Sometimes Blue

Censordyne

2009-07-09T16:52:00.001+10:00

Hump day picture

2009-07-08T13:15:00.002+10:00

http://guyswithiphones.com/post/057413/

Beavering away

2009-07-07T17:29:00.002+10:00

All I seem to do is moan about how busy I am at the moment.

Yes I am busy but I really should stop moaning about it, as I tell my mother, If you want to get ahead in life you have to be prepared to work hard.

And I want to get ahead in life.

I am not really good at the while work like balance at the moment, working 7 days a week, starting early in the morning and finishing late.

But you know what?

I feel like I am achieving things not just now but for the future.

I am in the process of hiring a new part time telesales person and boy if that ain't a task and a half!

I have blogged about this before, the need for a part time sales person to call customers and sell them our products. One of the single most important skills is the ability to speak English.

Not a few fractured words, the actual honest to God ability to speak English.

In the first few days of having the job role online we received literally hundreds and hundreds of resumes.

Wading through them was pretty easy.

The number two requirement was experience in some sort of outbound sales roles.

So the three hundred or so resumes were reduced to about 50, of those 50 spelling mistakes and an obvious ability to write English reduced it to about 5.

Out of 5 two will be interviewed face to face, one had no phone manner and the other was looking for a full time role - again how does Part Time = Full Time?

You know I am fully aware of how hard a job market it is out there and how much people need work, but it's almost insulting to be auto sent some person's resume that has meets non of the criteria for my role.

*sigh*

Let's just hope that at least I do manage to find a new person who can perform.

And on totally, totally unrelated issues, I am fed up to death of the canonization of Michael jackson, yes he was a great performer and musician, but he was no saint and he was not a great man.

Ghandi was a great man.

Can we please just get over this, bury him and move on?

I'm not as mad as people think

2009-07-01T07:30:00.000+10:00

As most people who know me already know I take the Beagle Lucy to the office every day.

She loves being in the office and it's often a great stress reliever to have the furry mutt say hi and have some puppy time.

I was on the Boston.com site and there is a gallery of other people's dogs at work and I came across the picture above of a very cute beagle in the office called Penny.

Source

Golden Moment - always turn off your phone before a meeting!

2009-06-30T15:43:00.001+10:00

End of Financial Year Madness

2009-06-30T11:41:00.003+10:00

In Australia it is the end of the Financial Year which means all the accounting needs to be done and the accounts all brought up to order.

In addition it means that anything that needs to be purchased needs to be done now so it reduces the taxable income.

I have been madly paying all the bills and making all the small purchases that need to be done for the office.

I also have to pay the staff super and other benefits as well, and I hate seeing all that cash flow go off, but hey the company earns it and the company spends it.

Superdrewby is gay

2009-06-28T10:02:00.001+10:00

Superdrewby is gay! Make a statement for equal rights for all by changing your status to - "is gay" or "is gay for today in support of equal rights for all" on 28th June 2009 (40th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots) for 24 hours.

Will the dirt be swept under the carpet?

2009-06-26T08:58:00.002+10:00

In the rush to canonise the life and times of Michael Jackson will the media and fans sweep under the carpet that he was accused of being a child molester and even though never convicted paid millions of dollars in hush money to the 'victims'?

Whilst I loved some of his music, in my mind he was still accused of 'fiddling' with young boys.

It will be interesting to see how the media will play this one out...

The September Issue

2009-06-25T14:05:00.003+10:00

The eagerly anticipated REAL documentary follows Anna Wintour around for a year, the real Devil Wears Prada

Review

Hot eye candy

2009-06-25T12:50:00.002+10:00

http://guyswithiphones.com/post/057244/

Be Careful what you wish for...

2009-06-24T14:03:00.002+10:00

For ages and ages I have been coveting other office suites in my building, more natural light, better views, ability to open the windows and et the fresh air in.

Last week I swapped over offices to one across the atrium from mine with the most amazing of views and natural light.

It's fantastic, only one small hiccup.....

