As we live through the tail-end of ex-cyclone Oswald, I am in Brisbane, Queensland and once again, we are suffering wild weather. But then, it wouldn't be January without wild weather in Queensland AND worse, at least one natural disaster in Australia!!!The fires in Southern states have been heartbreaking. The floods in northern states are... Continue Reading →
Brisbane Floods – Final Chapter
And so, here we are.... The final chapter. I don’t know about you, but I barely slept last night wondering what I might say!As I reflect on the events of the last week so many moments stand out. I am sure they do for you too, both professionally and in many cases personally! For those... Continue Reading →
18th January 9am – Brisbane Floods – Swipe Card
Today’s thoughts centre around the beauty of a captive audience, however, I would also like to highlight the stress of thinking up new material!The stress of a missing swipe card?Imagine the horror of the moment, arriving at the entrance for work to find I had LOST my swipe card. You cannot imagine the thoughts that... Continue Reading →
17th January 9:02pm – Brisbane Floods – Parking
The little things in life are sometimes inspirational. It was a credit to our Service Provider tonight that while our infrastructure team are on site installing equipment the Operations Manager personally went out to buy the food for dinner for the team! Vendors produced engineers out of nowhere to help with our plight when they... Continue Reading →
15th January 10am – Brisbane Floods – The Power of The Microphone
The Power of the MicrophoneBackup up a little...Don't you just love the media and their efforts to bring the latest headlines to the nation?In the aftermath of the Brisbane floods, too early for clean up duty, those of us lucky enough to have power were glued to our TV screens watching the news broadcasts from... Continue Reading →
15th January 08:45am – Brisbane Floods – Fashion
Good luck with any cleaning up you are doing, I know some of our people have been affected by the floods and it is inspiring to see those who have not been impacted volunteer to help those who have.Gum boots are the hottest Brisbane fashion item at the moment and if you haven’t got yours... Continue Reading →
14th January 08:31am – Brisbane Floods – river levels
For those who can’t see the river, I can confirm it has receded significantly overnight. Another foot and it will be back to the same level it was when I arrived home on Tuesday afternoon!
13th January 10:09am – Brisbane Floods – Lifts
For those who haven’t heard yet, it looks very much like both of our buildings have completely escaped the water!! Awesome... wot a relief!Now you may recall I mentioned an inability to record Coronation Street? Turns out that was the least of it, it can get worse.... they have disabled our lifts.... FOURTEEN flights of... Continue Reading →
12th January 7:30pm – Brisbane Floods – Coro
OH NO! Our data centre provider just went onto Generator power... keep everything crossed they have a good relationship with the fuel supplier :(We switched to generator here at about 4pm.... And have just learned that it is to be rationed in 2 hour blocks - 3 of them in the next 24 hours so... Continue Reading →
Funny and Serious ... food for thought ... 