Monthly Archives: April 2007

CeBIT Sydney 2007

I’m off to CeBIT in Sydney this week – work is sending me up there with several others. We’ll be exhibiting at a stand in the E-Commerce and E-Finance area, so keep an eye out for us with our free chupa-chups! Depending on what happens, I may have some photos and other information to share [...]

Why it’s wrong to praise your kids

Why it’s wrong to praise your kids: this is the title of an article in the Weekend Australian Magazine this morning. In it, Po Bronson, author of Why Do I Love These People? discusses results of various surveys conducted on the now slightly controversial topic of child self esteem. To give a bit of background, [...]

Soul Survivor 2007 – and Soul in the City 2008

Well, I have just spent all of last week at the Soul Survivor Sydney 2007 conference! Every single Soul conference that I’ve been to so far has been different from the last, and this one was no exception. Rather than being primarily a participant, I was this time primarily an organiser. I was on the [...]

Soul Survivor conference 2007

I’m looking forward to the Soul Survivor Conference this year – only a few weeks away! The annual Soul Survivor conference happens every April, during school holidays, in Sydney. It’s a week of teaching and worship, and going there each year gives me a week of unwinding, forgetting about work and the rest of life [...]

Welcome back

thinkStack is back – with more regular posts. To start off, I’m going to be writing a few articles aimed a bit more at the non-technical people. I’ll be writing about The Alternatives. It strikes me how so many people stick with the status quo when it comes to IT, even though in the vast [...]