Archive for the 'Work' Category

In what is being described as one of the “pivotal” events of the current IT era, IBM, the inventor of the PC, has just announced that they will sell off their entire PC Division (including desktops and laptops) to Chinese company, Lenovo.
Of course, this has a direct impact on over 10,000 IBM employees worldwide, [...]

I’m off to Adelaide again this morning - slightly different trip this time. I will be spending the week meeting with business partners and their customers - doing demos, helping them understand the products, and working with the business partners on their plans for next year.
Of course, I’ll also be catching up with my sister, [...]

Off to Wellington this morning - teaching a Lotus Workplace class to some customers and business partners over there.
I like Wellington - has a lot of character … but the weather usually sucks. I’m hoping that this late in the year it will be a bit more pleasant than usual.

I forgot to do my normal blog entry from the Qantas club lounge on Monday … think I was too busy playing The Sims 2
I’m down here all week attending (and helping with logistics for) a class. Portal v5.1 beta … really interesting stuff actually.

Off to Brisbane today … teaching a class for business partners again. A relatively short trip this time.

Off to Adelaide this morning, teaching a class there for some business partners, and taking the opportunity to go visit my family while I’m there.
My sister is in Clare and my parents are in Murray Bridge, I’ll be spending time in both locations while I’m around. I enjoy driving through the South Australian country side [...]

It’s a couple of days late (been a busy week !), but Tuesday the 28th was my 4 year anniversary of joining “Big Blue” (aka IBM).
Given it was during the Dot.com era I joined, I honestly didn’t expect to stay with IBM past about 2 years - that was the longest I’d ever been with [...]

Off to Melbourne tonight - spending a week in Melbourne.
I was going to be attending some training, but it got cancelled at the last minute. Rather than cancelling the trip, I made some quick phone calls and started to tee up some meetings with business partners in Melbourne. I’m going to spend the week catching [...]

Just to give you all a bit of an idea about what my life is like at the moment - check out the post time for this entry *sigh*
(no, I didn’t manually edit the time - it’s real).
That being said, I had a major breakthrough on one of the things I was working on tonight, [...]

I’m in Brisbane this week teaching a Portal class for a customer up here - not something I normally do (usually business partner only), but I got a call a few weeks back from my boss urgently looking for someone to fill in, and since I didn’t have anything else on this week, I had [...]