Wow. I know I'm supposed to be annoyed at the additional tax, but I can't help but think that this new federal parental leave proposal is a Good Thing. Six months paid maternity leave at full salary? Sweet. And four
Thanks to the amazing Mr. Barker, I actually got to try one last night. (I also inflicted it upon my co-workers Kunaal and Tim.) It was... bacon-y. I'm not sure I enjoyed it. I feel like there was some sort
Good and Bad NewsThe good - actually GREAT - news is that I know I can run a half-marathon. I know this because I successfully ran 18.4km yesterday afternoon! (That's nearly 11.5 miles.) And at the end, I honestly felt
Well, it's a quarter to 11 and I'm still sitting here in my pajamas... which means I don't have enough time to get to the Obama photo thingy. *sigh* Although, really, I think I could do more net good for
These socks nearly killed me. After cruising along all summer averaging better than one pair of socks per month, these suckers took me more than two months to finally finish. The pattern is by Cookie A. (designer of the ubiquitous
The Knitting Fame-Whore strikes again!This past Friday I went to Newtown after work to join Bex and the goth knitters for a stitch and bitch. We were waiting for a journalist from JJJ Magazine to show up to photograph and
Remember our discussion about women taking their husband's surnames? In the US, a couple just successfully sued the state of California on the basis that it should be just as easy for a man to take his wife's surname upon
Vodaphone announces it's got the iPhone. As Snook just put it, "Tomorrow's news: Vodafone no longer able to sell iPhone due to leaking info to the press."
As you may be able to tell from the photos on my flickr site the canopy is essentially complete and has been for a whille. It is my lack of spare time and inspiration that has prevented me from finishing...
A couple of weeks back, me and a mate, Leon, packed up the ute and headedwest into the ranges for a night of camping and some hiking. We didn't get out of town til around 3pm so we didn't make...
If you think about it, what is the most important benefit of any corporate training or corporate coaching program? It is to affect behaviour change in some aspect of the business that requires improvement. It is about people doing things
This article explores the possibility of dependency in the executive coaching dynamic between the coach and his/her client. Often even though discouraged, executive coaches may give advice or have a strong bias of direction that creates a hidden reliance. So
I'm using Ubuntu here, but this would work on any Debian based distribution... I want to find out what packages are sucking up all the disk on my new laptop. So, I run:
I tend to have lots of ssh tunnels running with port forwarding on my laptop. The problem with that is that there are of course different host keys for localhost then. That makes me sad. Luckily, the following config option
