Author: Mr Bootle
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Loving
I bless the day I met my wife I bless each of the days we spend together I feel blessed to have two wonderful children and I bless each day I get to see them grow I feel blessed to be in a country and city where it is not strange to be in love…
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Shout out to mum
Saturday and Sunday mornings BBC 6Music is the station of choice. Last Saturday Liz Kershaw was running a week early shout out to mum’s and their favourite tunes. I emailed and got a mention. Suffice to say I was pleased as punch. The story revolves around my mum (like me) being a big AC/DC fan but…
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Albums of 2016
Every year I listen to a lot of music, either purchased via my subscriptions to eMusic and Stones Throw; or via the most excellent BandCamp, Soundcloud or various blogs and magazines such as Pitchfork. This page collects all of the albums, EPs and singles I have listened to in the year 2016. Not every album listed here will have…
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A child is born with no state of mind
Having grown up in the pioneering days of early 80’s hip-hop I would hunt down anything about the hip-hop movement. It was an exciting, revolutionary, wild and most of all; a personal artistic expression that struck a chord with my loner persona in suburban Adelaide. The love of hip-hop was limited to a few rebels within various…
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Sprint review
It’s sprint review or demo day! You’ve hit the end of the sprint and your team wants to show off to the stakeholders that they’ve managed to actually build something or at very least, they learnt somethings that will help move the product on. Trouble is, hardly any stakeholders attend. We all know stakeholders tend…
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The grass is greener
At the start of April I decided to go vegetarian for two months; proper vegetarian – that’s not eating anything with a face! I decided to do this in an effort to give my body a rest from processing meat. While my health has been generally good I’ve been wanting to talk more control of…
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ReflectReflect #2
OK, it’s been about 4 weeks since my first ReflectReflect post. My plan was to do this every week but that failed pretty quickly. I was going to do a video again but it didn’t see right either. Time passes. No lessons learnt. So… what did I learn over the past 4 weeks? Friday reflection doesn’t work for me…
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ReflectReflect #1
My first personal retrospective of the year with shout out’s to Leisa Reichelt and her FinalFinal project, Rosenfeld’s Product Manangement + User Experience online conference and Mark Channon’s Memory School. It’s rough and ready but a start on a dusty path to further learning. And yes it was 4 minutes long.
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Putting it on the next level
As a developing 20-something I had some friends who were dismissive of people who loved their cars, or loved sport. You see my friends were those arty, un-sporty types who didn’t like the national obsession in Australia with sport and/or cars. They felt those people, which were predominantly blokes, didn’t get art or liberalism and…
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Declutter
Clearing out my home and office space and found these historical nuggets from books on web design and flash (remember that?) to the very first version of ReBirth. If you fancy taking these off me and donating some money to Breast Cancer Care that would be wonderful for everybody including my home’s feng shui. Message me…