Recently a friend of mine advertised for a personal assistant on Linked In. The ad is shown here  – As you can see the position calls for skills, experience and all round cleverness in the applicant wonderful enough to succeed. Dean had over 300 applications and in the end awarded the position to Lindy Waldeck, who I know and know she is the perfect person for the task. Dean did forward to me one application [...]

An interesting article from news.com.au. David Southwell offers a reply (“Not enjoying the cynic view of disasters”) to Sydney Morning Herald journo Ross Gittins’ story titled “The punters love a good disaster“. In short we, the audience are entertained by media coverage of disasters, natural or otherwise in the same was we are entertained by horror films or teary eyed romantic dramas.

I remember Christain Bale in The Empire of the Sun, one of my favourite films. A child actor, he grew up to star in some recently brilliant films. Batman Begins and the Dark Knight are just some. On the set of Teminator: Salvation, the 4th installment of the SciFi franchise, he had a little encounter with the Director of Photography who walked into his scene to adjust some lighting. The leaked audio has made the [...]

I am now the proud parent of an adopted word. “Icasm” means figurative expression, as in “The President’s address was full of icasm, which probably means he didn’t understand it either” (written when Bush was in office I guess). You too can adopt a word at savethewords.org. The website is a fully interactive flash site where you browse a wall full of words I bet you didn’t use in your last office presentation or family [...]