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A few months back, the Inspire Foundation ran a campaign they called Man Week. Designed to call attention to the terrible loss occurring amongst young men dealing with depression and suicide (according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the current suicide rate for men in Australia is more than three times the rate of women) [...]
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G’day! Thanks for clicking the URL in my Twitter profile. Wondering what I’m all about? This pretty much covers it.
You can’t put much in your Twitter profile, but this special page, that’s only linked from my Twitter profile provides you with a little deeper understanding about what I’m about.
You’re now visiting acidlabs. It’s both my [...]
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My friend, Andrew Boyd, tagged me with the “8 things you didn’t know about me” task a little while back and this is the first opportunity I’ve had to tackle it. So here you go – my eight things.
I’m about to pitch a book idea. Fingers crossed! More about that if it progresses.
Alli and I [...]
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Last night, Alli and I watched Coach Carter, a “true life” film about a high school basketball team from a socioeconomically depressed area winning through and making more of themselves. Ken Carter, the coach of the team is an inspiring man, and like most films in the sports genre, this film is about achievement against [...]
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I’ve always been a fan of late-60’s and 70’s British rock – Deep Purple, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Cream, Blackmore’s Rainbow, that sort of thing. How stoked do you think I was to hear the soundtrack to School of Rock?
Anyhow, to get to the point. The past few days, my 8??-year-old daughter [...]
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This article, despite some of the bitchiness which creeps in (I think it’s tongue-in-cheek), is a frighteningly accurate description of me. Knowing some of the other developer/geek folks I know, it’s a pretty close picture of them too.
Have a read. Is it you?
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It’s doing the rounds among CFers, so here’s me:
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Oh, boy! I may have bitten off a tad more than I am presently equipped to chew.
Given my upcoming week off between finishing my current job and starting the new one, I’ve decided to have a stab at working on some code I’ve had sitting idle for quite some time. I’m about 18 [...]
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It’s been a big week for both Alli and me. After a long wait for a decision, Alli has been promoted into a senior role at her workplace, and I have accepted a job with SMS Management and Technology, a significant player in the professional services/consulting space here in Australia (plus NZ, Singapore and [...]
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