On Anzac Day, it seems a good time to remember one of the soldiers in my family – my grandfather. He was lucky – he came back, and had five children and lived a long life after the war, even though he was wounded. I never met him, as he died whenContinue Reading
The Eye family is on holiday in Japan at the moment. Our family of four (three male, one female) accidentally jumped into a women’s only carriage on the Osaka metro the other day. It took us one stop to run the gamut of emotions from surprised, to embarrassed, to indignation (thatContinue Reading
One of my earliest posts on this blog was about the business kiss. When is the right time to kiss in business? We had a long discussion about this at work the other day; probably because we were at a combination farewell and Christmas dinner – both events guaranteed toContinue Reading
Despite watching the first season, I’m not a big fan of Mad Men. One of my regular readers thought that was my feminism coming out, but I think it’s just the lack of likeable characters. Nevertheless, I have to share this estimate of Don Draper’s life expectancy. Hat tip to fellowContinue Reading
In financial economics, there is a concept called the efficient frontier of investing. You can combine a portfolio of shares and other investments in many ways. In theory, there is one line which consists of the intersection of the best return for each level of risk (or alternatively, theContinue Reading
Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, always leaves the office at 5.30 so that she can have dinner with her kids at 6 (via Laura at 11d). I’m pretty sure that her commute is not like the average commute of the working mother of young children (bluemilk nails it as usual), andContinue Reading
Miranda Devine had a rant this week about cyclists: But hostilities were fed by the lies told by the Government and the RTA, which gave cyclists unreasonable expectations and ideas above their station. The former roads minister Carl Scully, a vegetarian cyclist, threw $250 million at the lobby, further fuellingContinue Reading
Last week was a very cultured week for me. I hardly ever go out to live events these days, but accidentally, I found myself at two in a week. It started on Monday evening, with a Musica Viva Chamber music concert in the Angel Place Recital Hall for 1,200 people fromContinue Reading
Randy Pausch, whose Last Lecture was an enormous hit on Youtube, died yesterday. He was a computer science professor, who after being told at the age of 48 that his pancreatic cancer was terminal, gave a lecture entitled “Really Achieving your childhood dreams”. His university (Carnegie Mellon) had a seriesContinue Reading
Well actually, my title is ironic. A teacher of a Year 1 class in Sydney has been sacked by the education department for posing nude with her husband and talking about their sex life in the sealed section of Cleo. You can read more here. This isn’t of course, politicalContinue Reading