Mick's World Tour

Moving!

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I'm moving my blog to wordpress and a new domain name.

Fun.

Come see me here

Mick Dans Le Cafe

Mick Dans Le Cafe
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Sometimes I work in Toby's Estate Cafe across the road.

$3.50 for a nice tea and some good ambiance and a change of environment.

Cheapest office rental in town.

No wifi though.

I need a new mobile phone

I'm watching the Mobile World Congress to see if any new phones come out.

I'm on a HTC, but I'm thinking of going back to Nokia. They seem to have some exciting stuff coming out;

Wild Kids

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Originally uploaded by Lube's Life

My younger bro is pretty wild, at least as compared to me, and even more compared to our older bro.

But he's never gone this crazy.

Actually, I don't think it's that bad. Surely there has been lots of big parties where things get trashed. Just cause the kid put it on myspace and has some tude' doesn't make it big news.

But that's news hey? Sometimes news makes things interesting...

Hammertime = Laughtime

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Originally uploaded by Afroswede

I like it.

So simple, so beautiful.

Woahhooooahoo,

Electronic Banking In Monopoly and Future Game Upgrade Ideas

dStore - Buy Games & Puzzles online
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You can now get Monopoly with electronic banking. I agree with Dallas that it should never need upgrading. I don't mind the special ones like Australia or Star Wars but keep it simple has to apply here.

I liked recently how Laughing Squid covered Dungeons and Dragons. I think Warcraft is great but the magic of the imagination is lost on it.

Some other upgrades that never should happen:

1. Hungry Genetically Modified Live Hippos - the growling is great, but cleaning up the poop is just tedious.

2. Nuclear Kerplunk - it really adds to the pressure.

3. Community House Jenga - build for the needy, just hope it stays up.

4. Operation Live! - a game you can play with your grandma - it's safer...

5. Massively Multiplayer Scrabble - 50,000 squares and 1 tile each.

Any more?

Rubinstein?

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when I right clicked on my surname in Firefox since it was shown as a missspelled word, it gave me these options.

Chelyabinsk?
Rubinstein's?

How did that get through????

Micky Christmas!

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Originally uploaded by bigmick

Year in summary/summery;

* 2007? No way!
* Georges 30th. Brawling with Alisdair Faulkner
* Proposing clumsily to KC and she says Yes nonetheless.
* Emilie and Derek's wedding.
* Kate and Nath's wedding and my speech.
* Launching Tangler public beta in San Francisco at web Expo.
* New York with KC and having a ball. Felicity, Erinn, George Bush.
* Mark and Fiona's wedding.
* More trips back to San Francisco. Staying with the the Cooks.
* KC get's into facebook...
* Sam and Inessa's wedding in the Hunter Valley.
* One more trip to the states... and laps of Sandhill.
* Caine and Jess's wedding on the coast and me as MC MiCk
* Bucks weekend and Phil breaks his leg when Ryan lands on him.
* MY WEDDING - wooohoooo!
* Our honeymoon in Thailand - Yeaaaaah!
* Tangler with sexy new version.
* Christmasy time.
* Writing a blog entry about the year..... yup, that's it.

What do you think the major theme was?

And what's coming in 2008...

* 2008? No way!

:-)

See you on the otherside.

Merry Happy Everyone!

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Have fun!

See you in 2008...

Implicit Association Test

Implicit Association Test
Originally uploaded by bigmick

Check out this test. It's to find out about your unconscious associations.

Implicity Association Test

I read about it in a book by Malcolm Gladwell called Blink.

Omnidrive Story Coming Out

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Richard McManus wrote a story which is unfolding the Omnidrive events of 2007.

Nik Cubriolvic, the CEO of Omnidrive, has responded but no one is supporting his side of the story. Who was the VC that he turned down? Why did everyone leave?

I'm going to keep watching this one to see if all the truth comes out.

Facebook removes the IS from the status.

