I have always loved TED talks (described to me once as Facebook for smart people!), so when we had the opportunity to go to TEDx in Brisbane we applied. Held on the weekend at the State Library it lived up to my high expectations. So many ideas were shared that both Paul and I came [...]

Surely it’s not just me that has noticed that Google has been in, around, on top of and responsible for everything at the moment. Almost every news story, blog post, email that I read mentions Google. Some of the innovations that Google have bombarded us with recently include the Google phone, Google Wave, the updated [...]

Fashion enthusiasts - including myself - weren’t disappointed with the spectacular frocks on display at the Golden Globes. Despite the rain, Hollywood’s finest showed off their dazzling style on the red carpet. Some of the stunners were Emily Blunt, Toni Collette, Jennifer Aniston, Nicole Kidman, Sandra Bullock, and Penelope Cruz.
For a list of the night’s [...]

Sick of searching for unique items at shopping centres? Want to satisfy your “retail therapy need” elsewhere?
The Boutique Markets (formerly known as the Designers Emporium) is perfect for you. It has recently relocated to Portside Wharf in Hamilton, Brisbane and is held on the second Sunday of every month between 8am and 1pm.
The market aims [...]

Read it!! William McDonough’s book, written with his colleague, the German chemist Michael Braungart, is a manifesto calling for the transformation of human industry through ecologically intelligent design. This book as a must-read for anyone interested in the future of the planet and society. McDonough “argues that we can only think of our [...]

“Life is no straight and easy corridor along which we travel free and unhampered, but a maze of passages, through which we must seek our way, lost and confused, now and again checked in a blind alley. But always, if we have faith, a door will open for us, not perhaps one that we ourselves [...]