Nigel James reflects on 20 years since he left school with an invitation to his 20 year reunion back in Australia. Yes I agree Nigel a 13 hour flight is shorter than 26, but when you are in the middle of a 9 hour flight anything over 2 hours makes you feel like a sardine!Continue reading “Reflection”
Author Archives: Michael Specht
Photowalking Hong Kong
I packed our digital camera for the trip up to Hong Kong, normally I don’t take a camera on business trips, not sure why just not something I have got into the habit of. This time with the camera I am planning to do a photowalk in Hong Kong on either Saturday 19th May orContinue reading “Photowalking Hong Kong”
On my way to Hong Kong
For the next 10 days I will be in Hong Kong, initially attending a week long residential leadership training course, then a day in our Hong Kong office. During this time things will be fairly busy so I won’t really be here, therefore I have decided to pre write a few posts on my flightContinue reading “On my way to Hong Kong”
Google searching trends
The Google Australia blog has an interesting post on the searching trends/patterns of Australians, the post provides some insight into what make Australian’s tick. The way we search is in some ways not surprising. Proportionally, Australians do the most searches for meat pies, Aussie Rules, sunshine, sunburn, sea change, air conditioning, beer, Torana, snake, waterContinue reading “Google searching trends”
Is the IT job marketplace expanding or contracting?
There are 3 related articles in this week’s Australian IT on the state of the IT job market in Australia. First up it seems since Easter IT jobs adverts have decreased across all IT sectors:- Olivier Group director Robert Olivier said vacancies in all IT&T job categories fell last month, with the exception of desktopContinue reading “Is the IT job marketplace expanding or contracting?”
links for 2007-05-05
online_communities.png (PNG Image, 1024×968 pixels) – Scaled (77%) A great map showing the different Web 2.0 tools (tags: communities humour SocialSoftware software) CSS Cheat Sheet Need to update your CSS file, here is a great cheat sheet (tags: CSS development XHTML) Sunday July 1st 2007: One Hour NO Power world no power hour 1st JulyContinue reading “links for 2007-05-05”
Interesting Letters
I Stumbled Upon a great rejection letter sent by a candidate who did not get the job they were applying for, who knows if it is true but is funny. Have a read of the full letter but the first paragraph cracked me up! Thank you for your letter of March 16. After careful consideration,Continue reading “Interesting Letters”
Australia Top 100 blogs, I’m in the list
A bit of self promotion here. The updated Top 100 Australian blogs is out and for some strange reason I have made #38 very surprised! Behind the likes of Ben Barren and Duncan Riley (no surprises there), but ahead of Trevor Cook #43, Frank Arrigo #89, WTF?? Must be a mistake in the calculations. I’mContinue reading “Australia Top 100 blogs, I’m in the list”
More on the sale of jobs.com.au
In an interesting turn of events in the sale of the jobs.com.au domain. The original post on the Now Hiring blog has been taken down, however the post is still available in Google’s cache. In an email from Brett Iredale this morning he indicated that the post was removed at the request of a coupleContinue reading “More on the sale of jobs.com.au”
$200K+ for a domain name?
The NowHiring blog is saying (UPDATE: Blog post has been removed, see next post for why) that the value of the offers for jobs.com.au are over $200K! I can confirm that yesterday we placed a last minute bid of $20,000 for the domain via an email to the administrators. They told me the bidding hadContinue reading “$200K+ for a domain name?”
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