Over the last few months I’ve come to the frightening realisation that I don’t know that much. Shocking I know, considering that I make a decent salary, have a good life, and seem to be doing my job pretty well.
Golf lessons
A young woman had been taking golf lessons.
She had just started playing her first round of golf when she suffered a bee sting.
The unspoken rules of teaching
Over the last few months I've been giving a lot of thought, and doing quite a bit of research on how to best teach my children. Number one is already in school, and number 2's arrival is imminent…
I found quite a few good tips tonight on Twitter, by Kathy Sierra. Continue reading The unspoken rules of teaching
Only in Australia
A bloke's wife goes missing while diving off the West Australian coast.
He reports the event, searches fruitlessly and spends a terrible night wondering what could have happened to her.
HP2133 – First Impressions
My new HP2133 mini laptop was delivered yesterday, and so far I’m a very happy camper. It came with Windows Vista Basic installed, which I’ve kept on for now. I’ve also gone and installed a multi-boot system, and added Ubuntu 8.1 as well as Windows 7 beta as boot options.
Car manufacturers
Seth Godin has an interesting point of view on the bailout of the car manufacturers which I have to agree with. Our world is changing, and the way we do business is changing. I don't think we should be bailing out businesses that cannot keep up with the times. Yes, there will be large scale job losses, and it may impact the world economy in a very bad way.
Phil Haack @ PDC2008
I've just watched Phil Haack's talk on the MVC framework at PDC 2008. I can honestly say that I've learnt more in the 70 minutes watching the talk, than what I've learnt in the last few days reading tutorials etc.
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