And now for something completely different. I bought this bike about three years ago; it came with my ‘good’ Honda CX500. All good old motorbikes have nicknames – mine is The Ambo (on account of a white barn-door fairing it used to have). Now, Honda CX500s are fun animals. They started in about 1978 (this one’s …
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I was invited to facilitate a round-table discussion on effective social networking in the public sector for CPA Australia at their International Public Sector Convention on 21st February 2013. These notes derived from that session. I have formatted this discussion as an article, and it is available h here for download: 20130221 Roundtable Notes.pdf. Please feel …
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Consider this world of ours. It is very strange. Not just because it is big and blue, hanging in the inky depths of space like a bowling ball that forgot to fall to the ground. This world is also strange because of the people hanging precariously on that thin crust of a surface. Let us …
I am just preparing for tonight’s Rostrum meeting and decided to mention that pesky United States election thing. I found this discussion on Election, which as an avid follower of US politics I found interesting – and intriguing. As it is currently Tuesday in the United States (that whole time zone thing means it’s actually …
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And so today I am here to talk about work-life balance in your PhD. Work-life balance is one of the ‘seven deadly sins’ of academe. The PhD is the worst kind of study for work-life balance. More than any other form of study, the PhD requires hard work without direction and hard work without deadlines. …