Archive for the 'Sport' Category
Damn! Australia lost the Ashes.
There’s been a lot of noise about whether captain Ricky Ponting should take the blame, or if the general inexperience of the team is to blame.
I suspect the problems lie elsewhere.
Australian cricket was fortunate to have an extraordinary generation of players arrive in the 1990s. Importantly, most of the [...]
I’m a cricket fan. I adore the longer form of the game.
Part of me understands that a game which spans thirty hours over five days is anachronistic and I see why some say Test cricket is dieing. It’s easy to see the logic that asserts that condensed forms of cricket tailored to the hectic demands [...]
In the last few weeks, I have made some big declarations.
To become a junior soccer team manager, I have had to sign my life away as never, ever, ever having anything to do with child sex offences, offenders, offers or anything. Otherwise I can be carted off to chokey for so much as showing up [...]
I’ve been fired by my only pro bono client, the Newtown Jets.
For the last three years, I have written match previews for ‘The Jet Base Rag,’ a wee magazine the club distributes at home games.
I’ve used it to channel HG and Roy into a torrent of Rugby League cliche. It’s been fun.
But the powers that [...]
I’ve signed some scary documents lately.
One, which I signed last night, declared that as I am now a Volunteer Under 7 Soccer Team Manager I have not ever been convicted of a child sex offense. If I have lied about this and am found to be a sex offender who comes within a mile of [...]
I really admire the Australian cricket team: here’s why.
Cricket is a peculiar game in that it largely consists of a contest between individuals. The bowler bowls to the batter and the other 11 players on the field have very little to do with it a lot of the time.
But the Australian team seems to have [...]
Twitter / ssharwood- ssharwood: [plug] 20 free virtualization tools :: SearchNetworking.com.au http://ow.ly/CTzi
- ssharwood: [plug] Second security flaw strikes Windows 7 :: SearchSecurity.com.au http://ow.ly/CTxZ
- ssharwood: @lelak now I get it.
- ssharwood: @lelak that's a poor Dare substitute :-(
- ssharwood: @lelak How many sugars? (I bet 36)
- TechTarget ANZ
- Could a containerized, Microsoft-style, data center work for you?
- The state of COBOL
- How to consolidate applications
- BAM vs. BPO vs. BPM vs. BPA vs. BPMS
- Sesame Street's 10 lessons for the IT department
- Energy Australia dumps Notes for contact centre knowledge base
- Eight free IT outsourcing templates
- Five ways to boost business intelligence
- Three ways Lean processes can improve your BPM effort
- The pain of SOHO IT
- What I’m listening to
- Rufus Wainwright – Between My Legs
- Rufus Wainwright – Nobody's Off The Hook
- Rufus Wainwright – Tiergarten
- Rufus Wainwright – Going To A Town
- Rufus Wainwright – Do I Disappoint You
- Rufus Wainwright – Old Whore's Diet
- Rufus Wainwright – Crumb by Crumb
- Rufus Wainwright – Waiting For A Dream
- Rufus Wainwright – Memphis Skyline
- Rufus Wainwright – Gay Messiah
- Smart Call Podcast
- 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
-
Recent Comments
