Dad posted me the latest Quarterly Essay this week and I had some time to sit down and read through it this afternoon. I don’t normally get a chance to read these, although enjoy it when I do. I like the dedicated nature of it, where one author gets to write a long essay on [...]

As some of you may know, I have a younger brother. Nothing totally surprising about that. This weekend, Kerry is up in Brisbane playing in a Starcraft tournament. Of course, because he’s my brother I know nothing about the tournament or what it’s called, so I can’t link to it. I wanted to use this [...]

Today, I spent the day co-working at Vibewire. I was pleasantly surprised, because when I got there it turned out that Omar Samad and co had organised a Jelly there. I love heading along Jelly’s that take place and have not really made a great habit of it since moving to Sydney a couple of [...]

One of the most fantastic pieces of news came through this morning. Amit Gupta, of Photojojo and Jelly fame, has found a donor for the bone marrow transplant he needed to help him in his fight against Leukemia. I was really shaken when I read the news about Amit having Leukemia. I was on level [...]

At Railscamp on the weekend, we were surrounded by the beautiful area around Piccadilly. You can see some of the photos on my Flickr stream. One of the things that I noticed though, was the beautiful wetland on the lower end of the property we were on. It had the sign you see below on [...]

I spent the weekend Railscamp amongst a clan of engineers who write Ruby On Rails. It was a really enjoyable time and once again and I’d like to thank Sebastian, Keith and all the other people in the Ruby community who made it possible. During the weekend, we worked on a few various coding projects [...]

I’m at Railscamp, which is fairly exciting. One of the core things about this event is that there’s no Internet access provided. So, I’ll be taking a 2 day break from the blog. Enjoy your weekend and see you on Monday!

The internet is a pretty amazing place. Yesterday, after posting about the West Wing and the idea of Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc, Katy Stevens pinged back with a tweet that she was pretty close to writing slash/fan fiction. I haven’t really investigated fan fiction that much; I used to know someone who read the [...]

I was watching an episode of the West Wing the other day and was reminded of the saying “Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc.” The saying essentially means this: Post hoc ergo propter hoc, Latin for “after this, therefore because of this,” is a logical fallacy (of the questionable cause variety) that states, “Since that event [...]

I’ve been thinking lately about the concept of Commanders Intent, and why it’s an important concept to keep in mind when thinking about how you service your customers. None of this is new, but it’s one of those ‘always green’ concepts that I thought bore importance to mention again. Chip and Dan Heath explained the [...]