Archive for the 'Work' Category

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 … [...]

My room at Olympic Dam Village - Feb 1994
The workers quarters at Olympic Dam Village (the township built to service the Olympic Dam mine before Roxby Downs was built) … was the only place they could accommodate us when I went there for my second stay. Very rudimentary conditions with a shared shower/toilet block and [...]

Simon in Roxby Downs
The main street of Roxby Downs as it was in February 1993. I’m sure it’s a bit different now with all the development in the town in recent years!
This was the first of three times I lived in Roxby Downs, each time I lived there for a period of 3 months while [...]

Well, as of about 11am this morning, I am no longer an IBM employee … I’ve been made redundant!
It’s a rather stupid situation … let me explain how it happened.
Back in mid 2005, I was running some training for our business partners with the help of a colleague who was based in Hong Kong. He [...]

I’ve managed to get back into the swing of things with my Lotus Channel blog … and I’ve redesigned the theme to make it a bit more streamlined. I’m pretty happy with it.
Must do a new theme for this blog too.

Flew to Melbourne this afternoon - teaching a class for some BPs/ISVs for the next couple of days … the same class I was in Brisbane teaching last week.
Plane was delayed an hour or so leaving Sydney … something about the generator in one of the engines being faulty so they couldn’t start the engine. [...]

I’ve been a bit quiet of late … think of it like counting to 10 to hold my temper. Let’s put it this way, I think I’ve counted up to about 24,865,390 now while trying to keep calm.
I won’t go into too much detail, except to say that I was planning on attending IBM’s annual [...]

I’m in Melbourne this week - BP customer presentations, two day team meeting (!), and some training sessions for one of our BPs.
Staying at the Sofitel - nice hotel ! Love the surround sound system in the rooms - I remembered to bring the correct cable so that I can plug my laptop into the [...]

Off to Singapore this arvo - attending a class that I’ll be re-teaching back in Australia and New Zealand later on.

Off to Adelaide this evening for a couple of days visiting BPs and their customers.