Archive for the 'Work' Category

I thought this post by Noel Ranger over on Flying Solo was great - made by wife laugh as well, which is always a good sign!
Working from home: Confessions from the third bedroom
The next time some well-meaning relative asks me how my ‘little’ business is going, when I’m getting an office, or, if I’m still [...]

I have been very busy of late with coding changes to my various website - particularly my forums InvestEd and ZooBeat.
Earlier this week I was horrified to discover that somehow the font had changed for the display of some of the code display in the vBulletin admin area (specifically the template editor). It was now a fuzzy [...]

I just had a Telstra technician (a real Telstra guy - not a contractor) come and fix my phone line.
What seems to have happened is that the technicians who originally came out to fix our neighbour’s problems got confused with the network layout. The cabling that runs up the street is very old (60+ years the Telstra guy [...]

Walked over to Chatswood today for some last minute Christmas lunch shopping (Leanne is doing a couple of roasts and her sister is coming over for lunch).
We also stopped in at a couple of the travel gear stores to look for waterproof jackets and fleeces - and some other tops for Leanne. Leanne also needs [...]

Telstra didn’t show up yesterday to fix the problem they caused on Monday. I still have no phone line and hence no internet connection. To make matters worse I have been crook and don’t have the energy to go out to get online.
Telstra tell me today that they have rescheduled us until Thusday next week [...]

My laptop battery had nearly ran out, the two hour session limit on internet access here at Gloria Jeans was up, and my 2 hour car park was nearly expired, so I decided to go home and recharge.
I’m back at GJ’s now, I had to come out to pick up Leanne a bit later anyway [...]

I’m moving up in the world. I now have a fancy office on Willoughby Road in Crows Nest. It’s a nice serviced office suite with comfortable chairs and an interesting vibe. The name of the office is called “Gloria Jeans” and they also serve good hot chocolate and iced chocolate here - which is convenient. [...]

Olympic Dam copper refinery - Feb 1994
This is part of the copper refinery at the Olympic Dam mine site - the bright yellow substance is not “yellow cake” as many tourists are prone to believe … it is sulphur, used to make sulphuric acid, which is created on-site for use in the refining process. Most [...]

Olympic Dam Whenan Mine Shaft
The first mine shaft at the Olympic Dam Uranium/Copper mine in South Australia.
The Whenan Shaft was completed in 1982, and is used to bring crushed ore up to the surface, where it is transported several kilometres overland via conveyor belt to the processing plant.
There has since been at least [...]

Olympic Dam Construction Camp - Feb 1994
Construction camp at Olympic Dam villiage - still being used to house workers since there was a chronic shortage of accomodation (which I believe hasn’t improved since I was there in 1994!!).
The yellow car is mine, and the first window / air conditioner behind it was my room … [...]