I’ve been getting a little dark thematically with the last few posts. Thought I’d lighten things up by discussing one of my all time favourite movies. I watch The Last of the Mohicans every few months, because I get so much out of it as a viewer. I am devastated that I only discovered it relatively recently (it was made in 1992). That’s 20 years of prime viewing that I’ve missed. For those of you haven’t watched it, I am hopeful that this post will send you to your nearest library or DVD store so you can see why I make such
Continue reading...Brian Solis wrote an interesting article that popped up in my Reader this morning. The premise of his post is that businesses need to use social media to enhance the experience of their customers. One sentence resonated with me and it’s this: …the landscape for business isn’t changing because of social media, it’s changing because consumer expectations are evolving. Which brings me to the point of this post: businesses need to adapt and change the way they do business with consumers, because we are revolting. And we are revolting through social media. We are as mad as hell, and we
Continue reading...This is the fifth in a series of posts from hand-picked guest bloggers about trust. The idea was kicked off by me rewatching Game of Thrones and thinking about its twin themes of power and trust. My fifth guest blogger is Susan Cooper, who comes from the corporate world and who I first met on Triberr. When her job was eliminated, she found herself at odds with what to do next. Susan is now very happy being an artist, writer and blogger. Besides the fact that she tells really good stories, her biggest draw to her blog www.findingourwaynow.com would be
Continue reading...I’ve just completed another term at the Centre for Creative Photography, where we essentially looked at different genres. What I loved about this term was that I really nailed my style. I am a formalist. Simply put: I love lines. And I have a little of the urban landscape photographer in me as well. Check out my assessment portfolio (below) and you will see that I speak the truth. [gigya src=”http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=71649″ width=”450″ flashvars=”offsite=true&lang=en-us&page_show_url=/photos/dileeshus/sets/72157629297123748/show/&page_show_back_url=/photos/dileeshus/sets/72157629297123748/&set_id=72157629297123748&jump_to=” allowFullScreen=”true”] My tiny feet follow in the rather deep and broad footsteps of Lewis Baltz, John Pfahl, Joel Meyerowitz and Adelaide-based photographer, Mark Goddard. Mark was one
Continue reading...The other morning, I went to upload a draft to the Diane Lee Show via my iPhone 3GS. I tend to write my posts in AwesomeNote (on my iPhone on the bus to work, would you believe?) and then import them into the WordPress mobile app, save them as drafts, then edit on my laptop or desktop before uploading. But the upload failed. Twice. Hmmm. What’s that about? (Oh well, I thought, I’ll try again later. It’s probably an interwebz connection error thingy.) Later that day, I received an automated email from ifttt telling me that my WordPress settings needed
Continue reading...A few weeks ago, I went to my niece’s 21st birthday celebration at a local pub. My sister has, like me, raised her daughter solo, and had paid quite a significant sum to cater for a crowd of about 40. The guest list included (mostly) my niece’s friends, a few of my sister’s friends who knew my niece, and a couple of relatives. Only 10 people turned up. My sister was devastated for more reasons than one. Apparently my niece’s boyfriend didn’t go because he didn’t like one of my niece’s friends who was supposed to be attending. He needn’t
Continue reading...My review of Richard Fry’s The Ballad Of The Unbeatable Hearts for Adelaide Art Beat is up. You can access it here. I loved, loved, loved it. That is all.
Continue reading...This is the second Adelaide Fringe where I’ve been lucky enough to be a reviewer. Last year I saw some amazing drama through #TweetsforSeats, which was a PR initiative of CIT. This year, I’m doing the same sort of thing, but for Adelaide Art Beat. Tonight, I went to the launch of The Big Slapple, a cabaret slash comedy venue set up in Regattas Bistro in the Adelaide Convention Centre, located on the gorgeous Riverbank Precinct. It’s a tad difficult to write a review, given that it wasn’t really a show. What I will say is: finger food was fab
Continue reading...We live in a world that’s more connected than ever. Our voices are heard loud and clear; we can speak about any topic we like (or don’t) on any number of platforms. Our opinions and views are instantly global. Thanks to platforms like Twitter, Google+, Instagram and new kid on the block Pinterest, we can intersect with people all over the world and build relationships with them. A bit like instant pen pals, really. Take Twitter for example. I tweet regularly with people from the UK (@naturalgrump and @changecontinuum, I’m looking at you!). I found these wonderful people via timeline
Continue reading...Practically everyone’s read The Secret, right? In case you haven’t, it’s a book (and DVD), that was heavily publicised by Oprah five or six years ago. It worked on the premise that whatever you imagine and can articulate for your life, you will get. If you think and want for positive things, positive things will come into your life. Similarly, those who dwell on the negative will attract only negative things into their lives. You get the picture. While I quite like the thinking around this, I do believe it’s a flawed concept. In one sense it’s setting up people
Continue reading...(will insert picture later!) Yesterday, I was lucky enough to have my guest postpublished on Sukh Pabial’s Thinking About Learning blog. Sukh is a learning and development practitioner based in the UK. I know Sukh on Twitter as @naturalgrump and I stumbled across him when I was searching for learning and development professionals and thought leaders. Sukh and I tweet each other just about every day now, sometimes about learning and development, but most times not. The other day, Sukh kindly opened up his blog to guest bloggers to write about their biggest learning in life, and I put up
Continue reading...I broke up with Italian in winter of 2007, and I have not really seen him since, apart from a couple of isolated sightings early on when he deliberately crossed paths with me. Since he married, I haven’t seen him at all. In 2010, I moved back to the same government department where we first met, and he still works. I knew the chances of bumping into him were quite high, and I had a playlist of how I would react if I saw him. I always thought I would see him in one of the lifts, and steeled myself
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