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Yaari SPAM
I’ve recently been receiving a fair few emails from Yaari.com along the lines of: [unamed person] wants you to join Yaari! Is [unamed] your friend? Yes, [unamed] is my friend! <link> No, [unamed] isn’t my friend. <link> Please respond or [unamed] may think you said no 🙁 Thanks, The Yaari Team A quick Google search…
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Safely on the ground
A while ago, I looked up at the ceiling at work and found myself looking at a Canon webcam. Finally, that camera is now sitting on my desk waiting for its power pack and then a new use. I’ll have to get into the roof cavity to track or even just pull back the cables…
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Ohayou gozaimasu from Tokyo
The Ballet’s international tour this year is to the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan theatre, Japan. I arrived with the advanced party (mechs / stage management / Operations Manager) a few days ago and had the first day in the theatre today. What do I do on tour? Glade you asked. It’s my job to ensure all…
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Every day is a new experience at the Ballet….
Yes, you can quote me on that. I don’t know if other organisations suffer from the same thing, but in the past 2 weeks i’ve discovered a number of paid services which have not been used in 4 years. This just comes down to lack of documentation about those services so when departments changed hands,…
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Time to make an office a usable space
Thursday looms as the big I.T. cleanup. Over the past 3 weeks i’ve cleaned up and given away about 35 retired desktop and laptop computers from the Ballet which has certainly created some breathing space in my office. This time we’ll attack the server room and the rest of the office and actually finish the…
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Shanghai, city of lights..
The Shanghai Grand Theatre is where we are located in Shanghai. The offices are located downstairs as per the norm but are pretty much concrete rooms. The cabling for phone & power have been an afterthought in most of the rooms. Pick a cable, any cable….After getting one of the points made live, and the…
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A home of my own….
At first you might think I’m talking about finally moving to a place of my own, but alas no. I’ve actually just moved my domain, theatreperson.com, to some proper hosting (courtesy of my friend)This blog is so young, but soon to become redundant.I’ll move everything when I get the new place ready. Plenty of space…
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Whoa…
Well, a few weeks ago I started working for national arts company based in Melbourne, rolling out new PC’s across the network. (yes I.T. is my real job)I’m now virtually running the place. 3 weeks people! 3 weeks! What the?Hey, don’t get me wrong, It’s kinda cool. I have a Blackberry, a place to hide…
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Better late than never….
Well, I’ve often thought about it, but never done it.A blog. Yes, after watching everyone else Nike*.I can not honestly say i’ve put 3 years into it, just been thinking about it for 3 years… Now for some content. I’ve just come out of a 3 show crazy month. Much posting to be done.