Andrew Stevens

In this A List Apart article, Kevin M. Hoffman echoes my own thoughts on some of the bland kick off meetings I have attended over the years and offers some interesting questions for consideration: What is the one thing we must get right to make this website/application worth undertaking? How does your organization define success? [...]

It has been a while since I have posted anything here. It is about time I started again.

CHI-X, the company set to break the Australian Securities Exchange’s monopoly over share trading, is understood to be talking to international clearing houses, including Fortis, about setting up in Australia, in a move that would further smash the ASX’s lucrative $180 million-a-year cash market monopoly and cut overall prices. Read more on BusinessDay.

Fake reviews often have: Have zero caveats, and are full of empty adjectives and pure glowing praise with no downsides. Are all left within a short period of time of each other. Mainly tally off product features. (Real users talk more about performance, reliability, and overall value). Reviewers names are all variations of one another, [...]

Well almost… According to a study published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, coffee can stave off the affects of aging on the brain—specifically in women over the age of 65. “MRI brain scans revealed that women who drank three cups of coffee per day (or 6 cups of tea) had lost less brain tissue [...]

I am a fan of Lifehacker, and I do have strong opinions on Mensa too (keeping those to myself for now): Smartypants organization Mensa named Lifehacker among their top 50 web sites of 2010, listing us among handfuls of other great sites like Gizmodo, BoingBoing, NPR, and Wikipedia. We may not agree with every choice, [...]

I came across this today, it’s a formula to express “Anything that can go wrong, will“. ((U+C+I) x (10-S) / 20 x A x 1 / (1-sin(F/10)) U (urgency): 1 <= U <=9 C (complexity): 1 <= C <=9 I (importance): 1 <= I <=9 S (skill): 1 <= S <=9 F (frequency): 1 <= [...]

I was looking forward to seeing this. But now I am not. I am too distraught to say more. http://media.smh.com.au/entertainment/pick-of-the-flicks/astro-bore-is-far-from-amazing-789035.html Do I hide the Astro Boy figurine on my desk now in case I am mistaken for a fan of the movie?

Snubble was a small gnome, crooked and bent from spending hours in his workshop. His round glasses filled his face as he peered at his books beneath the light of one dull candle; he was deep in thought and pondering the designs for another fantastic creation. He was no ordinary gnome; he was the inventor [...]

My Oath: I swear: never to commit violence against women, never to excuse violence against women, and never to remain silent about violence against women This is my oath. I took this oath at myoath.com.au Why swear? UN Secretary-General Ban-Ki Moon has labelled violence against women the most prevalent violation of human rights on the [...]