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09 December 2007 in Notes, Personal, Politics by Stilgherrian | 1 comment
Annabel Crabb has written a superb profile of Senator Penny Wong, Australia’s new Minister for Climate Change and Water. Alas, this was not the best way for me to discover that the death of her younger brother, my very good mate Toby Wong, was a suicide. I miss you, you crazy man.
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11 October 2008 in Internet, Media, Stilgherrian Live
’Pong and I need a driver this Monday lunchtime 13 October through to the night of Tuesday 14 this Wednesday lunchtime 15 October through to the night of Thursday 16 for our “road trip” to Cowra to film a project related to One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) (pictured) which is happening nearby.
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09 October 2008 in Notes, Stilgherrian Live
I’ll do a proper post some time soon, but here’s a quick pointer to tonight’s episode of Stilgherrian Live, uploaded for your viewing pleasure.
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09 October 2008 in Stilgherrian Live
It’s less than three hours until tonight’s edition of Stilgherrian Live (9.30pm Thursdays Sydney time), so we’d better get some nominations together for “Cnut of the Week”.
It’s the same rules as usual. We’re after people (or abstract forces of nature, or organisations or whatever) who’ve been futilely trying to hold back the tide of change.
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09 October 2008 in Daily Links
Stilgherrian’s links for 02 October 2008 through 06 October 2008, covered in peanut butter and cat fur:
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09 October 2008 in Business, Internet, Marketing
Last week I posted a long, angry piece describing how Dell screwed up an important order. Well, important to me. Pissily tiny to them. Within hours I received a phone call from Winston Robins, Dell’s Purchase Experience Manager for Australia and New Zealand.
What immediately impressed me is that he’d actually read what I’d posted, here [...]
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10 December 2007 at 9:44 am
Pee Chai Matt
Awkward way to find out about Toby. Vale Wongster.