When I was young, one of my favourite times of year was back to school. Yes, I know. FREAK. But the start of school meant virgin notebooks. I loved those pristine, lined pages and unscuffed notebook covers. Those first few days of school, my note-taking would be meticulously neat with the pen selection being paramount [...]

Friday night was a farewell for a fellow colleague at Plan B in Kings Cross. Feeling quite tired, I left around 9 to head home. I got all the way back to work and realised in my desire to travel light, I’d left my entry card in my purse. At my desk. In the office. [...]

I used to use a Facebook application called “My Aquarium”. Essentially you selected fish and other marine animals to gift to your Facebook friends. The other day I received an email from them that showed an … interesting and rather mystifying … about-face in business direction… We have decided to focus on something more exciting. [...]

We left work early today because the power went out. We have laptops and with a deadline tomorrow, I thought that by the time I got home, everything would be back on and I could continue to work. But no. The blackout remains, our servers are still down, and we may be in for a [...]

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

Me: Oh – new guy started this week. He came over this morning to introduce himself. he noticed my boxing gloves and asked me if I box or do boxercise Me: so i was telling him about how we do boxing and that we go to sweat box, which is cool because we also do [...]

Well before it gets too late in the year, I guess I should formalise my New Year’s resolutions: * Post more often – especially photos (I have some lovely ones of my nephews) * Get my finances in order – you know – a % to savings, a % more to super, charities etc. * [...]

Quite a while ago now, I read an article in the SMH announcing that the word “meh” had been chosen from terms suggested by the public for inclusion in the dictionary’s 30th anniversary edition, to be published next year. I was impressed to see that Canada was included in an example: “The Canadian election was [...]

Every Saturday morning I catch up on my RSS feeds. A couple weeks ago, I read “Thoughts I had before 7AM” written by Heather Armstrong (Dooce). In it she describes how she has a compulsion to hit the snooze button several times before giving in. This in itself is not all that unusual. I’m sure [...]

For weeks now, I’ve been wanting to get my creative juices flowing and write a great post and/or post some great photos. Well it’s obviously not happened so instead I’m going to post a very interesting piece of information sent me by my Mom this morning. Have you ever rented or borrowed a car and [...]