Thursday, 27 November 2003

Rachel & Andrew have baby "Six Feet" Star Delivers! (E! Online). E! Online - Six Feet Under star Rachel Griffiths was on cloud nine after giving birth this weekend. [Yahoo! News - Most Viewed] Congratulations to Rachel and Andrew!! Welcome to parenthood! And Hello Baby Banjo [listening to: Special Ones - george ] 11:33:37 PM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • Family • My Friends

Making Your App Spider Friendly Hey Jim from OZBizWeb & Shopsafe - check out this article: Making Your App Spider Friendly. In this article we will cover using HTTPHandlers to intercept a request and change a directory path to query string parameters. Then we'll create a spider friendly link page so indexes can spider dynamically generated content pages. [ASP.NET Daily Articles] [listening to: Chiquitita - ABBA ] 11:12:28 PM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • My Profession

BlogPulse [BETA]: Automated Trend Discovery for Weblogs "BlogPulse mines for bursty phrases and person names instead of for the most popular ones. The most popular phrases and names change very slowly over time. The burstiest phrases and names are those whose frequency of occurrence has increased significantly over the past two weeks, often dramatically." COOL! [listening to: Blister In The Sun - Violent Femmes ] 10:38:52 PM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • My Interests • Random

iPod's 'dirty secret' wins Web fans Irked by the difficulty and expense of replacing the dead batteries in their iPod, two filmmakers have embarked on an 'antiadvertising' Net campaign. [more] [listening to: Julia - Chocolate Genius ] 10:29:04 PM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • My Interests

CBS News | The Strange World Of Web Celebs | November 20, 2003 19:40:52 I turned the TV on this morning and saw a segment on the "Today Show".  They ran a segment originally produced by CBS about the Star Wars Kid: A kid alone with a video camera waving a golfball retriever, like a Jedi warrior. A private moment of clumsy 10th grade innocence until four classmates put the tape on the Internet. Today, as CBS News Correspondent Bob McNamara reports, this 15-year-old small town Canadian is known to tens of millions planet-wide as the "Star Wars Kid."  [more] [listening to: (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear - Elvis Presley ] 10:17:46 PM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • Family • My Friends • My Hobbies • My Interests • My Organization • My Profession • Random • TV

It's quiet I've been going through my inbox and I have noticed that there isn't as much noise as normal. I was wondering why - and then it dawned on me -- Thanksgiving We need some dancing turkeys to celebrate! [listening to: Holiday - Madonna ] 10:05:22 PM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • My Organization • Random

Sify.com: "the .NET Evangelist." I worked for Sanjay back in 1994 & 1995 during the heady pre-dotcom, interactive tv days. He was a great boss and a good friend to me. After all these years, he is still a very approachable dude who returns my emails. [listening to: What Kind of Fool Am I? - Anthony Newley ] 9:53:20 PM    comment []  trackback []     • My Friends • My Organization

Logies: a very Kerry affair Australia's richest man Kerry Packer has won the latest legal stoush with rival media mogul Kerry Stokes over television's night of nights, the Logies. more What a surprise. [listening to: Without Me - eminem ] 9:38:35 PM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • TV

Cam Reilly liked my session! I'm delighted to read that Cam Reilly liked my session at the partner conference! Thx mate. I hope you are inspired and can spread the word that Microsoft really wants to help make ISVs be successful. [listening to: New Technology - Waikiki ] 8:53:30 PM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • My Friends • My Organization

Bullying I've been dealing with a incident that has happened to my family this week. It relates to a serious problem that is rife within our schools - bullying. My son Antony has Asperger's Syndrome. As a result, he is a constant target for the bullys at his school. The scenario is always the same - these boys taunt him to the point that he cracks and retaliates. The retaliation is always exaggerated, which causes the overall situation to escalate and the outcome is pretty predicatable - parents are called, boys are chastised, teachers shrug their sholders , principals turn a blind eye and the bullys live to taunt another day. Not good. This week it got ugly. I am not able to go into details, as I suspect there may be legal implications - but bottom line the bullys continue to get away with their behaviour and their victims continue to suffer. And the school pretends as if it isn't happening. And to top it all off, the parents of the bullys are blissfully ignorant of the fact that their little precious are actually ugly bullys.  This is the real shame of it all. Maybe websites like these can help: Bullying, No Way! anti-bullying Bully Busters Dealing with Bullying Addressing Bullying Behaviour Beyond Bullying Bully Sandpit But what I see in these websites is that this is a REAL Problem. It's been around for a long time and there doesnt seem to be any light at the end of the tunnel. I would much prefer writing stuff like this that's my boy!, than speaking out about bullys, but it's gotta stop. [listening to: rave goodbye - Paul Mac ] 8:42:05 PM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • Family

Travel to Melbourne The final leg of my journey - I'm heading down to Melbourne to catch up with my team and spread some more love. The journey didn't start so well -- we sat on the runway at Coolangatta airport for over 30 minutes, as the Qantas staff frantically searched for a passenger that had not boarded. They did a head count, went through all the luggage and then finally realized that their list was wrong! There was no missing passenger! So we finally left, late. Time now to catch up on email [listening to: Albuquerque - Weird Al Yankovic ] 8:21:49 PM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • My Organization

End of Partner Conference The last day of the partner conference has come & gone. It was a busy for me - this time I was working on one of the exhibition booths, as well as my regular 'swanning' around. I got to chat with another bunch of partners, such as managed business outcomes, expert is, ozbizweb, excom & oxon data systems. I spoke to many, many more people, but I didnt grab their cards and cant remember them at the moment.. I also had a series of "chats" with some journos - James Pearce from ZDNET and Fleur Doidge from CRN. I also had a session with 2 great guys from Meta Group. Each of these chats were fun and I'm sure I said stuff I shouldnt - oh well c'est la vie. The evening then wrapped up with the Gala Dinner, which included a number of partner awards. Two ISVs did really well - Brookstone, won 2 awards and Wireless IP won 3. Good to see these guys doing well! Then we danced. The band was The Gotham City Horns. And they played their standard repertoire  You can hear some of their music on their download page. The lead singer thought he was Ricky Martin! After the dancing and the singing and the awards, the party moved to the bar. A late night was had by all [listening to: I Will Survive - Gotham City Horns ] 8:15:40 PM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • My Organization

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