As I prepared to travel earlier this week, I was thinking how a few days at home really wasn’t enough. May is just a hugely busy month on both the work and personal life front and some days it seems like there is so much to do, I hardly make any progress. Wheels spinning. There … Continue reading
Last week I was back in Melbourne and in between catching up with my home life (playing with my little boy!), taking a breather from a brutal April travel schedule and trying to reconquer a mountain of unfinished work that tends to accumulate during travel, I made a trip down to Monash University to listen … Continue reading
This post begins what I have decided to affectionately call my “grumpy old man” series. Maybe I’m just a burnt out entrepreneur, maybe I’ve been a bit short on sleep in recent months, maybe as a GenX, I will never understand something that is blindingly obvious to a GenY – but I really don’t like … Continue reading
(Nictation = an involuntary eye “tic” … perhaps suggestive of excessive irritation or (and?) personality disorder) Let me tell you why. I recently wrote a BRW post on Australia’s Wired Future, where I pontificated about why I think Australia’s National Broadband Network (NBN) is kind of exciting – and even a little bit important. For … Continue reading
What happened in Boston this week is horrible. I can’t imagine a more pointless loss of life and it was one of those situations where the injuries were particularly psychologically heinous. Ripping the leg off someone who has worked hard to train for a marathon is just perverse – only we humans are capable of … Continue reading
I have watched the escalation of events on the Korean peninsula today with horror – plus I have been so busy the last couple of weeks I haven’t had the motivation to blog anything. But tonight I couldn’t sleep and writing this blog entry is possibly marginally healthier than taking a sleeping pill. Ever since … Continue reading
