Just a quick final post for the year. Firstly wishing all my readers a great break and a fantastic new year, be safe and make sure you spend time with your family. Now to look back on 2008. The year started with a bang working fulltime as Senior Project Manager for Nortel looking after CorporateContinue reading “The Closing of 2008”
Category Archives: Personal
Self Management & Inspecht Update
The last month to 6 weeks has been very busy, but I have to say I have not made a lot of progress in many different areas. Before we get to the challenges let me review the positive things from the last month. I started attending Jelly in Melbourne and have met some great folks.Continue reading “Self Management & Inspecht Update”
Poverty & depression
While today is Blue Day 2008, where the Australian tech & social media community are raising the awareness of depression & anxiety, we need to remember that we still live in a privileged part of the world. Most of us will never experience poverty in the real sense such as the way people in DarfurContinue reading “Poverty & depression”
Blue Day 2008
WARNING: A personal post. Just over a month ago I came up with a wild idea to do something to raise the awareness of depression and anxiety for Beyond Blue’s ADA month. How easy and simple things sound typing in the isolation of ones own computer! But before I look forward at what has takenContinue reading “Blue Day 2008”
Blue Day 2008
We are two days away from Blue Day 2008! What is Blue Day? Well it is a day to recognise depression and anxiety within society. So what can you do to get involved? Write a blog post about depression or anxiety, personal insights would be great Produce a podcast about depression or anxiety, as with theContinue reading “Blue Day 2008”
October is Anxiety and Depression Awareness Month
Yesterday afternoon I received an email from Beyond Blue an Australian not-for-profit that works to help people with depression and anxiety announcing that October was Anxiety and Depression Awareness month. The email was calling for people and organisations to get involved in raising awareness of anxiety and depression and help reduce the associated stigma. NowContinue reading “October is Anxiety and Depression Awareness Month”
Back on deck, well sort of…
After the week away in the snow we returned late last night following a 9.5 hour door to door travel activity. Returning to a pile of unopened mail, close to 300 emails to process, ie the ones you can’t just delete, a few phone calls, 1000’s of RSS items not to mention the unpacking, washing,Continue reading “Back on deck, well sort of…”
Away for a week
Regular readers will know that I disappear once a year for about 9 days to go on the annual ski trip, I am heading off today to Charlotte Pass for a few days of skiing and R&R. However this year is a little different in many ways. Firstly given my personal life changes it willContinue reading “Away for a week”
Inspecht is live & other interesting news
Another quick business update. After a week of getting logos and the like completed the site for my new venture is up and running. Where can it be found? http://inspecht.com.au, http://inspecht.com, http://in.specht.com.au and finally http://specht.com.au also redirects there as well. Right now the site is very basic and more just to get some content outContinue reading “Inspecht is live & other interesting news”
June 23rd is a big day!
Today is a big day! My final official day of employment with Nortel, which means my noticed period started 1 month ago. At 10:30am I meet with HR to hand back all of the “corporate items” and move on. It is 4 years since I wrote my first blog post. That is 1,460 days worthContinue reading “June 23rd is a big day!”
Michael Specht 