Just before 3pm on Wednesday 15th December, on a beautiful sunny afternoon opposite the Fitzroy Gardens just to the east of Melbourne's CBD, Marjorie Veronica (Billie) Curnow's spirit left her stroke ridden body behind, flew out the window and entered the next life....

Hey, for all those people wondering what's happened to chriscurnow.com - thanks for the thousands of emails. Well, I'm still here. Right now I'm very, very, very tired. I've done it again. I've found myself managing an IT project. A few years ago (1999/2000) I managed...

There's so much analysis of the US election result it's hard to know where to start. As a member of Robert Manne's pro-Labor, left-liberal intelligentsia, I've been mainly reading the handwringing by Democratic commentators and followers. Kottke's analysis this...

Henry Mintzberg Here's a book I haven't read but it is on my wish list. Mintzberg is one of my favourite authors. I'm not sure if I have ever held MBAs in high regard. From the reviews I've read Mintzberg is offering his insight into what is wrong with this form of...

Voters not ready to trust crash through Latham

Australian Prime Minister, John Howard, has been relected. chriscurnow.com commentary at chriscurnow.com/Politics. Bleeding Edge, as usual, has some insightful comments.

Chriscurnow.com is a serious blog. Certainly we don't mind the odd bit of humour but in general we like to relate it to somewhat meaty issues. We tried to have a serious dicussion about the issues around the kind of dresses worn by persons of the opposite ... er ......

What is it about blogging and personal crises. We notice that Bleeding Edge was constrained by a personal crisis a while back. Now chriscurnow.com has been struck by one. Not the worst personal crisis we have suffered in our lives, but stressful and time consuming...

Bleeding Edge points out that Mark Stanic is running a survey on who would like to attend an Australian conference on Blogging. I think it would be a great idea. Some of the topics I would like to discuss with others include: What drive us to do it? (My #1 topic by...

Andrew Bolt normally makes my blood boil. He's probably Melbourne's most right wing columnist. I'm never quite sure how much he believes what he writes or whether he just likes baiting those of us on the left. So I was surprised to find myself agreeing with him, at...