[The Australian] Rankings boost for MBA school duo

AGSM #32, MBS #52. The Asian schools are starting to creep into the top 20.

Slumdog Millionaire

8.5 / 10

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

9 / 10

Are you dead or just non-expressive?

Another classic Dilbert

RED OAK Boutique Beer Cafe

Microbrewery in the heart of the Sydney CBD; Tasting plates with matching beers; and a absolutely delish Seeded Mustard and Rosemary Marinated Lamb Backstrap.

Brilliant.

[Freakonomics] Why You’ll Love Paying for Roads That Used to Be Free: A Guest Post

The Sydney Harbour Bridge and Sydney Harbour Tunnel are soon to have different tolls for different times of day, which I think is a great start, but, as Stephen Dubner writes, "the best solution is to vary the tolls in real time based on an analysis of current traffic conditions."

[smh] Train crush load limit set to triple

"OVERCROWDING will become accepted practice on triple the number of CityRail trains under a NSW Government bid to make its performance figures look good.

CityRail aims for no more than 5 per cent of trains to carry a "crush load".

But bureaucrats want to extend that target to 17 per cent after a review revealed 16 per cent of services in 2007-08 ran with such a load - whereby passengers exceed 135 per cent of seating capacity."

Living in New York in 2002

Inside the Butler Library at Columbia
Originally uploaded by adrianhind

A bit of a retro look at the four months I spent at Columbia Business School in New York City in 2002.

Here's the full set of photos.

First Recession?

He he.

Today's Dilbert is a classic.

2008 - Cities and Towns

Following Stuart's lead, here's a list of cities and towns I've stayed in over the last year.

Cradle Mountain, TAS, Australia

Preservation Bay, TAS, Australia

Melbourne, VIC, Australia*

Sydney, NSW, Australia*

Adelaide, SA, Australia

Los Angeles, CA, USA

San Diego, CA, USA

Indio, CA, USA

Las Vegas, NV, USA*

Grand Canyon Village, AZ, USA

Bryce Canyon, UT, USA

Springdale, UT, USA

Breckenridge, CO, USA

London, England

Siem Reap, Cambodia

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Shanghai, China

Hangzhou, China

Canberra, ACT, Australia*

Mumbai, India

Jaipur, India

Guerilla Bay, NSW, Australia*

Port Douglas, QLD, Australia

* Multiple entries, non-consecutive days.