Aide-Memoire
From the monthly archives: June 2009
Today is my grandmother’s birthday. She passed away many years ago, but in so many ways she is with me everyday.
Until I was quite grown up she did not have any other name for me than ‘Nan’. But as I grew I learned that her name was Christina, [...]
Luk. Ther’s no use gettin all prissy abowt it. It was ther. I ate it. I’ll do it agin. I’z a kat.
iz ur fawlt anywayz. u dint fill up mah fud bowl.
Yes – it’s Caturday again!
see more Lolcats and funny [...]
This month is the 65th anniversary of the D Day landings in France and on June 6th, as a kind of remembrance, I watched the film Overlord.
The film brought back memories of my visit to Normandy late last year. Walking over the ground where the [...]
My friend and colleague Stilgherrian is involved in one of the more interesting projects around these days: Project TOTO.
Some background
There used to be an NGO called Austcare, and they’ve just changed their name to
Got up early this 6th June and went off to the Sydney Film Festival showing of Overlord.
This is a rarely seen film based on Operation Overlord, the code name for the Allied invasion of Normandy, which was launched on D-Day 6th [...]
Seth Godin’s recent post Out of bounds got me thinking about the implicit contracts that we create almost unconsciously everyday.
In Seth’s post he’s talking about companies and their marketing. He notes how upset people get when a brand or product does something that does not fit into [...]
A long time ago I confessed to @SilkCharm that I did not get Twitter and was about to abandon it. But at her urging I persisted with the darn thing. Then quite quickly there were a whole bunch of people [...]
BarCamp Sydney is on again – so block out Saturday 27 June 2009 in your diary.
This is 5th BarCamp Sydney & the un-organising committee has tagged this one as the Recession Edition or “the BarCamp we had to have” (paraphrasing Keating from [...]
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