Peter Dutton MP are you for or against the filter?

It’s an election year. I am the consumer. My single vote is meant to count. I want to know where politicians vying for my vote stand. I want them to earn my vote, or accept the consequence. I want politicians the country over to step out from the shadows of their mighty parties and their leaders, and stand for [...]

Getting movie tickets shouldn’t be such an event.

This post first started in early 2009, back when the Event Cinemas site was still found at the greaterunion.com.au domain. As evidenced across social media channels, many users were frustrated by an awkward and poorly serviced website provided by one of Australia’s leading entertainment providers. I wanted to summarise many of the site failures into [...]

Education is meant to be about learning

Today, the launch of the My School website occurred. It was heavily promoted, and given how controversial the scoring system and the way schools can be compared has been, it was always going to be a pretty obvious heavy first day of usage. It was very disappointing (albeit a little expected) to see that the site has [...]

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All that glitters is not gold!

Last night a person (yes a real human) made several mistakes. They made an error and then the attempts to manage it weren’t so great and things didn’t exactly resolve themselves as they could have. Ever happened to you? In your working life, have you ever made one of those mistakes that sent chills down your [...]

A tweeterview about The Perfect Gift for a Man

Today I tweeterviewed co-creator of the concept and book ‘The Perfect Gift for a Man’, Gavin Heaton (@servantofchaos). This was a follow up to a previous post about the launch of the book. Yes it is a shameless plug for the book, but then why not. It is a serious cause. Importantly the tweeterview provides some additional [...]

Teamwork is a great thing to watch

Posted by darryl in Business, Life, ireckon on Feb 13 | 1 comment so far
Teamwork is a great thing to watch
Last night we (ireckon) were part of #bnetwestival (The Brisbane Twestival), which was a great bunch of young (and some not so young) Volunteers pitching themselves together to get a result for someone else. What motivates people, already busy and challenged enough, to have 4 weeks to plan a public event designed to raise money for...
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When free turns to paid. Twitter for Brands (business).

Posted by darryl in Business on Feb 11 | 1 comment so far
When free turns to paid. Twitter for Brands (business).
Over the last couple of days the news is out of the box, that Twitter is considering charging brands (this is still to be adequately defined) for using twitter and possible related services. Those of us that have been tweeting and observing for a while have wondered what Twitter’s first play would be in commercialising this...
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Politics at the Coalface

Posted by darryl in Business on Feb 05 | 2 comments
Politics at the Coalface
Today at February’s Queensland Leaders forum there was a lot of reference, understandably, to the Global Credit Crisis, Queensland’s mining industry and of course, with guest speaker Lawrence Springborg, how poorly Queensland Labor are handling matters. I had hoped, albeit naively, that from the LNP leader we might see less politicking in this smaller forum, than...
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A Boss Who Tells It Like It Is

Posted by darryl in Business, Life on Feb 04 | 15 comments
A Boss Who Tells It Like It Is
Note> This wasn’t written by me and I received it via email. I do however agree with some of the sentiments and particularly in how / when we will the populist approach to politics change in favour of supporting the parts of the economy that do matter. I am posting it here on my blog in...
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Choosing the right tool for the job, gardens or web tech, it saves in the end.

Choosing the right tool for the job, gardens or web tech, it saves in the end.
My camping holiday is over again. I came back to my semi rural property overgrown and messy. My ride-on mower had gone to God; it was hot and didn’t look like I was in for much fun at all. Several options ran through my head: Can I force this old mower to start and do a rough...
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