{"id":7086,"date":"2004-11-26T18:03:32","date_gmt":"2004-11-26T08:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/2004\/11\/26\/fringe-benefits\/"},"modified":"2007-10-25T14:11:43","modified_gmt":"2007-10-25T04:11:43","slug":"fringe-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/2004\/11\/26\/fringe-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Fringe Benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today some os us OzLab&#8217;ers had the pleasure of going to the National Press Club to see Professor Henry Chesbrough talk about Innovation. Owing to the fact that we have a pretty relaxed dress code around the office, the invitation made special mention of the fact that shoes and a collared shirt would be required for lunch.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/mpe\/uploads\/2004\/11\/26\/fringe-benefits\/mazda.jpg\" class=\"float\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I remembered my shoes, well if you call sandles shoes, but forgot the shirt.<\/p>\n<p>So I had to do a dash home about 10am to get a shirt.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a pretty boring blog entry you&#8217;re thinking. Well the exciting part is that because of some ridiculous section of the Tax law, it&#8217;s cheaper for Kelly if she drives her car more KMs over the year. Yes, we&#8217;re encouraging people to drive further &#8211; use more fuel etc, nice one.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m not much of a car head, but Kelly&#8217;s car is pretty cool, so I obliged. Here&#8217;s a pic of it outside my house.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah, the Innovation talk. It was interesting listening, and an interesting crowd, we were more or less the only techies, which felt a bit strange. There were some interesting questions, including one that went through the keeper about the XXX XXXXXXX.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently I was on the Tele too! Although one person said I looked bored, I claim that I was deep in thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today some os us OzLab&#8217;ers had the pleasure of going to the National Press Club to see Professor Henry Chesbrough talk about Innovation. Owing to the fact that we have a pretty relaxed dress code around the office, the invitation made special mention of the fact that shoes and a collared shirt would be required [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7086"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}