Now we need full length blinds because it gets too much sunlight LOL

Kidding aside it's great to be in an office with proper windows again, it feels so much better.

Work is busy still and I am just getting over the last of some disco flu from a few weeks back when we went out to the Frisky dance party!

I will never understand how running around for twelve hours on a freezing cold night wearing only a pair of jeans and not sleeping for a night almost always has me ending up with a head cold (and that is a joke).

I am working on a new gay porn site for a client this week which is rather interesting, we don't generally get such um er salubrious clients but it's all fun, even if I am having to make sure there is no naughty stuff on the site that will offend my staff heheheh

And as for the Utegate scandal, sheesh already would someone please get back to running the country!

Jac BukBuddies

2009-06-20T12:00:00.003+10:00

A hot iPhone Photo for the day

2009-06-19T09:07:00.002+10:00

http://guyswithiphones.com/post/057155/

It's all a left wing conspiracy

2009-06-18T07:30:00.001+10:00

Can someone please explain to me how whenever the American conservatives lose something they also say it's a conspiracy?

This documentary had me laughing hysterically!

Seriously, um like hello!

They even suggested that the average Obama voter was too dumb to understand what they are voting for.

Well go figure that

http://howobamagotelected.com/

My favorite Sarah Palin quote about this consipiracy was "there have even been children harmed".

Like huh?

What?

Even your own daughter (Bristol Palin) admitted publicly that abstinence was not really realistic.

Total Gold!

The paintings have been chosen

2009-06-17T19:10:00.003+10:00

So Rodney came around the the other night with the selection of new panels for the painting I commissioned.

After an insignificant amount of time I have chosen six to replace the ones that are a tad to risque for downstairs.

I did ask about the Milk panel as I was curious about the inspiration. Yes it was partially about Harvey Milk, but it was also inspired by another painting that was similar. I did do a google image search but didn't come up with much apart from some picture of a huge black dude fucking a 'milk' white women's ass - go figure that one.

In his blog Rodney has finally outlined what the entire piece is inspired by:

This is a composite of all the paintings that I've shown here and here. They'll never be exhibited in this way, but I thought it would be good to see what they could look like. All the paintings are found images or found text. The sources range from fine art to graffiti, advertising to comics, book covers, propaganda posters, stamps and quirky things I've seen around or read. They're not meant to stand alone as individual paintings, but as a group, like a row of posters pasted on a building site fence, or a rack of magazines in a newsagency. They reference the endless parade of images that we encounter in our media-saturated lives.

Source

I really do think that Rodney should do more pieces like this because they are so commercially fun and hint hint, he could actually sell more of his fantastic work. Even if they are not as (to him) as creatively interesting as his other work. I reckon if he does this sort of stuff to pay the bills he can then us the proceeds to do the more interesting stuff he likes!

Wilder

2009-06-17T07:39:00.001+10:00

Two very funny new blogs

2009-06-16T06:38:00.002+10:00

Awkward Boners

Straight Guy Pictures

Milk Screenwriter Dustin Lance Black Naked

2009-06-14T10:53:00.003+10:00

The Internet is going wild with the story that the hot Dustin Lance Black Oscar winning screenwriter of the Milk Myopic has has naked pictures of himself leaked on to the Internet.

You can se the uncensored pictures here on Perez Hilton's site, for how long I have no idea.

He is a cute guy and the pictures are pretty racy, but no so racy that you wouldn't find worse on a Gaydar, Manhunt or other gay personal site.

In the pictures he is having unprotected sex, which he says he was doing with his partner at the time. Which is perfectly fine if you are in a long term monogamous relationship.

Of course this is being blown out of all proportion really, but it's a good reminder that if you have any sort of naked or racy pictures of yourself taken, at some stage they could end up on the internet, that's just the way it is!

You really should stop and think before having pictures taken in such a way because if you are not a porn star or not someone who wants to have these sorts of pictures get out then don;t take them.

But Dustin is a cutey :)

So now we have to choose!

