hi there!
I see you've stumbled on to my humble home on the net, Drive:Activated. My name's Sam, I'm an ambitious and driven uni student, residing in Melbourne, Australia, wanting to make my mark on our world. This is my site, which is mainly just my blog and some other bits. There's no definite theme to my blog, just anything that interests me, and currently that's web trends, startups, ideas and cool stuff. Check it out, leave me a comment, click on 'Who is this?' to find out more about me, or drop me a line by clicking on 'Let's Talk'. Hope you enjoy it!

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A while back I was brainstorming ideas for a project to keep me occupied during the break. I'm a big fan of brainstorming and mindmaps, so I opened up MindManager (great program by the way) and started stormin' away. Things were going well, and soon I had a few solid leads that I wanted to follow...
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A while ago, a mate and I were brainstorming ideas to link in his work out/fitness/health/sport fetish with the web, with the view to form something financially viable out of it. We saw lots of fitness community websites out there like traineo , gimme20 , peertrainer and sparkpeople , but they're...
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I've been sitting on this for a while, but never managed to get it polished enough, so I thought screw it, here it is. While pondering what I'm gonna do for the rest of my life (well at least the next few years anyway), I created a list of things I saw the world of tech focusing on for some direction...
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Picture of Dorf's Eclipse Basin Mixer. I was washing my hands the other day and thought, how much water do we waste when we just flick/turn on the tap without any regard to the actual water flow? Yes, I know, I have weird thoughts, but hear me out. Most newer houses now have flick mixers for most taps...