Thoughts, Stories & Reflections by Stephen Mitchell
Observations on Being a Weekend Father, Creating New Memories & Figuring Life Out
Having a blog for yourself, your business, your product, or just for fun is vitally important in today’s world. In early 2004 Australians were fully flung into the deep end of blogging. A few computer magazines advertising blogger.com - and within months online-written-content exploded 25-fold across Australia. The WWW began hearing new voices from down... Continue Reading →
The mark-up validator has been updated. This is good news for all of us in the ongoing pursuit to ensure our code validates. The new Mark-Up validator allowed me to validate an URL or a file-upload, plus has a ‘direct-input’ field where text can be copied-and-pasted too. These are certainly going to beneficial. Yes, the... Continue Reading →
This is the top fifty people who matter most in the world in 2006. I dare you to start from the most influential and important person on the web, then tab your way through the remaining 49 others who have made it to the list. Where else but on the Internet could someone make a... Continue Reading →
After waiting twenty years for their return, today I purchased GOLD tickets to see Bono, The Edge, Larry and Adam in Adelaide on November 16 2006 at AAMI Stadium is the greatest band on the planet: U2! Yes, I stood line for three hours on my day-off-work. Making 150 fruitless phone-calls whilst waiting in line... Continue Reading →
In the fast-paced world of business, it's easy to get caught up in the latest technological advancements, product innovations, marketing strategies, financial planning, and manufacturing processes. While all these elements are undoubtedly crucial for a successful business, it's important to remember that at the heart of it all, business is about people. "Business is all... Continue Reading →
According to trustworthy sources and CNN, the purses of Yahoo! are spending their hard-earned billions on more fantastic ideas. Now they want to communicate with any extraterrestrial life that might be flying by this giant ball of mud. Seems they can't find any intelligent life down here to recruit into their army of spam-busters, so... Continue Reading →
Editor's Note (2026): I wrote this back in October 2006, long before smartphones became part of everyday life, before cloud computing went mainstream, and before AI became something we could all use. I've lightly edited the grammar and readability, but left the ideas and humour largely untouched. Reading it now, it's amusing to see which... Continue Reading →
Smoking is one of the most self-destructive habits we've ever normalised. Every year, tobacco kills more than 8 million people worldwide. That's more lives than many wars, disasters and other drugs combined. I've never understood the appeal. When did it become logical to deliberately inhale toxic chemicals into the very organs designed to keep us... Continue Reading →
Does your job-situation match any/all of the following sixteen robot-characteristics outlines by Kathy Sierra? Choose one or more of the options below to be sure: You don’t challenge the status quo. You don’t ask those uncomfortable questions. You are 100% obedient. You don’t need "personal" days… Because you don’t have a personal life. You dress... Continue Reading →
You think computing is an industry where a good education helps - right? Here are two examples that show how much education you need to become a billionaire: 1. Sergey Brin received his BS degree in mathematics and computer science from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1993. Currently, he is a Ph.D.... Continue Reading →
I have been reading posts by Chris Pearson over at Pearsonified. Chris writes posts that are always informative and teach old-tricks in new ways and in a different light. This may sound like what every one is doing these days - but Chris puts a particularly good spin on everything that entices you to read... Continue Reading →
I've always dreamed of striking it rich, but the path to wealth has remained a bit of a head-scratcher for me. Yet I have taken the time to research to find out how the unfathomably wealthy better half have managed to save, accrue and finally give their squillions away: "They give away more."Despite their crafty... Continue Reading →
Thoughts, Stories & Reflections by Stephen Mitchell 
[…] with XXY, and alone now, has taught me that my brain is wired differently to most – yet I…
[…] Living with XXY, and alone now, has taught me that my brain is wired differently to most – yet…