Dave the lifekludger can’t help himself. He *thinks* he’s been having an emotional breakdown. But what he was *really* doing was re-inventing an entire industry.

I ended up spending my days with my head switched off in Second Life (SL). And it was my answer in this period, my therapy. I needed something that didn’t [...]

Dan used to sit next to me at Microsoft Melbourne all those years ago. I remember when Dan bought this massive Creative mp3 player, I think it was 6Gb or something, was about the size of a bread plate, way back in 99 or 00. We thought it was the bomb. Cost him a week’s [...]

One of the secrets I learned a few years ago was that it’s the questions you ask yourself in times of adversity that determine your paradigm.
For example, when the shit hits the fan, my previous programmed response was to think

"Oh you idiot, how could you let this happen?"
"You shouldn’t have done x, y or z. [...]

It isn’t how you handle success that I’m interested in. It’s how you handle adversity. Anyone can look impressive when they are rolling in the good times. But it takes true strength of character to handle the rough times. I’m interested in being around people who have what it takes. Life’s too short to spend [...]

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Here are the edited video highlights (edited to protect the innocent) of the TPN dinner from Sept 14. Lots of talk about Sharon Stone, geek film and tv reviews, some moleskine talk, with a special appearance by Father Bob Maguire who spanks us for being “social journalists” instead of “social activists”.
Warning: [...]

As you can probably tell from her blog posts, Miriam was the star of the TPN dinner this week as she regaled us with stories of going to an Anglican all girl school in Canberra and… well the things girls do when they are with girls. "nuff said. Well on her blog tonight she’s put [...]

Well last night, to celebrate Richard Giles’ first trip to Melbourne since he’s been on TPN, a few of us, hosts and guests, gathered together in solemn fashion for dinner at Chocolate Buddha in Fed Square, then had a few drinkies at Taxi. I won’t say ANYTHING about what was discussed (valour being the better [...]

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Rich and I do our first show together LIVE! Not all that exciting really. I thought he’d be much better looking. We talk about… stuff.

Rich gives his perspective on Phil Sim’s recent “Influence 2006″ conference up at the Hunter Valley.
We talk about how to harness the collective intelligence of [...]

 

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Ewan The-Hardest-Working-Man-In-Podcasting Spence has had his way with the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and is now invading O’Reilly’s European Open Source Convention aka EuroOSCon. Check out his interviews with notable people over at the Tech Conf Podcast site.

Welcome to Scott and Carmen from the Mac Help from Maui cast who have recently taken over our Mac podcast! Scott and Carmen do a great podcast on all things Apple and we’re in the progress of moving their show over to TPN. The feed is up and live and you get can subscribe here. [...]