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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...

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6 hours, twitter, a #spill, a spare domain and a bit of fun

It started at almost the close of business yesterday. Our sysadmin came to me with an idea he was sure I would hate. Keep in mind he doesn’t really use twitter much, he is one of the few in our office who don’t, but what I love about my crew...

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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...

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The Perfect Gift for a Man e-book now free

Due to some changes made to the printed version and a desire to make sure the book gets spread as far and wide as possible to help young men / men of all ages, The Perfect Gift for a Man ebook is now available free.  Read the update. You can...

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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...

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Rebuilding a garden…. and our health?

One year ago, November 2008, saw a decent storm waltz through Brisbane.  It absolutely devastated The Gap, and out where we live on the north side of Brisbane we copped a fair bit of it as well. Our acreage property had trees down and damage all over, none to our...

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Setting Challenges and seeing the humour

This past weekend I helped out as land crew for Sean Smith (aka @fatpaddler), as he navigated the waters of the Hawkesbury River in NSW, to complete a mammoth 111km kayak challenge. The Hawkesbury Canoe Classic is a charitable event which has both a competitive and less so stream to...

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The perfect gift for a man – Book Available

A group of Australian men have banded together to create a book about some of the tough issues facing the average Aussie bloke. The book, The Perfect Gift for a Man – 30 Stories about Reinventing Manhood aims to get men talking about their feelings in a bid to help...

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Yellow Pages – What are you used for?

Last weekend I questioned people on Twitter about what they used their Yellow Pages for. Why? Well I have seen numerous TVC’s recently promoting how grand the Yellow Pages are, you know the end of buying season ads that run, validating the cost of advertising. The adverts reinforce for me...

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