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 [...]

Peter Dutton MP are you for or against the filter?

Posted by darryl in Featured Posts, Life on Mar 03 | 3 comments
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...
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Maunsell Haulage drivers should be shamed

Posted by darryl in Life, Misc. on Dec 21 | No comments yet
Maunsell Haulage drivers should be shamed
Rant time. Name and shame time! On Saturday driving up the Bruce Highway, along with many other holiday-makers, I saw an absolute tragedy in the making. Keep in mind that when you are towing a big camping rig, you tend to be ever vigilant and a lot steadier in decision making than others, but none the...
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Why your lack of morals might be forcing us into a nanny state!

Posted by darryl in Life, This Web Thing on Dec 15 | 6 comments
Why your lack of morals might be forcing us into a nanny state!
I have two bees, one bonnet. The first bee. The #nocleanfeed debate / rage is up and running full fury. Thanks to a government that appears to want to ruin some of the freedoms, which have been fought for so strongly over time. I hate the idea very much! I understand the rage and the well thought out...
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Bigotry is alive and well in Brisbane

Posted by darryl in Life, Misc. on Dec 12 | 3 comments
Bigotry is alive and well in Brisbane
Yesterday I was embarrassed. As part of #irace (our staff activity for Xmas)  one of our staff teams wore ‘hot pink’ t-shirts. This was an all male (heterosexual) team and the pink colour was one of three bright colours. The event was all in good fun, and no one was supposed to get hurt. Thankfully no one...
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Take notice of the warnings.

Posted by darryl in Business, Life on Nov 29 | 2 comments
Take notice of the warnings.
Today I spent the afternoon at Woody Point Redcliffe. It was the turn-around point for one of my sons outing with his cadet group. Basically they cycled 15km to there, then back 15km to Shorncliffe to earn their cycling badge. While myself and some of the other fathers waited with the supplies and cooked snags on...
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