Mr Lewis

After enjoying the Christmas break, and enjoying and enjoying, I dropped back into the office, to pick up my mail. Apart from the drama of the missing accounts file, I found something new on the rubbish table.  Yes we have a rubbish table.  It could normally be described as limbo for books.  If you don’t…

Almost every year, we spend New Years Eve with another family. Its started when we had babies and we mutually agreed to conduct new Years Eve at around 8:30 pm (Yes I know this sounds pathetic, but as anyone with a newborn could attest, we were really, really tired). Now the oldest of the children…

On Friday last week, we ran our second Annual Innovation Leadership Festival. A variety of different speakers discussing how innovation in services occurs both in Australia and Overseas, with specific emphasis on empirical research. All good solid stuff in a day long program at the Melbourne Town Hall, with around 100 attendees. On the Monday…

Early last year I realised that I have a problem with the way I behave. In my heart I know that doing people favours is a good karma, however I also know that people value my input much more when there is a dollar cost involved. And the higher the dollars, the higher they value…

So after promising 11 months ago to set up an online ecommerce site for my father , I have finally been hassled to deliver. I think that’s bitterly unfair as my brothers can get away with boasting about what they can do but never seem to have to live up to the expectations they set.…

Last weekend I tried to ring my Mum and the phone was engaged. I tried again a couple of times and each time she was still engaged. Bloody retirees having a life I thought. During the week I got an email from her, explaining that the phone was on the blink again and if I…

Feeling a bit philosophical today as I have been thinking about thinking. Its not normally what I write about, so I have included the words Mash-ups, Google Earth, data sets and search engines so you can’t say I have strayed too far. To my story……… The other day I met with a senior member of…

On occasion I have a tendency to slag off website hosting providers that give shitty service. It occurred to me that this is a piecemeal approach and it would be worthwhile noting what I get for my money as a benchmark for you to think about. Note I have two providers , one in the…

So the other day a guest signed up for a Churchill Club event called “How to build a Killer Board”, which was a lunch time panel session we ran on getting your Board of Directors right. Now when he signed up, he gave his address as “churchillclub.org.au@hisdomainname.com”. (Obviously I just made up the “hisdomainname.com” bit).…