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ROI on MBA

Monday, July 21st, 2008

In 1993 I started on the road to a Masters in Business Administration. More commonly known as an MBA.
Completed in 2002, the MBA has given me a deeper understanding to theories driving business. MBAs are designed to provide a broad understanding of how organisations work. I found the most enlightening topics related to Legal studies [...]

The sad irony

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

The day the Microsoft announces this, RedHat goes and does this.
Has the world turned upside down?
Good news and Bad news Chris. You are on the radar screen.

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Waiting for the flickrPaparazzi

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

Thanks to those 8 people I don't know who voted for me. +1 to my Mum!
Lachlan, Ajay, Martin, Rene and Russ should really be ahead of me. Oh, and where is Mark Pesce?

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I To Do Therefore I Am?

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Personal organisational skills. I can not has. They left me some time ago.
Microsoft has released some research on the gender differences of To Do lists.
About 70% of people have a To Do list.
20% of males keep their To Do list in their head.
Mine is a combination of email (whatever is still in there needs to [...]

Parents: where are your kids now?

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

Parents have this little internal GPS that sorta- kinda- knows where their children are in physical space.
Why should it be different with online?
The excuse that "computers are too hard" and "the kids are far ahead of me" just doesn't wash anymore. This is like putting your kids on an unmarked bus to nowhere and hoping [...]

Lost in Microsoft

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

Up, to work. Parking easy as everyone is somewhere else. Frankarr on the internal TV system not doing LOLCATS. Speaking Shakespeare to promote TechEd. Even when Frankarr is not in the building, his Hamlet-ian ghost haunts us.
On way to desk, speak to Jeffa about his two way cool posts: Windows Server 2008 and the new [...]

Japan 2.0: No Shrines Needed in Hiroshima

Sunday, July 8th, 2007

 

Up at 6:00am to get ready for a long day. Osaka JR train to Osaka-shin. Catch the Shinkansen to Hiroshima via Shin-Kobe and other stations that mix together. The Hodge's almost broke the whole system by inserting our Suica cards into the wrong machines. Friendly JR staff kindly help us for gaijin out.
Just like [...]

What is your Geek Shed Project?

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

Growing up on a farm in country South Australia, I remember the smell of the work shed. The work shed is not where vehicles or animals were stored; it is where the welding, banging, fixing, wiring and general repairs were made. The smells of oil, grease, petrol, arc welding and seasons wafted out of the [...]

Scoble on Write-only Marketing

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

Robert Scoble, now earning a living dealing with PR people in the 'valley, understands the difficulty of blogging from within large organisations. Robert refers to one of the 4000-or-so bloggers at Microsoft: David Weller.
The best way to learn about an organisation, its plans and products is with a search engine. Marketing and product teams are absolutely scared witless [...]

Explaining to my Mum what I actually do

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

Having grown up on a farm, I saw what my Dad did every day. I saw it grow; and helped around. I learnt how to read clouds and the sky to determine the weather, and what the time was without a watch. From memory, at about 12 years old pretty much anything that could be [...]

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