Melbourne hits 46.4 degrees

[the age] "Melbourne's all-time weather record has been broken and the city is sweltering under the twin effects of high temperatures and hot north-west winds.

The city hit 46.4 degrees at 3.04pm - the hottest day since the Bureau of Meteorology started keeping records 150 years ago.

The previous record was 45.6, set on January 13, 1939 - a day otherwise known as Black Friday.

[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.