Dec 21, 2008

Office Politics ... Get Me Out of Here!

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IT TOOK five months to crystallise my hatred for office politics. When I started work, it was something of a novelty, something to get used ...
Dec 7, 2008

Stupid Windows Mistake #1

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I MADE my first stupid Windows mistake since buying a brand-spanking new laptop a few months ago. It's been running like a dream so far....
Nov 30, 2008

Viva la Paz

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JUST saw Spanglish and loved it. Should've seen it a long time ago. Anyway. I'm in love with Paz Vega.
Nov 18, 2008

The Monash Letters #1

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I SET up my Gmail account in Microsoft Outlook recently for easy access and found myself going through old emails that I'd written to fa...
Nov 9, 2008

How Did He Get the Crazy Idea That He Could Win?

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THAT'S what I've been asking myself over and over again. Obama knew that he's special, but how did he decide to take on the inst...
Nov 6, 2008

The Skinny Kid With The Funny Name

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FEEL-GOOD exercise: Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_presidents . Then, scroll down the list of US presidents while reading each ...
Oct 26, 2008

Kids and School

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I NOTICE something strange every morning as I go to work. I see kids of pretty much every age steadily walk to school--braving traffic and c...
Oct 25, 2008

Alexander & W.

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WARNING: this post (probably) has spoilers for both movies. I'VE recently found myself borrowing a lot of movies from my local library...
Oct 19, 2008

Wrong Answer Every Time!

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Just found this awesomely hilarious joke. I think it's safe to say that with each question in the joke, I got the wrong answer every tim...
Oct 14, 2008

Where Do Classroom Essays Go to Die?

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I'VE always felt that I did a good job back in middle school with a few short stories, in essay form, that our English class had to writ...

GTDMail

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I REALISED after reading David Allen's Getting Things Done (well, most of it) that Gmail has been designed almost from the ground up to...
Oct 13, 2008

Thoughts on Immigration and Culture Clash

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FROM time to time I get to thinking about the difficulties people go through when they immigrate to countries, especially in the Western wor...
Oct 12, 2008

Some Credit Crunch Jokes

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From http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7659334.stm : Q: What is the definition of optimism? A: An investment banker ironing five s...
Sep 22, 2008

Credit Where Credit Is Due

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I'VE been converted to one of the credit-worshipping masses. Well, not so much worshipping as using. And desiring more of. The story is ...
Aug 26, 2008

Some New Stuff

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FIRST post from new laptop and the latest Windows Live Writer. Everything is shiny and new. Vista Home Premium is humming along with whateve...
Jul 10, 2008

The Entitlement to Being Able to Do Anything

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A LITTLE bit of a whimsical title to this post, couldn't really think of anything better on the spot. It's a rant anyway, so you...

Nine to Five

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FINALLY got an honest-to-goodness 40-hour-a-week job. I must be seriously out of shape, because it takes a lot out of me. Still getting used...
May 6, 2008

The Master and Margarita

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I STARTED writing a small review of this book on my Facebook `Books' application, but then realised I had a lot to say about it. And one...
Apr 30, 2008

Tabbing in Opera and Notepad++

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Notepad++ I'll get to Opera in a bit. It took a quick read-through of the source code (hurrah for open source), but I've finally got...

A Shoebox Budget

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A recent Lifehacker article gave me the idea of turning my formerly-useless Nokia phone box into a repository of all my receipts: This way ...