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My three year old daughter, who is in pre-school, amazed me this morning.
I was eating toast and she paused her usual doodling and said “Daddy, I have spelled toast.”
And indeed she had: “ToST,” which is pretty damn good for someone her age.
When she showed this to her mother later in the morning, my six year [...]
Warning: This post is long, illogical, self-indulgent and lacks narrative.
I cannot remember where I heard this piece of dialog, but it haunts me. It went a little something like this:
(Sounds of ‘Hotel California’ in the background)
Dad: I grew up with The Eagles.
Son: So I grew up with The Eagles too.
Dad: So when The Eagles came [...]
My son is going to a sports camp this week, along with the children of a PlaySchool presenter/rather famous entertainer.
We were discussing his presence around the dinner table this evening when my daughter said she has heard of the entertainer in question and declared:
“They have one of him on Play School. He is real.”
Yes, dear. [...]
For Christmas we bought the boy Super Mario Galaxy for the Wii.
It is the first modern computer game we’ve had for a while. Our last console was the PS1 and although we have had the Wii for a few months, we persevered with Wii sports.
Now I’m starting to appreciate just what astounding creations modern games [...]
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- Smart Call # 70 – Travel and analytics advance agentsOn this show, we have a look at two unusually advanced ways to improve agent performance. The first comes in our main presentation, which comes from Paul Cahill, General Manager Customer Service at Internet Service Provider iiNet, which operates contact centres in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Paul explains how iiNet works to build a consistent [. […]
- Smart Call #69 – Who’s the boss?In this episode of Smart Call, we ask: Who’s the Boss? And we do so in two ways. First up, we have Dr. Catriona Wallace of callcentres.net sharing the results of her firm’s annual Australasian Benchmarking Report with us. Catriona finds that call centre bosses have some happier challenges at the moment, because fewer workers are leaving [...]
- Smart Call #68 – The geek show!This episode of Smart Call gets geeky as we talk to two IT strategists. But don’t worry that we are going to go all dry and technical on you! Instead, we have a fascinating presentation from Genesys’ G-Force about the future of customer service, from Bill Peer, a Vice President for Enterprise Architecture at the InterContinental [...]
- Smart Call # 70 – Travel and analytics advance agents
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