What do you do if you feel you lack time when it comes to learning all the things you want to learn? Do it all in the one go. Find things that build upon each other. For example, I’m new to golf. And I’m a left handed golfer at that. Golf is a backwards sport. […]
Morning Jaunt Around Swinburne University
During the covid lockdowns (all 263 days of them ?), we were under certain restrictions. One of which we could only travel 5km of our home. This started a new habit of mine to take excursions in my local area and in so doing, I discovered new parks, places of interest, history, shops, artworks and […]
Why I Left Social Media
I decided to share my thoughts via video on this one.
Need to Run Training But Be Elsewhere At Same Time?
I’ve been running some Yammer 101 training sessions for our company at different times of the day and night to cater for our overseas colleagues. These are ‘open’ sessions for anyone to join so it’s always a surprise to see who joins me to have a bit of a chat and also get to know […]
When There’s No Community, Mutiny
This was what a colleague had accidentally said when he got tongue tied talking about community during one team meeting and we all rolled around in laughter. Little did he know that sometimes, you need to prod to get a reaction in a community. A Like, A Follow, A Share, Something, Anything…. Is there anyone […]
Update on LinkedIn: Stay or Go?
It’s been 2 weeks since I deleted Twitter. Do I miss it? Not at all! Facebook is now permanently deleted too. That is, I didn’t post anything in it for over a year now but I just decided to bite the bullet and permanently delete the accounts once and for all and become social media […]
My French Update
There’s a crêperie nearby that serves these French crepes and galettes made with buck wheat that employs French speakers so you can be guaranteed to hear French being spoken every time you go there. On Friday morning, I didn’t have anything planned for the day (except for 9 holes of golf later that afternoon) so […]
Learning to Crochet
This week I’ve been learning a new skill (thanks to YouTube) and I fell in love with it. My friend Renee who lives in Spain and is a fluent French speaker (we chat in French every week), recommended Yolanda Figueroa’s YouTube channel where she runs crochet tutorials of tops that she’s created. The garments are […]
Curated TidBits For the Week: Lessons for Learning
Substack, Schmuckstack I know that creators out there need a way to make money from their content and create substack newsletters but frankly, I’m really sick and tired of hearing about it. There’s a lot of hype around it. These platforms come and go like waves. First there was blogging, then there WordPress, then there […]
Mouldy Lemons
I head over to my parents house with a stomach ache. I’ve eaten something again that doesn’t agree with me and I have no lemons. I greet my parents and head into their kitchen to pick a lemon from the fruit bowl. “I’m just going to juice a lemon as I have a stomach ache,” […]
When Dreams End
One of the worst things in the world is to wake up from a nice dream. At that moment, you feel like something lovely has been denied to you and no matter what you do, you can never go back to it. Last night I dreamt I was in New York and I was there […]
I Permanently Deleted Twitter
I deleted Twitter on Saturday. I sat there on the kitchen table and clicked ‘Permanently Delete My Account‘. It was a weird feeling especially since I’ve been on it since 2007. After the archived tweets arrived in my inbox, it was time to delete Twitter once and for all. Under the Tweets section or the […]
Curated Tidbits for The Week
Lines and Symmetry: The Death of Jean-Louis Trintingnant This week, well known French actor Jean-Louis Trintingnant passed away at 91 years of age. He was the topic of our French conversation group so I had to quickly look into his work only to realise that he was in classics such as 1950 And God Created […]
Curated Tidbits
Beware of Facebook’s Metaverse ? It’s why I detest the concept of Meta being used by Microsoft for the workplace. Virtual reality isn’t bad per se but when it goes to the hands of the few who start to use it for nefarious purposes, that’s where it goes to crap. Like pretty much everything else. […]
Love and Anarchy
There’s some tripe on Netflix isn’t there? At times I need to put something on tv that I need to do some mindless knitting to. If I’m reading a pattern and have to be careful with my stitches, I’ve learned I must never watch a foreign film with subtitles or risk losing the entire meaning […]
Weird Dreams
I have the most weird and vivid dreams at times. Last night I dreamt that I was on a spiritual retreat in India. I hadn’t been there before and I was excited to start even though I had no idea what to expect. I was dressed in my normal clothes and welcomed by someone there […]
Reading Jaron Lanier
I’m reading a couple of books by virtual reality pioneer, Jaron Lanier at the moment. The first one is You Are Not a Gadget and the second is Ten Reasons To Delete Your Social Media Accounts Right Now. They’re not the reason why I’m getting off social media as I’ve noticed that once we make […]
Block Block Block Delete
Well it’s started. About 18 months ago, I quit Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat. When I say quit, I meant that I simply just left it. Deleted the apps in my phone and didn’t revisit them. In the last few months, through duress, I was part of a French speaking group on Facebook so went back […]
Reminiscing
Back in 1978, a year of my childhood was spent living above The Albion Hotel on Lygon Street Carlton. My father was a publican and at the time, he was managing this pub that was a notorious place for students, “musos” and petty crims. “You could get stabbed for breathing in there” I was shielded […]
In My PJs
Today was a lazy Sunday. It was too cold and wet to contemplate going outside. I even haven’t been out to put the bins on the nature strip ready to be picked up tomorrow. I’ve been THAT lazy. Also, I haven’t been out for a decent long walk or jog for over a month having […]