I interview a fair few people applying for jobs at Atlassian and more often than not candidates are making reference to various things I’ve posted here on this blog. While this is still a relatively new phenomenon for me it is not at all creepy. Yet most people I talk to seem to be almost …
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Where I’ve been and what I have been on
This last week has been amazing. The old adage still applies; I’ll let the picture tell the story.
My uvula is bigger than yours
A week ago the surgeons finally caught up with me and extracted my tonsils. I’ve been incapacitated by tonsillitis twice this year and my doctor believed that my tonsils, due to their huge size (tonsillar hypertrophy), were likely to be obstructing my breathing while I am asleep, resulting in a mild form of sleep apnoea. …
Fight the treachery
It would appear that last week Senator Helen Coonan introduced into parliament a bill aiming to grant new powers to the Australian Federal Police, allowing them to almost whimsically censor any Australian web site. Here’s a quote from an email sent out by Dale Clapperton, chairperson of Electronic Frontiers Australia: EFA is quite simply appalled …