Category: Ruminations
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Rumination 50: Will Email Ever Die?
A number of things have come up this year in my feeds that have discussed the history, value and disadvantages of email. First of all, I watched the movie You’ve Got Mail for the first time. Yes, I know… I left it for a while after its release. This film presented the tool in a…
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Rumination 49: Centring Is Overrated
Recently, I noticed that popular job site Indeed has a real issue with centring certain elements of its website. Two major ones it’s homepage appear strangely regardless of which size of device you’re using to view it. In this example, the Indeed logo is slightly higher than the search field and the ‘Find Jobs’ button…
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Rumination No. 48: Republic of Sydney
I stumbled upon this hilarious article by The Betoota Advocate about a nationwide study that confirmed: the long-held belief amongst many, that the Republic of Sydney is, in fact, the worst city in Australia, with only one of its suburbs making it into the Top 100 Most Liveable Suburbs in the country. If you’re unfamiliar…
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Rumination No. 47: Hardly Normal
We all know that newspapers are experiencing a slow and painful death. Some have made a somewhat successful transition to online subscription models, whilst others struggle to maintain readership as people follow stories on Facebook… shudder. On the weekend, I spotted this Saturday issue of The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) at a restaurant. Yes, this…
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Rumination No. 46: Gendered Straws
Whether marked on the door of a public toilet, a factor in the colour of the clothing that you choose to wear or simply the pronouns that you hear, gender and sexual expectations and conventions are virtually inescapable. Twice in the last week, I’ve encountered a strange gender convention whilst out with Natasha for lunch…
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Rumination No. 45: Clean-up in Aisle Four!
On the weekend, whilst out grocery shopping, Natasha and I saw a man who was searching hurriedly for something in the freezer section. He was also carrying a two-litre bottle of milk and various other goods without a basket. We didn’t take much notice of him until he seemed to struggle with the weight of…
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Rumination No. 44: Shorts at Work, Pls
I was reading SBS News and found this interesting article about how women work better in higher temperatures. Here’s the intro: Scientists have raised the stakes in the battle of the sexes over office air conditioning by discovering women’s brains work better at higher temperatures. Men, on the other hand, work better when the temperature…
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Rumination No. 43: Why I Still Use Twitter
Over the past few years, alongside the controversy that has plagued Facebook, Twitter has also received its fair share of criticism. From enabling cyber-bullying to being Donald Trump’s global megaphone of choice, it is often regarded as a toxic hell-stew or ‘dumpster fire’, as numerous American tech podcasters like to say. Other than the major…
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