http://facibusreviews.com/blog Andrew Boyd reviews life, design, and Shiraz Wed, 07 May 2008 10:46:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Look at this face. Man, when that cat gets out of that pool, someone is going to be in a world of pain :) http://facibusreviews.com/blog/2008/05/07/you-think-you-are-having-a-bad-day/ What do you think? :) http://facibusreviews.com/blog/2008/04/27/google-search-having-a-bad-day/ History records that I wrote my first post here on 05 April 2007. My world was a different place then - more certain, more settled, more known. Since then I've had a lot of ups and downs, met a lot of good people, shared a lot of myself online, written hundreds ... http://facibusreviews.com/blog/2008/04/04/happy-blogiversary-facibus-reviews/ This is my friend Nathanael Boehm discussing the Meraki wireless sharing hardware system at Wireless Australia yesterday (2 April 2008). Nathanael is a social entrepreneur who wants to bring free wireless internet access to all Australians - and there are a lot of people who are interested in helping him. More ... http://facibusreviews.com/blog/2008/04/03/freeing-the-bandwidth/ In Meatball Sundae, Seth Godin writes about dining critic Joanne Kates: One of my dearest friends is Joanne Kates, the restaurant critic for The Globe and Mail, the most important newspaper in Toronto. Joanne carries a credit card with someone else's name on it (I promised I wouldn't say who). Despite ... http://facibusreviews.com/blog/2008/03/23/everyones-a-critic/ Greg Knauss discusses Richard Dawkins' views on two opposing worldviews or magisteriums - that of science and that of religion. Basically, Dawkins holds that nothing lies outside the realm of science - that the nature of Deity and faith can be discussed scientifically. Dawkins mentions a third Magisterium - that of ... http://facibusreviews.com/blog/2007/11/20/the-realm-of-stupidity/ It's official: Amazon.com says that Aussie breakfast spread Vegemite tastes like crap!   Try this for yourself - go to Amazon and do a search on Vegemite. Look at the second search result - that's right, it is a book called What's Your Poo Telling You? Australia should send a nasty letter ... http://facibusreviews.com/blog/2007/11/17/amazon-says-vegemite-tastes-like-crap/ There is evidence to suggest that some firms are hiring the wrong people - they look for those that are good at interviewing but not necessarily performing. Once upon a time there was a man named John Holmes - not the bloke with the big shlong, the other one - the ... http://facibusreviews.com/blog/2007/09/17/hiring-mongrel-dogs/ Craig commented on my Big Brother Law post: A couple of questions; do you wonder just how deeply Coonan is connected with the issues of modern communication networks? (I know I do.) Do you wonder why legislation like this is proposed when there is already sufficuent legislation in place to deal with these ... http://facibusreviews.com/blog/2007/09/15/what-is-important/ Oz-IA is Australia's Information Architecture conference. I got to present at Oz-IA last year with my colleague and friend Stephen Hall. It was great to meet a lot of other Information Architects, Knowledge Managers and interested people from Australia and around the world. Oz-IA is on again on 21-22 September. Eric Scheid, the ... http://facibusreviews.com/blog/2007/08/30/off-to-oz-ia/