Author Archives: AshMcG
Time for a change
A few weeks back I started to look at what I was eating, and thought I could do better. Deep fried food a few days a week for lunch, carbs…
Why do great employees leave great companies?
Just a little something I found on the interwebby that I’ve seen happen time and time again…. Throughout the business world, managers rely on their employees to deliver results….
And so it begins with Telstra…
I’ve been happy with Telstra for a few years now. Moved from Optus because of the coverage, and have never looked back…until recently. In a recent outbound sales call,…
12 Steps to Better Code – The Joel Test
I found (OK: a friend pointed it out to me!!) a great article on Software Development and a super EASY test about your software development team and process. This one…
The Australian Tax system explained in Beer
When pondering the question of mining super taxes and the structure of our tax system in general please refer to this explanation using the language of Beer ! Suppose that…
Change – Just for the sake of Change?
Businesses need to implement change when their environment demands it, but why make that change if the environment doesn’t demand it? Why inflict that pain if it is not required?…
xDSL – What about my numbers?
I’ve been having some trouble (actually – a fair amount) with my adsl line recently. Currently adsl1 – 8mb. In doing some research as to what my numbers actually mean,…
A Toxic Lesson
As is sometimes the case, events can unfold, and a lesson can be learnt from pure chance… Today, when my folks arrived at our place (nothing unusual so far), Mum…
It’s all about the numbers…
It really is all about the numbers. Metrics, KPI’s call them what you like, it’s all about numbers. Only a month ago, I couldn’t have given 2 hoots (a technical…