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November 20, 2007Hello to those readers who’ve arrived here via the Productivity Show. It’s been a while since I blogged here. I occasionally blog over at Anecdote, which is where I’m working.
I’ve been wondering for a while what to do with this blog and I haven’t completely resolved that yet. I had a thought that I might try and separate work and personal, but I came to the conclusion that this is a tenuous division at best — we take ourselves everywhere we go. If you have any thoughts about this, I’d love to hear them.
So, with that said: enjoy the archives, but expect light blogging here. Thanks for coming.
green h0sting
February 19, 2007My webhost serversaurus has just announced that they are offsetting the CO2 emissions created by their servers, and are donating 1% of their profits annually to preserve the natural environment. A nice gesture and worthy cause. If you’re looking for ‘green’ hosting — check it out!
What’s going on here?
February 6, 2007A change of face for a while … just upgrade to WP2.1 and my theme didn’t cope too well :(   I’m just going to stick to Kubrick for time being, otherwise its just more distractions from the task of actually writing something here.
Happy Holidays!
December 22, 2006I’ll be off the grid for the next week or so … planning on spending a few quite days with the family and a few days kicking back camping. Plenty of thinking to do over the holidays: plans for the new year (and beyond), the blog - what direction it should go? Geez, I’m giving myself a headache just thinking about it! Thanks to everyone who’s commented or emailed during the year and for reading.
Whilst I’m not celebrating xmas for any religious reasons, it still can be a holiday to celebrate a wide variety of things like family, community and love. I hope that you have a safe and happy one!
5 Things Most People Don’t Know About Me
December 13, 2006Ok, I’ll play. Tony has tagged me to join the meme of “5 Things Most People Don’t Know About Me”. I quite like this idea … it’s a good icebreaker and goes beneath the “elevator pitch” facade most people are forced to carry around to comply with social norms.
So here it is:
1. Despite having both Undergrad (BA) and Masters (MBA) degrees, technically I have never passed Year 9 of High School. I switched schools (I was in danger of being kicked out!) and started at y10 at the new school, which commenced the school year in November.
2. I was born at Walsgrave Hospital , Coventry on the 26th December - Boxing Day. I emigrated with my family at the age of 6, arriving in Australia on 20th May 1977.
3. In my mid-late teens I fronted a hard rock / metal band. We played a couple of local gigs and parties, but inevitably we all went our separate ways. I still predominantly listen to Metal — faves being Sabbath (and Ozzy), Metallica, Zepplin, Dio and some local Melbourne stuff thrown in for good measure — although my tastes have matured somewhat with age. Eclectic is probably the best description.
4. I underwent a Gastric lavage procedure after a drug overdose at the age of 5. I had raided the medicine chest and taken a whole heap of aspirin. I also convinced my little brother (who was 3 at the time) to take them too, by crushing them into water. To this day, I still vividly remember the experience!
5. I experienced my fifteen (and only) minutes of fame on TV at the tender age of 12. I was a contestant on Family Feud (Daryl Somers was host). We stayed on for a couple of nights and won a couple of dodgy prizes. I’ve never lived it down. I just hope that it never ends up on YouTube!
I’ll need to give some more thought on who to tag seeing as tough Tony would have been one of my victims and he’s already tagged Pete - so watch this space. Ping me if you’d like to volunteer.
Update: No volunteers, so here are a few people I would love to know more about (some I don’t know at all!). Apologies if you feel like you’ve just been chain-mailed!:
Martin Gleesson, Micheal Specht, Ben Barren, Tejas Patel, Michael D. Pollock
