Jul 24 2007

Touch Down at the Gold Coast

10:20am this morning — touch down at the Coolangatta Airport. Welcome to the sunny Queensland. Vivian, Anna, Elsie and I will be here for a week of holiday, and will be back to Sydney next week. Oh. Holiday + Wifi connection at home = very good :)

Jul 10 2007

When Sickness Strikes

On my bed side table there are two DVDs from Bigpond Movies — Casino Royal and The Dreamers. Got them through this deal where you can get two months Bigpond Movies trial for free, but that’s besides the point. They have been sitting there unwatched for more than half a week. Why? Anna has been [...]

Jul 9 2007

Pownced

Big thanks to Teresa at The Freebie Blog who sent me an invite to Pownce, the Twitter-killer web application that was created by none other than Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg.com. Signing up is a breeze — clicking on the link from the invitation email, choose a username, password, fill up a few more [...]

Jul 2 2007

Needing Experience is a Vicious Circle

Just read this read feedback in this month’s CPA In the Black magazine: I have been looking for a position as a graduate accountant for more than six months, and have been seeing employers who demand experience in an accounting practice. Experience, that’s all they want. Do they not consider other values? We need to [...]

Melbourne

Got back from Melbourne on Saturday night but only managed to write about it today. It was my first visit to the capital of Victoria that was not work-related. I used to just fly down there, taxi’ed to the office in CBD, taxi’ed back to the airport and fly back. My two days stay last [...]