Category: General

A long time ago I went on a course called “Living on Purpose and not by mistake” which was run by some guy who’s name I now forget.  I know he’s a good buddy of Dr. David Molapo (who, amongst other things, is an excellent motivational speaker).  Anyway one of the excercises we did was to draw a picture of our future, what we’d dream it could be.  Then, a while ago, I posted something similar… basically, if I had no worries, and could spend the rest of my life living in luxury, being served whatever I wanted/needed, what would I do?  I’d probably start off just relaxing for a long while, but once that was over, what would I do?  The blog was entitled “What did I learn today?“

Today, I read a blog by Eduard Penzhorn entitled “Low employee moral hitting IT industry“, where one of his commenters (Kevin T) referred to Ruari‘s article about Champions.  Its a really good article, and deserves some mention… So if you’re wondering what to do with your life or wondering how you ever got to where you are because there’s just no passion in it anymore… take a quick look there, its got some good points and its well written. 🙂

In my case its a matter of doing all of the following:

• Get Married
• Start leading a home group (a.k.a bible study)
• Start leading a choir (and doing admin for a bunch of muso’s)
• Do a whole bunch of house sitting (3.5 weeks in just under 3 months)
• Start a business by mistake

I’ll try post more later… 🙂

Have you ever watched those FBI/CIA/OCA (Other Covert Agency) programs on TV where they have this funky software that they use to either build up a the face of a suspect, or can see what a suspect would look like after some facial reconstruction/hair colour/style changes?

Well, now you can do that yourself using http://www.morphases.com!! They have a fairly small set of faces, but the software is quite cool, and aparently they’re going to be adding more faces soon.

Be warned… don’t go there unless you’re prepared to spend a significant amount of time having fun…

I’m in the middle of trying to build a face that looks like mine… it quite a bit more difficult than you’d think it might be, especially over a slow-ish internet connection.

Well, so much is happening, and I’ve not done an update…  I have a partially completed “Wedding Update”, but too much happened and I don’t want to leave stuff out or mess up details… the next thing I know I’ll find myself sleeping on the couch again.  (Um, actually its not “again”, coz I’ve not done that yet.  Christie’s too nice to do that to me)  Anyway, back to the point… I’m going to skip writing about the wedding till I have time.  I’d also like to upload some pics from the wedding to coincide with the wedding blog entry, so I’ll have to spend some time at home getting the pics and details ready.

In other news: My company has made 2 big sales!  One to Denel (announced internally on Friday), where our software is now going to be going into their entire set of companies/divisions.  It was used in about 8 of the over 30 companies… and the deal is worth between R50 and R100 million. (That’s a big enough ballpark not to cause any concerns over leaking out the details – not that we were told to hold off the details, but I’d rather be a bit more on the safe side)   And the other sale is to “SAS” or “Siemens and Forecia” (or something that sounds similar)… the “SAS” sale is WAAAAY smaller in value than the Denel sale, but its aparently a really good foot into new/other market areas for us. (Don’t quote me on that I’m just clueless underling, so I know nothing.  On top of that, all comments are purely my own views and not those of my company, or any company related to my company, or anyone else’s for that matter (unless otherwise specified(your milage may vary(batteries not included))))

A quick blog…

Two cool recruiters at Microsoft (Zoë and Gretchen) started a blog recently… It has a whole bunch of information on Microsoft interview questions, etc….  All the links above are in response to their “Search Engine Baiting” post.

And incase you’re wondering, I’d love to work at MS – sounds like they have an awesome attitude towards development and customers.  I had a few friends of mine from varsity start working there about 4 years ago (I’ve lost contact with them now), but they all seemed to love it.

WOW, there’s a lot to talk about… but I’ll get to that in time.  A brief synopsis of the last week and a bit follows:

The wedding was great, we really enjoyed it.  The honeymoon was awesome, its a great place to stay – really relaxing.  Came back a day before we expected, but we got to do some shopping for our home which we wouldn’t otherwise have done.  Charlie, John, and Keri left for the Singapore LTT. It was great to be back at church – the Jazz picnic was cool.  The public holiday on Monday was an excellent day to catch up with household stuff, and prepare for the week.  Tuesday was great, the first day in the “normal” routine of life as a married couple.  Home cell went well (Helen spoke), and that brings us to today. 🙂