At the moment we’re in Brunei. There’s absolutely nothing here at the airport and we’re here for the next couple of hours. When we arrived here I was pretty pleased that everything had seemed to go really smoothly… And that was when I discovered I had stuffed-up the dates. Due to my own stupidity, I [...]
So after a late night of packing and repacking and then an early morning to get the train to the airport… We’re finally about to board for our Brunei leg of the journey. We also have stocked-up on liquor and perfume… So at least we’ll smell nice while we’re stumbling around trying to figure-out where [...]
In preparation for my trip, I’ve been playing with a few geeky tools so that I can do blog posts via email and mobile phone. If you’re reading this, it means that I’ve successfully managed to write a blog post directly from my mobile phone. Yay!!!
For the last few years I have been constantly hassled by a couple of my best mates about coming to visit them in the UK. I was planning on going about 4 years ago but then I started my web hosting business. This resulted in being on-call 7 days a week and often working 12+ [...]
Recently we’ve been watching a new show that airs on the ABC called The Gruen Transfer. Given my interest in marketing, it’s a fascinating look at how advertising works. The show is hosted by comedian Wil Anderson, surrounded by a panel of representatives from large advertising / marketing firms who then discuss various TV ads, [...]
I stumbled across this cool little site created by the New Zealand Book Council. http://www.readatwork.com/ The premise of the site is truly ingenious – they’ve made the page look like a standard Windows desktop with folders containing ‘what appear to be’ PowerPoint presentations when in fact, these faux presentations actually contain the text of classic [...]
As some of you may know, a while ago I stumbled across a Brisbane guy named Peter Laurent who was trying to rank for the keywords ‘Best Looking Man In Brisbane’. I thought that this was pretty funny and thought it would be fun to take the piss and rank for the term myself. After [...]
Last weekend (the one that happened 9 days ago… not yesterday) we had our house warming / Kristy’s birthday party and it was a really great night. The group consisted mainly of family and a few close friends which worked-out well because there was a reasonable amount of mingling (we feared that by having an [...]