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GANTT games at Oz-IA

To try and combat post-lunch snoozing at last year’s OzIA, I circulated a hotel pad with the following question on it:

 What does GANTT stand for? Have a guess and pass it on.

The answers were:

 Get Another New Time Trap

Good Architects Need Time Tables

Girly Terrible Tablets

Great Amebeous Nervewracked Thought Taker

Gigantic Antisocial Nonsensical Talent Thief

Gutteral African Nose-lead Temper Tantrum

Goosey Arse-whipped Nebulous Tabular Terror

Interestingly enough, I came across the above when tidying up my townhouse prior to heading off to Miami for IASummit.

For the benefit of the thick: I know that GANTT is not actually an acronym, and that it is named for Henry Gantt. It’s just a game :)

So, which is your favourite? Can you think of a better one? :)

WebBlast Canberra 2007: Yes, it was a blast! :)

WebBlast Canberra 2007 took place on 12 December 2007.

The success of the evening was a credit to the organisational skills of co-convenor Gavin Dispain. This is the second time that he and I (and a lot of volunteers) have got together to make an end-of-year social occasion that is open to everyone within the web industry - managing directors, web managers, information architects, graphic designers, university lecturers, students, and account managers.

This is me, slumped in a chair exhausted at the end of the evening:

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It was great, but by 9PM or so (when this photo was taken) I’d pretty much adrenalined myself into a stupor :)

Everyone seemed to have fun - and there was the added bonus of a lot of business-related networking in amongst the celebration.

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The chap hoisting his glass in the far background is none other than our own Stephen Hall. Also visible in this photo are Susan Schuller, Susan MacGillivray, Scott Ward, Paul Cooper, Andrew Meers, John Kennedy, Steve Collins, and many more besides. If you are in this shot and I haven’t mentioned you, please accept my apologies - leave me a comment :)

WebBlast Canberra 20o7 would not have been possible without the enthusiastic support of the following sponsors:
SMS Management and Technology
MaadMob

OPC

Funnelback

SitePoint

Maxamine

AcidLabs

Web Directions South

And to the volunteers, my undying thanks:

  • Genevieve Boyd
  • Duncan Buchanan,
  • Rae Buerckner,
  • Brett Campbell,
  • Paul Cooper,
  • Pippa Hague,
  • Stephen Hall,
  • Gabrielle Hodgson,
  • Matthew Hodgson,
  • John Kennedy,
  • Donna Maurer,
  • Kathy Smalley,
  • Scott Ward,
  • last but certainly not least, Jenny Wookey.

Note: Photos used in this article were kindly taken by Matthew Hodgson - please see his Flickr gallery for more.