please feel free to leave a comment for my return.

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Stop getting hung up on job titles

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Jul 202009

As the title of this post says.

I don’t care what your job title is, it’s what you do that counts. I could make up comedy job titles if I wanted to.

It’s time to change the mindset of people. Call yourself what ever you want, as long as it doesn’t offend someone. I’m more impressed with what you can achieve, your job title is way off in the distance.

In fact job titles can cover up how much you actually do. You can give yourself a fancy job title and actually do bugger all, all day.

Posted by wizzardsblog at 6:53 pm

Job Titles?

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Jun 192009

What’s actually in a job title? In my opinion not a lot, it’s just a fancy title, it doesn’t really tell anyone what you do on a day to day basis.

Let’s just strip away the peel of the orange and take a look inside, the real juicy stuff is there, not the peel or pith that the job title generates.

For example when I see the job title “Finance Director” I just get the opinion that the person plays with numbers all day. What I don’t see is the precarious balancing act that the job entails to ensure that the business doesn’t go down the tubes because someone has made the decision to try and buy something that the company doesn’t really need or can ill-afford.

I like to see what people do on a day to day basis, I love reading “A Day in the life of XYZ” posts, it’s fascinating to see a snapshot of a single day.

That impresses me far more than a fancy job title. A job title just tells me where on the corporate ladder you are, doesn’t tell me whether you’re actually any good at your job or what you do from day to day.

So this is the “Supreme Overlord of the Wizzard’s Blog Empire” signing off.

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Posted by wizzardsblog at 11:21 am Tagged with: ,

Thinking of others

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Jun 122009

In business we all know it can be cutthroat always looking at the bottom line. However how many owners/directors actually think about their employees?

Companies changing offices/policies, are the owners/directors doing it for the benefit of their employees or they doing it because it’s more convenient for them?

If you are the owner/director of a company, don’t take your eye off the ball, always look at the bigger picture. Never just do something because it’s convenient for you. If you start doing that you’ll have a lot of disgruntled employees.

Employees make a company remember that, if you suddenly lost all of your employees whould you be able to cope with the workload left behind?

Don’t move your office 100 miles down the motorway just because you’ve found a cheaper place to rent, what about your employees? Not all of them will relish the 200 mile round trip to work each day, or the possibility of having to relocate. Especially if there are young children involved, uprooting them having to find new schools, making new friends etc..

We’re not numbers on a spreadsheet, we are human beings and need to be treated as such.

If you want to cut your wages bill, take a salary cut yourself, put yourself in your employees shoes.

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