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...
ireckon it’s an amazing race #irace
11 Dec
Today for something a little different I have set up an ‘Amazing Race’ around Brisbane CBD as part of the staff Xmas party. There are a whole lot of weird things going on and prizes for the winning team. There will be three teams of four racing about doing weird...
6 hours, twitter, a #spill, a spare domain and a bit of fun
02 Dec
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...
How safe is your offline data?
02 Dec
Yesterday morning the business residents of Woolloongabba (where our office lives), were inundated with a paper flood. I didn’t witness the event, but drove in not long after, to a bunch of council workers clearing a road covered in paper. Logan Road was a wash with someone’s documents. Being the...
Take notice of the warnings.
29 Nov
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...
All that glitters is not gold!
14 Nov
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...
The Perfect Gift for a Man e-book now free
10 Nov
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...
A tweeterview about The Perfect Gift for a Man
05 Nov
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...
Cover you mean Printed, then that's a rule... 18 days ago