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Originally uploaded by bigmick

Wow, just noticed Facebook removed the "is" from the front of the status in their profiles.

Big news. Small, but big.

Thailand

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Went to Thailand for our honeymoon. Awesome fun.

Click this pic to see some more.

Highlights;
* Scooter riding.
* King prawn massamam and other great foods.
* 80c beers
* $10 massages
* $100 suits.
* Having fun with my new wife.
* Thai boxing, for the spectacle, not the violence.

Got Hitched?

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Originally uploaded by bigmick

Yup, hitched well and good.

Great day. Thanks to all for your support and to Karen to saying yes.

How To Eat Cake

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without blowing out the candle

Mick's Bowling

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Nice little Mick reference in South Park I noticed.

"Mick's Lanes"

I wouldn't mind opening a bowling alley one day, but it would have to be with indoor mini-golf too.

Geek is Good

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Originally uploaded by Yodster

My fiancee and her friend were talking last night about geeks and how some of our friends have geek partners.

"Don't worry, you can change them." said one girl.

Well, if we go with the Lachlan Hardy definition of a geek being a nerd with social skills, I think they have a lot going for them.

Their educated.

Their normally earning good money.

They are good with their hands.

They can fix electrical things and program the DVD player.

They know what's going on in the world.


To geek is good.

Sydney Festival Launch

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Last night I went to the (potentially boring) launch of the Sydney Festival program. We were invited because we are a key parts of the arts community in Sydney. OK, really, Karen won free tickets.

It was at Sydney Opera House and we got free champers as we arrived. Nice.

Then we went into the concert hall and were seated. I sighed and thought we'd have an hour of speeches. Then we were treated by Kev Karody and Emma Donovan singing From Little Things Big Things Grow - one of my favourite songs. I was happy.

Watch a cool version here;
From Little Things, Big Things Grow by Kev, Paul Kelly and John Butler

After that we had an intro from the Aboriginal Land Council who controversially said "Our motto is "This is our land - always was, always will be"

Then Clover Moore, the Mayor and Sydney State Government rep. She's nice!

Then Frank Sator, the old Mayor....

Then the program director who told us about the program. Pretty cool. Some big stuff, and lots of free events. A really big launch night where the city is going to go crazy, including weddings on Macquarie St.

My highlights;
* Black Watch - scottish theatre.
* Spiegeltent - funky dance.
* Salsa in Hyde Park.
* Paul Kelly and Missy Higgins.

More info here;
Sydney Festival 2008

(notice that the first night logo looks a bit like the pieces off the Tangler shirt. See this pic on right....)

Regnan and Australian Future Leadership

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Through an old colleague and friend of mine I came across Regnan. It's a new Australian outfit, with some fat-wallet backers, aiming to change the way investment bankers look at Australian companies.

The investment bankers aren't doing anything wrong, they just aren't doing enough. They are evaluating investments based on old world accounting principles and not accounting for today or the next 100 years.

Now you might say that the next 100 years is too long away, but when half of these companies are investing in superannuation (or pension investments) then you start to realise that they at least need to be thinking about the next 30 years (for me) and 50 years (for my children (to be)).

So their goal, from what I understand, it so do research and support on behalf of large investment firms to help them more accurately evaluate companies they are investing in. This puts flow on pressure onto the companies to make sure they aren't just brining in the cash, but are thinking about their long term thinking too.

As a bonus, this may encourage and foster long term thinking across the board in business, political and personal spheres in Australia and the world, which is a good thing.


Some recent coverage including Regnan;
The Age - Safer Companies Outperform
Financial Standard - The $10 Million dollar sustainable punt

No Cheryl, I don't Want to Be Your Friend

Inbox — Tangler Gmail Mick (19 messages, 6 unread)
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I got this spam today.

Look at the fine print.

"Please respond or Cheryl might think you said no?"

Well Cheryl, I hate to be the one to tell you, but no is one of the main options.

Yup, it's a no.

And Yaari - it's a no too. Bye byee.