2013 !!  Phew !!  What a year !!

This blog "Tony's Other Blog" started as my tech blog, but then I moved that to a specific tech blog, and I always intended to diarise the things that interest me but do not fit into my normal daily routine.

So as I sit and reflect on the past year I realise that yet again I failed to be consistent in spending a reasonable amount of time on things other than work.

What did happen this year ?  I changed from full time contracting with UniPhi to being a reseller of UniPhi under a new business called Managing by Project. Somewhere in amongst that I gained a qualification with the AIPM and I'll need to update Linked-In with that info in the new year.

I spent way too much time working in my business interests and failed to work on them. A mantra that I have held out to anyone who would listen for the last 20 or more years, and here I am not listening to those words of wisdom. Of course, I do not pretend that I said them first, but I do think it is a must-do.

What will 2014 hold ?  Who knows, but I am going to really make an effort to prioritise better, document everything instead of trying to keep it all in my head, and to spend a better percentage of my awake time outside of my business interests.

Does this really interest anyone else ?  Probably not, but I have always thought that writing something down makes it more possible.

So my thought for 2014 is "Make it Happen" and my reflection on 2013 is that it was a good grounding for next year.

Seasons greetings to all that adhere to that philosophy and Happy New Year to those that follow the same calendar as me.

Urbanspoon Spoonerisms

So I continued with Urbanspoon, just trying to get my 'home' town changed from Hobart to Melbourne. It appears that if you review a restaurant while on a trip, then the restaurant 'home' is considered to be the reviewers 'home' until such time as the reviewer, a) reviews a restaurant in their actual home location, and b) changes their profile to their correct location.

So while I am doing so, I went to check my profile and, yep, the urbanspoon system now thinks I am Michael.

Grrr... I hate badly written software.

Urbanspoon fails basic review

So you go to urbanspoon as a recognised site for peer reviews of restaurants and you would expect to be able to rely on their system.

My first experience is that their backend platform is so unreliable that my newly registered account is cross-linked to another users profile.  Does this mean I can change things as them? Hopefully not, but really raises questions about the reliability of the system.

...and for 'saltyg' if you are looking at this, Hi!