Getting Ready for Christmas: *Santa* Brand Guidelines and Workshop
As I am getting ready for Christmas, I wanted to share some important information on how the *Santa* ®™ brand can be used in the community. In the same way that many corporations have guidelines on how...
View ArticleFriday Funny: Dundee – The Son of a Legend Returns Home
If you haven’t been keeping up with the latest news in the Australian movie scene, here is some information to really get you excited. After the amazing successes of Crocodile Dundee in 1986 and the...
View ArticleFriday Funny: Project Management
After working in the Microsoft Dynamics GP world as a partner consultant, developer and support engineer for the last 25 years or so, I got to see a lot of Project Management. I got to see a lot of...
View ArticleFriday Funny: Awesome Citroen 2CV Advert
When I as at school, I was one of those geeky boys that spent a lot of time in the school library. I actually worked as Library Assistant for a couple of years… I even still have the little badge to...
View ArticleFriday Funny: Can You Solve This: 9 – 3 ÷ ⅓ + 1 = ?
After the amazing success of my series of articles on the last maths problem to go viral, I thought it was time for another. If you did not see the last one, check out the links below. The first link...
View ArticleApril Fool: Microsoft Dynamics GP 30th Anniversary Celebration planned for...
Microsoft Dynamics GP is just over 25 years old now and there are big plans to celebrate its 30th anniversary. The Dynamics product and its underlying development environment, Dexterity, were developed...
View ArticleFriday Funny: Sporting Maths Problem
As usual, there is another mathematics and reasoning problem doing the rounds on the Book of Face. It showed up on my feed because some of my friends had responded on it. Funnily enough a number of...
View ArticleFriday Funny: Polygons, Bananas and Clocks Maths Problem
After all the fun on Twitter after the last Friday Funny: Sporting Maths Puzzle, I have found another one to challenge you with. This one also comes from the Book of Face and showed up because some of...
View ArticleFriday Funny: It’s true, Toilets do flow the other direction in Australia
For many years, when I have visited the US for conferences, there is always someone who makes a joke about the toilets flowing in the other direction in Australia. I am not talking about back up...
View Article#CaminoDeSantiago Where is David for the next four weeks?
I did mention in my last few posts that something was coming up and the title has given the surprise away, but here it is….. Jennifer and I left South Africa after the GPUG Amplify South Africa 2018...
View ArticleFriday Funny: Life Size Lego Technic Bugatti Chiron
I believe that by now most of you should know that I love Lego. I have always had Lego in my life as a kid and also as an adult. In recent years I have used Lego Mindstorms to design and build robots...
View ArticleFriday Funny: More on AFL: Australian Football League
Today for the Friday Funny article I have decided to revisit a topic I posted about three years ago…. Our national sport: AFL or Australian Football League or Australian Rules Football or Aussie Rules...
View ArticleFriday Funny: Fruit themed algebra maths puzzle
This week started for me with a very interesting phone call. It was from a gentleman from the United States looking for algebra based educational materials. I thought he must have the wrong number and...
View ArticleFriday Funny: The Order of Operations is Wrong
Last week, I mentioned having a chat with Jim in the US about Order of Operations and algebra mathematics problems. He sent me a link to a video on Order of Operations title “The Order of Operations is...
View ArticleWhere is David next week: I have been summoned to appear in court
Just a quick note to keep you informed. I have been summoned to appear in court next week and so will be out of the office from then for an unspecified amount of time. I am unable to provide any...
View ArticleFriday Funny: Explaining Loops in Programming
Happy Easter everyone. In Australia, Easter is accompanied by a four day long weekend, so hopefully everyone will get a break from work. You would have seen that I recently served on Jury Duty. I was...
View Article#StarWarsDay : May the Fourth Be With You 2019
I was not planning to post anything for Star Wars Day 2019, but then I came across the video created by the University of Western Australia and decided I needed to share it. It recognises the sad loss...
View ArticleFriday Funny: How do you like your Toast?
This is completely off topic, but a fun way to end the week. So the question is “How do you like your Toast?”. Do you like warm soft bread, burnt smoldering charcoal or something in between? So let’s...
View ArticleFriday Funny: How do you draw a capital X?
Following on from last week’s Friday Funny: How do you like your Toast? here is another silly waste of time. Hey, but it’s fun. This week’s question is “How do you draw a capital X?” What is the most...
View ArticleFriday Funny: Star Wars IV – A New Hope: Scene 38 Reimagined
Earlier this month (a few days after May the Fourth) the team from the YouTube Channel FXitinPost released an unofficial short of their version of the lightsaber battle between Darth Vader and Obi Wan...
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