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There's no I in team - work horror

I work for idiots. I may not have mentioned this, what with not having bothered to update this blog for months. It's not that I've been without content, but more...

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White Noise vs West Coast Eagles

A recurring theme of this blog is my ability to attract white noise. Those who have known me for any substantial period of time know this to be bang on...

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Age shall not weary them

A 62 year old man from northern NSW was recently arrested for growing a cannabis crop with an estimated street value of $3 million. It is not the growing of...

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Totally ballsed it up

The on-going saga of the Corby family never fails to provide good copy, and the current legal stoush between former friends Mercedes Corby and Jodie Power is certainly providing similar...

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The love/hate relationship of email

Email. My first love, and quite possibly the best invention ever, inclusive of when Mr Hershey figured out how to put peanut butter and chocolate together. Email really kicked off...

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Twittering fools?

Ok, again apologies for never bothering to update this thing. If any of you have stuck around, good work! I have no defence; I just never bother to think of...

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Organisational communication training: wanker alert

So, have spent all of today at complete and utter pointless wank fest of training day for "communications professionals". The name alone should have been a heads up to having...

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Send in the clowns

A circus clown gave up his seat for me on the tube this afternoon. Sadly this is not a euphemism, but a genuine record of the fact that a bloke...

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Guiding hands

I admit, it's been a while since I was last in a public library. The advent of eBay and Amazon meant the last time I was in a library looking...

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Another of life's mysteries

There are many things I simply don't understand about life. The inverse relationship between people who work in customer service and their desire to serve for example; why Adam Sandler...

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The first cut is the deepest

WITH the benefit of 20:20 hindsight, I can pinpoint the exact moment today when things went phut. Due to a looming manuscript deadline and a neighbour with a vast collection...

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Seeing orange

It was when I was told for the 25th time "we're sorry for this inconvenience this is causing you" as I again, reported a problem I'd been having since day...

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Media releases that get used and free newswires

I made a PR cry yesterday. Not internationally... well... maybe a bit intentionally. The PR had sent me a presser about subject X, in which she had said "40% of...

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Australia Post: where *all* the packages go first class

Twice in the last two weeks I have posted 'care packages' to mates living overseas. As a London resident for 4.5 years, I know all too well the ridiculous joy...

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Sydney protests bear bile farming

Bear bile farming will be drawn into the spotlight in Sydney as a group of animal activists protest the practice still rife in parts of South East Asia. Luke Sullivan...

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