27th birthday, tech and life !!

Posted Thursday, February 19, 2009 at 1:32 pm by Jason Cartwright

I turned 27 today, as with every birthday makes me think about where I am in life. The answer: exactly where I want to be !!

It’s almost been 2 years since the start of http://techAU.tv, it’s going amazingly. Traffic to the blog continues to grow every month, but more importantly techAU content is being seen by more people than ever before. Commenting, tweets and feedback in general are all increasing, a great sign for the future of techAU. It continues to be a fantastic creative outlet and things are only getting better from here.

I have a great group of friends and right now being un-attached allows the freedom to make decisions quickly and take advantage of opportunities as they arrive.

In my 9-5 I’m now project managing 2 large projects at work. Office 2007 implementation and SharePoint 2007 across a fleet of 1000+ machines and around 400 employees. I’m loving the challenge and enjoy my work. A vast improvement over my commercial projects production role of a couple years ago that contained dangerously unachievable deadlines, causing incredible stress and left virtually no time for life.

The birthday invites today have flowed in via new media technologies like twitter and Facebook, as well as the more traditional phone and sms. It’s been interesting to see the way people are choosing to communicate change over the years.

Also picked up my free birthday Boost Juice earlier, that’s a great reason 2 be a member if you like boost, just show your ID.

Hope everyone is having a great day, cause I sure am.

A huge THANKYOU to all who’ve wished me well today.

Cheers !

Peter Moore leaves Microsoft, heads to EA

Posted Wednesday, July 18, 2007 at 7:11 am by Jason Cartwright

Peter Moore, the head of Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment Business division has announced he is resigning, leaving after August to take a new position at EA Games. Moore has been at Microsoft since 2003 and played a key part in xbox 360′s promotion and success.

One of Moore’s more memorable moments was sliding up the sleeve to reveal tattoos of new game announcements to the platform.

Moore’s successor will be Don Mattrick.

More @ http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/peter-moore-resigns-as-head-of-xbox/