As One Sydney YouTube gathering November 24th

Well, when we announced the As One Melbourne gathering for YouTube users, viewers, aficionados and people who just wanted to look at the freakshow, a common reaction was “Why not in Sydney?”  Simple really, we don’t live in Sydney.  This sort of thing is hard enough to organise where you live.  Trying to set something [...]

Unnecessary instructions

I believe I’ve made my views known before regarding people with OCD-like tendencies about cleanliness.  The short version is: they’re freaks.  The slightly longer version is you can be arguably correct about a topic (e.g. many surfaces are covered in germs) and still be a weirdo freak about it.
I bring this up because someone at [...]

Fun ways to break a drought

Things are looking pretty shit in Australia, drought-wise.  We’re supposed to get most of our rain in Spring (which is now).  It didn’t happen at all last year and it’s looking disturbingly like it isn’t going to happen this year.  Most of the country has been facing drought conditions for more than 10 years now [...]

Ways you can tell I’m leaving my current job #1

In a meeting discussing some technical issues about database integration one cow-orker said to another cow-orker:
“You’re trying to force things into the back end.”
I couldn’t resist and responded:
“That’s what your mum said,” and burst out laughing.

Memo to a filthy beast

I’m really glad nobody at work reads my blog.  Even if I managed to avoid getting fired for it, nobody would talk to me for fear of appearing in a blog post.  If my blog was circulated around work, I’d particularly like it to reach a particular individual whose identity I don’t know.  I’ll explain [...]

World Record Group LiveBlogging – December 1st

So another brainwave from SeanBedlam for the Melbourne As One YouTube gathering is aiming for a world record for the largest number of people liveblogging from the same event.  There is some finetuning to be done, like defining how to measure the record.  I’ve never heard of anyone claiming this record before so I think [...]

Australian YouTube Gathering – As One Melbourne December 1st

So I can finally go public with my other big news.  Along with notorious YouTuber SeanBedlam (AKA Sean Burke) and my good friend Adrian Calear, I have been involved in organising the first big YouTube gathering in Australia.  We are having a gathering in Melbourne on Saturday, December 1st.
Our original plan (and the one I [...]

Give me a straight answer!

In case you thought I’d gone all soft from getting such good news about the New York deal:
I CAN’T FUCKING STAND IT WHEN PEOPLE WON’T GIVE A STRAIGHT ANSWER!
The same shit happens in personal relationships and work relationships.  You ask a straight question and you don’t get a straight answer.  Or you ask a simple [...]

Mr Angry to take Manhattan?

The New York deal is looking good.
I want to take a moment to thank everyone for all the positive responses to my post from yesterday.  It’s obviously exciting to me that I might get to go on US network TV but it’s also really gratifying to get such a show of support from everyone.  And [...]

Holy Fucking Shit

It looks like I might be going to New York.
I mentioned in a previous post that although some negative things had happened to me recently I wasn’t sinking into depression because of the good things happening in my life.  I woke up to an email this morning that blew me away. 
It seems that somebody working for [...]