I’ve often seen people crushed under their own desire to achieve greatness. It would seem that when confronted with a large task or ambition instead of breaking it down into…
I’m not what you’d call typical when it comes to my taste in music. Whilst I can easily identify the kinds of music I like (trance, dance and all that….
I’ve blogged numerous times before about the Internet Filter and it had been all quiet on this front up until this morning when I got wind of this: THE Rudd…
Just as the IT industry continues to reinvent itself every 10 years so it also appears do the people in that industry. Whilst the term IT is relatively new when…
No matter what you do you’ve got to have a bit of pride in what you’re doing. I’d love to tell everyone that my sense of pride in my work…
This post is going to form the basis of a new category of posts here on The Refined Geek which I’m calling Ideals of Life. A couple years ago I…
No matter which industry you look at these days everyone is trying to go green. The idea in itself is riddled with many challenges as traditional business processes must be…
In many modern democratic countries the choice of leadership often comes down to two parties who hold the majority of power. This is then augmented by having many other less…
In rough economic times such as these many public and private sector industries look to cut spending in pretty much any place that they can. One of the hottest topics…
Everyone knows someone (or is that someone) who’s so involved in a certain hobby or profession that they can spout the latest news about anything in that field. I often…