A Halloween Story

Halloween is not a big deal in Australia although retailers would like it to be - anything to make more money.  There are more costumes and Halloween themed treats in the stores than there used to be but still nothing like the US.  I’ve visited the US at Halloween and I thought it was awesome!  [...]

Why is IT recruitment so bad?

My current contract is coming towards its natural conclusion which means I’m about to be blessed with that most joyous of experiences – dealing with recruitment agencies. I’m not a huge fan of recruitment agencies but I don’t have a huge amount of choice. For whatever reason, the Australian IT market seems to regard recruiters [...]

Hollywood calling

In the news this week was one of the big Hollywood agencies, United Talent Agency, forming a division specifically to find online talent.  You might think I’d get excited by this news but I’m not holding my breath.  Here’s a video explaining why:

Mind you, as cynical as I am, I’ll still take pretty much any [...]

Some video help from my other half

I’ve been getting a little bit of help making videos this week from the delightful Ms Angry.  Maybe she was jealous of the little angries hogging all the limelight - in any case, she helps me out in the following two videos.  It would be possible to draw the inference from watching these videos that [...]

Some random workplace observations

A few things I have noticed recently at work:
1. People talk shit. I’m not just talking about the standard “how about this weather?” shit - a disturbingly high proportion of people seem to have a pathological need to say insanely fucking stupid things. I’ve complained before about people making a big scene when I drink [...]

Using a foreskin blog to sell Google juice

One thing I never expected when I started this blog was to appear very highly in an Google rankings.  That’s supposed to be hard to do, right?  I started getting my first search engine referrals after maintaining the blog for a couple of months but they were always for pretty obscure things.  It started getting [...]

Fun with traffic accidents

There was a car accident just in front of me on the way to work this morning.  Not too serious fortunately - I’d hate to see a major pile-up with fatalities.  Despite appearances to the contrary, I actually have a rather low tolerance for suffering being inflicted on other people.  It’s higher than my tolerance [...]

Chris Masters outs Alan Jones - He’s a classic bully

For those who don’t like to read, jump straight to the video at the end of this piece, it essentially covers the same territory. 
Remember how your mum used to always tell you that bullies were really cowards and if you stood up to them they’d run away?  Well, I’ve been beaten up by enough bullies [...]

When is workplace discretion the better part of valour?

Here’s the most common question a Business Analyst (BA) is ever asked: “What does a BA do?” my standard answer is “It depends who’s employing me and what stage a project is at.” A slightly better explanation of what I do is a combination of translator and problem solver. The idea is that I understand [...]

Some old school angry behaviour

This video is my post to The Blogging Times for this week.  I think this is the angriest I’ve been in a video for a while - it was easy to get angry given the subject matter.  Some moronic judge thinks he has the right to pass a sweeping judgement against anti-spam outfit Spamhaus including [...]