Ever seen something interesting or amusing or clever that someone made and you found on the internet, or wherever?  And you say “That person must have too much time on their hands”?
I say no!  Such arrogance, to dismiss someone’s creative efforts as the product of an idle mind!  That person more likely has plenty to [...]

INFP - “Questor”. High capacity for caring. Emotional face to the world. High sense of honor derived from internal values. 4.4% of total population.
Free Jung Personality Test (similar to Myers-Briggs/MBTI)

Living in a house full of gifted people, and working in IT as well, you forget that not everybody has these little things they have to do.  It’s not a debilitating case of OCD or anything, it’s not perfectionism, although it could be related to that too.  It’s just a certain discomfort when certain things [...]

We aren’t raving anti-immunisation loonies. Clearly, nobody is getting polio anymore, and deaths from smallpox or german measles are pretty rare in the western world. Sure, there are very very rare allergic reactions, but the number of deaths due to that versus the number of deaths and disablements due to the actual diseases [...]

Accoridng to an article on Lifehack.org, if you want to get rid of fat (as opposed to general weightloss and fitness), Mark McManus says cutting back on fat in your diet may not be the best approach.  A low fat diet usually means you make up some of the difference in carbs, and your body [...]

I meant to mention on Saturday that it was the Winter Solstice in Australia, aka the Shortest Day, when the sun is at its most Northerly point in the sky (relatively speaking -  it’s the tilt of the Earth that moves not the Sun of course).  This makes it the cold end of the year, [...]

I am a perfectionist, in the psychology sense of the word. It may not seem like it to the naked eye, but that’s mainly because perfectionists become dysfunctionally depressed and disorganised in situations where they can’t meet their own high expectations, i.e. when the standard you set is too high, you get completely overwhelmed [...]

You may remember the teddy bear helpdesk operator I’ve mentioned before.  After a conversation at work today, we’ve decided to promote him to level two support, and employ a frog to take our initial helpdesk calls.  We think this will be really successful, we’re expecting him to close between fifty and sixty percent of incidents [...]

You may have noticed that Telstra/Sensis don’t know how to design a website - Sensis sites are monstrous obscenities with terrible layout, which take upwards of a minute to load even on a 512K connection with a decent computer. AFL, NRL, and the White and Yellow Pages sites are all frustratingly slow, with animated ads [...]

If you are a maker of lists, or feel that you should be, you may find this comic amusing. It’s pinned up on no less than 10 different office walls at work.