Archive for the ‘Fun’ Category

Ricky Gervais to podcast

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 30, 2005
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The Guardian reports that Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, writers and stars of the UK comedy The Office, will be publishing a weekly podcast. Ricky …

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Peeping into Scott Adam’s window

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 28, 2005
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Scott Adams, of Dilbert fame, does make me laugh. He has a blog which is just as funny and insightful as his cartoons. Worth dropping …

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Whole of Government Innovation CoP

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 25, 2005
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Thanks to Elena (pictured here in a fetching Christmas hat) for organising the Christmas lunch today and Frank (or should I say Frank’s brother-in-law) for the …

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Who’s leading the stakes in the blogosphere? Women or Men?

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —November 6, 2005
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A recent profile on Women business bloggers only listed about 5 women business bloggers. I was sure there must be more, and I was also curious …

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Australian cartoonist

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 5, 2005
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We use cartoonists to illustrate archetypes as part of the sensemaking process. This is a fun activity which has the serious side of helping to …

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Unconferencing: How should we select our Keynote speakers?

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —November 1, 2005
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It seems to me that there is a growing dissatisfaction with the standard conference model of panel presenters and an audience full of possibility who …

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Storybook Moleskine

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —October 15, 2005
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I’m a lover of Moleskine notebooks. Perhaps it’s their history or their sturdy design. Whatever the attraction I always have my notebook handy. I see …

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Don’t Prepare – Just show up!

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —September 21, 2005
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A great little book which I’ve been working my way through lately is Improv Wisdom . There are some great wisdoms for life in this book, like …

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Getting to know Hunter S Thompson

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 14, 2005
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My first ‘real’ job had me helping a few really talented guys build a software system designed to book cars for our parliamentarians. Not all of …

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I remember using a contraption just like this

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —January 24, 2005
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My first ‘real’ job was working as a research assistance at the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies. We had a similar setup for our …

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