by cameron | Dec 24, 2004 | Podcast, Uncategorized
G’day everyone…and a merry xmas to one and all from Mick and Cam at G’day World…
Thnx for listening in to us ramble on about…well…stuff, and a big special thnx to all of you out there that we have interviewed or ambushed over the past few weeks as well as those of you that we have organised to interview over the coming weeks.
We hope you all have a great xmas and get all of the presents that you emailed Santa for…may your beer never run out and your barbeques always run hot…
G’day…from Mick and Cam
“Aussie Jingle Bells”
Dashing through the bush, in a rusty Holden Ute,
Kicking up the dust, esky in the boot,
Kelpie by my side, singing Christmas songs,
It’s Summer time and I am in my singlet, shorts and thongs
Oh! Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way,
Christmas in Australia on a scorching summers day, Hey!
Jingle bells, jingle bells, Christmas time is beaut !,
Oh what fun it is to ride in a rusty Holden Ute.
Engine’s getting hot; we dodge the kangaroos,
The swaggie climbs aboard, he is welcome too.
All the family’s there, sitting by the pool,
Christmas Day the Aussie way, by the barbecue.
Oh! Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way,
Christmas in Australia on a scorching summers day, Hey!
Jingle bells, jingle bells, Christmas time is beaut!,
Oh what fun it is to ride in a rusty Holden Ute.
Come the afternoon, Grandpa has a doze,
The kids and Uncle Bruce, are swimming in their clothes.
The time comes ’round to go, we take the family snap,
Pack the car and all shoot through, before the washing up.
Oh! Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way,
Christmas in Australia on a scorching summers day, Hey!
Jingle bells, jingle bells, Christmas time is beaut!,
Oh what fun it is to ride in a rusty Holden ute
PS. Oh yeah….spread some xmas cheer our way, and go and vote for us over at Podcast Alley 😉
by cameron | Dec 22, 2004 | Podcast
Tune in and listen to one of our longer interview sessions that we recorded last weekend (and our sixth “On the Pod” session) with Mike Vallender.
Mike is currently Managing Director of successful CSIRO spin out Windlab Systems Pty Ltd, now a private company creating an international reputation as a commercial leader in wind energy services.
Mike also serves as Chairperson for Australian Intranets Pty Ltd, Effectual.biz Pty Ltd and Vallender.Com Pty Ltd.
In December 1999, as Managing Director of HotCopper Australia Limited, Mike achieved a successful Initial Public Offering on the Australian Stock Exchange returning up to 600% for its original seed investors. He then led the public company through an on market merger with Bourse Data Limited (three weeks later!!!), a leading sharemarket information services company, and was appointed as its CEO.
Bourse Data Hotcopper was then sold to St. George Bank late in 2001, and Mike was appointed as the CEO of the newly aquired division.
Mike’s other credits include the establishment of the wholesale services division at Australia’s then largest ISP, OzEmail, where he was Cameron’s manager for a year.
UPDATE 2024-12-23: I was saddened to hear yesterday that Mike had gone to the great WOW server in the sky. I’ve resurrected this episode to remember him by, recorded 20 years ago – exactly 20 years before the day he passed away. This was one of our first podcasts. We recorded the first Australian podcast ever in November 2004, so this was done just a few weeks later. Typical of Mike to be part of something new. He was a great guy and will be remembered fondly by many people. This interview provides a great snapshot on the man himself as well as a record of what the early days of the internet were like in Australia. I also found another show with him from 2006 in the archives.
BTW, my original co-host on G’Day World, Mick Stanic, co-founder of The Podcast Network, who is on this show from 2004, also passed away, back in 2020.
by cameron | Dec 22, 2004 | Podcast
Trying to get through the back-log of “On the Pod” sessions we have recorded over the past week means that i wil be posting up two “On the Pod” interviews today…one short ambush session and one longer interview.
The ambush show we are putting up is a quick chat with Mitch Denny from Canberra. Mitch is a .Net MVP and works as a Senior Consultant for Readify who are “Australia’s foremost .Net Trainers & Consultants “…well..thats what their web site says and who are we to argue with a website??
Mitch is great guy who not only is a blogger, but is really getting into the Wiki thing as well. Check out his two Wiki’s, Wiki Dot Not Gartner Dot Com and Don’t Panic, which has a growing list of WiFi and power point (latop power not the presentation tool) friendly locations around Australia amongst other things.
by cameron | Dec 21, 2004 | Brisbane, Podcast
The podcasts just keep on coming this week…
The short “ambush” podcasts are quite fun (and easy to do) so Cameron and I have been doing a few of them. We don’t want to overburden you guys with having to listen to us too much (yeah yeah…i know bandwidth ain’t cheap in Australia and a lot of other countries), but we are having an absolute blast doing the “G’day World” podcasts and love all the feedback we have been getting. So for the moment…you will just have to put up with us posting material in a pretty steady stream…well…it might slow down over xmas but it isn’t looking like it. 🙂
In this episode of “On the Pod” we ambush and have a chat with our mate Angus Logan. Angus is a Microsoft Content Management Server / SharePoint Technologies developer and a resident of Brisbane (or that little area near Brisbane we like to call Brisvegas actually). Brisbane is the capital of the sunny northern Australian state of Queensland, where as the TV ad used to try and convince us…”its beautiful one day. . .perfect the next “.
Listen in as Angus puts us on pause (hmmm) and talks about the “The seven habits of successful retards” amongst other things.
<shh>it looks like we may have a special guest on very very soon…thanx Buzz</shh>