2009-06-11T07:45:00.002+10:00

Rodney has finished my commissioned artworks and have offered me 13 choices for the six panels I ned to have replaced.

I think I know which ones I want, which do you like?

You can see the full version at the Artist Rodney's blog.

Cool Site Update

2009-06-10T07:30:00.000+10:00

I blogged a few weeks back about a cool new site I found, http://www.guyswithiphones.com

well the site has been updated and you can now upload your own picture and comment on pictures you like.

It is an awesome site full of hot eye candy of real guys taking nude and semi nude pics of themselves with their iPhones.

How cool is that!

The end of the Long Weekend

2009-06-09T07:25:00.003+10:00

I am not really in the mood to work today, having worked both Saturday and Sunday and then going out all night and partying at Frisky on Sunday night!

Frisky was very hit and miss with the first set quite low energy and it really kept everyone quite slow, But the crowd was raised back up by Ric Dreske who had an awesome set and kept everyone bopping along for hours and hours.

So it's back to the work and grindstone and I will have to force myself to focus on work today.

I think I would rather be pampered in a day spa instead.....

Some thoughts on the Mac

2009-06-06T07:30:00.000+10:00

It's been well over a week since I got the new Mac and went over to the dark side!

And I love it.

It's been a hard slog at times getting used to the way the MAC works and especially�getting�used to the shortcuts for things like copy and paste being so different to what I am used to.

But I simply would not go back.

I still use PC's daily for other things like the business accounts, meetings and testing of sites and we use a PC as our media server at home too.

And every time I go to the PC I am reminded just how clunky it is and how much it is trying to be a MAC.

LOL!

There is still a way to go as I get used to it and then discover all the cool new�things�that I can do I�still�haven't�used time capsule or projects on the MAC yet but that's coming soon!

All this talk of bullying at school

2009-06-05T07:30:00.000+10:00

All this talk of bullying at schools in Australia and the reports about 1 in 4 school age children being bullied makes me furious.

As a kid at school I was�bullied�mercilessly, and the school did nothing or tacitly approved of the bullying because I was�perceived�as being gay and they thought that a bit of good bullying would help 'make me a man'.

There is never an excuse for bullying in the schoolyard or in life.

I have got on with my life and let go of the angst I felt at school and moved forward, years and years ago I started this site to help provide the answers for gay kids, these days the gay kids and the kids questioning their�sexuality�have so many outlets for anonymous self expression that in many ways the original�concept�of the site is irrelevant.

Schoolyard bullies grow up to be bullies in their older lives too. �

They bully their friends, partners and work colleagues because it' the only way they know of acting.

There has always been a perception that kids being bullied bring it upon themselves and quite often the reaction of someone in a position of power is to tell the victim to stand up for themselves (which�in itself is telling the person it's their own fault they are being bullied).

The fault is not with the victim it's with the bully and the system that does not address the bullies�behavior.

The recent furore over the Footy Show Skit with the gay brother being taken to hospital because 'there is something wrong with him and we want a refund' just highlights the entrenched homophobia and bullying�behavior.

One of my closest friends can't see the problem with this 'comedy skit' and doesn't understand why it is wrong.

But skits like this just perpetuate the perception�that�there is�something�wrong with someone if they are gay.

It's wrong for two reasons, 1) it tacitly approves the singling out and bullying of the gay kid (I saw it on the footy show being done by my idols�therefore�I can do it to).

And 2) it tells the kid in the suburbs watching the show who is struggling with his sexuality that it is wrong to be gay.

Yes it's subtle and yes we probably laughed at it, but it's still wrong and it does send the wrong message to the community at large.

Only a small amount of bullying is based on perceived sexual orientation, but until we address things like the footy show and the�perception�that it's the victim at fault we are never going to address bullying and the cycle of people growing up as bullies will not end.

Knox get's Chasered

2009-06-04T18:57:00.000+10:00

Oh God this is too funny!

Dyson and Nash

2009-06-04T07:30:00.000+10:00