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 [...]

Recruiting, with a little help from your friends!

Recruiting, with a little help from your friends!
One of the lessons I learned last year was that not paying attention to our culture when recruiting, was to the detriment of my business. (see point 3 of Riding across bumpy ground). Over my holiday this year, I have reflected on how I used to interview staff at an Aussie pub I helped run in...
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Riding across bumpy ground.

Posted by darryl in Business, Life, ireckon on Dec 31 | 1 comment so far
Riding across bumpy ground.
It is New Years Eve down under, and no better time to reflect on the past year than now. It is a hot and muggy day, some might say this is how they feel 2008 has been. Hot under the financial blowtorch and feeling like you have been a little mugged. Has it torrid for you? I...
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There are no ‘zero cost’ items in web development

Posted by darryl in Business, Camping, This Web Thing, ireckon on Dec 05 | 2 comments
There are no ‘zero cost’ items in web development
This seems to be my ‘theme de mois’ at present. Perhaps it has come from a realisation that it is very easy in web development to include a few extras and people miss the actual value of them. A challenge while managing and building web applications, and sites, is to ensure everything is in the specification...
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Office Space / Coworking Brisbane – using our space better

Posted by darryl in Business, Misc., This Web Thing on Oct 14 | 5 comments
Office Space / Coworking Brisbane – using our space better
When we moved into our new office just over a year ago, we were busting the seams on our old space and needed more. At the time it felt like we would need more and more space to keep up. A year later, we have hit our maximum and have such a good space, I figured...
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is Google anyone’s friend?

Posted by darryl in Business on Oct 09 | 2 comments
is Google anyone’s friend?
Don’t get me wrong – like everyone who has been around the web for a long (read:maybe too long) time, Google has been an important part of opening the interweb up to the masses and making many web based things easy. But… As a closet data miner, and Information Analyser, I often wonder about when the popular...
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