Having seen “One Man Star Wars” last year for my birthday, there seemed no better way to celebrate our wedding anniversary than by seeing the preview of “One Man Lord of the Rings”. If you’re wondering how this might work, you can see a brief series of clips. Essentially, actor Charles Ross, wearing overalls and …
Monthly Archives: November 2009
keep working on that marriage
A short series of ideas for keeping your marriage strong.
rethinking elders’ meetings
Elders’ Meetings that Do Something seems to have a very different view of eldership to anything I’ve heard of in Australia: it seems like an even tougher job – I can’t think of any volunteer role that would involve this kind of regular time commitment: can you? We find meeting for at least four hours …
what testing can teach you about email marketing
How to incorporate testing in your email-marketing.
Finding work/life balance
Despite the “seven steps” title of the post, these thoughts on finding work/life balance are worth considering. Are you productive for your whole work day, or is the work culture making you spend a bunch of time at your desk for the sake of it? Perhaps you could have a job that has a better …
trust your customers?
If you’re a fan of Douglas Adams, you’ll recognize this quote: it is part of a story of Ford Prefect having an experience quite similar to that of today’s food bloggers. The particular way in which he was choosing to dice recklessly with death today was by trying to pay for a drinks bill the …
Orson and Blake cafe, Surry Hills
Grinders coffee. 483 Riley St, Surry Hills. The cafe overlooks the furniture store; lots of natural light, and a series of furniture choices for the eat-in crowd. This is the real strength here: it’s a space with a lot of visual interest – you’ll want to spend some time here looking around if you can. …
the future of conferences
Have conferences jumped the shark? Perhaps the future of conferences lies not in opening them up further through real-time collaboration tools like twitter, but in having people switch off their laptops and phones, and being present in actual face-to-face collaborative sessions like the one details in this fast company article Fixing Conferences: Six Lessons From …
DVD: Ghost Town
DVD: Ghost Town The tagline of this film is he sees dead people… and they annoy him. It stars Ricky Gervais, who I’d always found the most painful part of watching the UK’s The Office, even if behind the scenes he was the architect of the whole show. As such, I had quite low expectations, …
Kash Cafe, Surry HIlls
Toby’s estate coffee. 424 Elizabeth St, Surry Hills. This little cafe has a slight disadvantage in location: away from the city, and with its street frontage largely hidden from the sight of pedestrians until they’re in front of the cafe. There’s lots to like about it, though: from the varied menus (at the moment, any …