It has been an interesting week for Australian celebrities, first Steve Irwin and now Peter Brock! It seems Peter Brock was killed in an accident while driving in the West Australian Targa Rally, his car hit a tree about 40 kms east of Perth. One of the great legends of motor sport in Australia.
Author Archives: Michael Specht
Online Job Ads continue to rise
It seems online jobs ads are still on the rise in Australia. The latest online job ad figures were released yesterday and they have increased again for the 8th month in a row. Bob Olivier, Director of Olivier Group is quoted at saying :- “The rate of increase can’t be sustained forever, so we’ve actually seenContinue reading “Online Job Ads continue to rise”
Croc Hunter Steve Irwin died
It is sad that Steve Irwin died yesterday his family, his animals and the environment will all be impacted by his passing. Steve died while filming a documentary on the deadliest animals in the sea, ironic in a morbid kind of way. Apparently he had no chance of surviving the sting ray puncture to hisContinue reading “Croc Hunter Steve Irwin died”
Are we in an echo chamber?
An issue facing the tech blogosphere is that many people both internal and external to it claim that the blogosphere is just an echo chamber and nothing new comes out. From my limited view point I do not think that the HR blogosphere is an echo chamber, sometimes I feel that we need to linkContinue reading “Are we in an echo chamber?”
What is a good presentation?
I subscribe to Presentation Zen to find the latest and greatest trends in presentations. Some of the presentations they reference are fantastic others I don’t really relate to but I still stay subscribed. So today when I saw a couple of people referring to the Top 10 Presentations I was interested. KnowHR have pulled togetherContinue reading “What is a good presentation?”
Viewing blogs on mobile devices
There has been a bit of talk recently about viewing blogs on mobile devices. Dave Winer has even built a tool to help out. Personally I don’t tend to use a mobile device to view anything, the costs are just too prohibitive here in Australia. However I do think the idea is very cool andContinue reading “Viewing blogs on mobile devices”
Find It in Pre-Beta
Trevor Cook dropped me a note today saying that a new classifieds service has gone into pre-Beta in Australia. The service is FindIt. One the surface it is a classifieds tool just like CraigsList, Google Base and many others. The scope compared to other Australian services is different, FindIt has categories covering Jobs, Real Estate,Continue reading “Find It in Pre-Beta”
Blog name
I am in search of a new name for my blog. Kevin feels I should keep the old one I do see his point but I am still going to change it. For now I am looking at calling the blog “Wabi Sabi” a Japanese term which roughly acknowledges three simple ideas nothing lasts, nothingContinue reading “Blog name”
Using Google Calendar
I recently upgraded the version of Norton Internet Security I have running at home, this has meant that I can now use Google’s Calendar on my home PC. Now I am looking into how to use Google Calendar for our household calendar. My vision, if you call it that, is to have a family calendarContinue reading “Using Google Calendar”
Live Writer Post Publishing Solution
It seems that version V2.5 of the Google Site Maps plugin was causing the issues. Once disabled, Live Writer works as expected. Now trying V3 Beta of Google Site Maps and see if it behaves with Live Writer (or the other way around), hence the multiple posts :-). Update: Yes the v3 Beta does work!
Michael Specht 