This long weekend, I’ve taken my wife’s suggestion and left the shaver in the drawer. I’m trying out life with a beard. Not much of a beard, yet, I hasten to add. At the moment it just looks like a severe case of non-designer stubble. I guess provided it doesn’t look too hideous tomorrow morning ... [More]
With a week to go until the Queensland elections, here’s my blatant unsolicited political opinion: Put Hanson’s One Nation last. Why? Why do I dislike her so much? It’s not so much her winning combination of complaining about how bad things are but not providing any practical suggestions for fixing anything… it’s not her downright ... [More]
It’s always a bit alarming when people I work with start reading my Web page (hi Rishi). So much for slagging them all off. Not that I would, of course, they’re all a superb bunch of people. Honest. A week or two ago the radio show I listen to on the way home, Martin Molloy ... [More]
Zowee. On Thursday night, I was watching Newsradio on Channel 10. I don’t usually watch it, so I’m not familiar with the characters or actors. I was trying to work out where I’d heard one of the actors’ voices before. Then I realised and said "Hi, I’m Troy McLure!" What’s this got to do with ... [More]
Oh sure… so just after I proclaim to the world my wish to be breathalised, L gets stopped and done. Yep, out driving last night, and just a few hundred metres from home, she found a booze bus. The way she told it, it sounded like a bit of an anti-climax. A big burly policewoman ... [More]
I often tell my friends about my quest for the perfect job. This is something we who do contracting can indulge in. Changing jobs every few months, seeing lots of new faces and new work environments means you can do that kind of thing. Compare job A to job B to job C. Okay, so ... [More]
It must be a curious phenomenon of the responsible newly licensed driver: I want to get breathalised. It’s not that I want to triumphantly avoid giving the cops a single chance to take my newly earned licence away by finding alcohol in my blood. It’s just part of the whole car experience, like driving over ... [More]
Junk mail Within two days of me writing all about the Who’s Who thingy, and their associated US$951 membership fee, well knock me down with a bulldozer, but what should arrive in the (analogue) mail? A letter from them again! Exactly the same as the first one, but with a later date! I guess I’m ... [More]
Yay, only 3 sleeps until the Paul Kelly concert! I’m seriously looking forward to this one. At last I seem to have found a musician who not only plays music I enjoy listening to, but writes songs I can really identify with. There’s a lot of music that I like, but most of it seems ... [More]
Networking – the people kind, not the computer kind – can be a real pain. I should point out here that I’m not going to offer you shares in some company you’ve never heard of. I’m not going to invite you to join in a pyramid scheme. And I’m not going to ask you to ... [More]
People who follow my diary regularly may be wondering why the entries in the last few weeks have been so few and far between. I’ve been wondering why too, and the conclusion I’ve come to is that my life is not as funny now as it sometimes has been. That’s not to say I’m not ... [More]
A pretty good first day at the new job… Small company, about 10 people. From the looks of it, no inter-departmental rivalry, no office politics, no stupid and unchangeable company policies. All very friendly people. Everybody goes home at 5:30 – they lock the place up. Got a desk, a chair, PC and software the ... [More]