Cloud 3, originally uploaded by jthommo101.
Last night there was a massive storm cloud to the north-east of Canberra. I snapped a few photos myself, but nothing like these ones on flickr. There were bolts of lightning within the cloud that would light the whole thing up. Very cool.

As Eddie has pointed out, the organisation that I work for has been ‘forced’ to let a number of my contractor colleagues go. The writing has been on the wall for a couple of weeks due to typical budget bureaucracy and projects not being approved and funded as soon as we’d hoped. I’ve seen this [...]

One of the things I’ve become quite attuned to lately is avoiding what I call “Unwinnable Arguments”. These are arguments where neither side will ever win and it’s best to just avoid them. The reason they are unwinnable is because the supporters of either side each have their own values and beliefs which are deeply [...]