Tweet It seems appropriate this ANZAC Day to share a good online resource. Thus I commend to people the Australian National Archives site called Mapping our ANZACS. It provides a way to browse 375,971 records of service in the Australian Army during World War I according to the person’s place of birth or enlistment. Using [...]
Entries Tagged as 'history'
Ada Lovelace Day 2010: call for women's history #ald10
March 24th, 2010 · 3 Comments · a woman in ..., ideas
Tweet Today is Ada Lovelace day, the day that women around the world celebrate the achievements of women working in technology. While I could write about a woman in technology – there are many whom I admire here in Australia – instead I am putting out a call for documentation of the achievements of Australia’s [...]
Innovation and technology predictions
July 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment · future
Tweet “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers”. Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943 It is easy to look at a statement like this and poke fun. Hindsight is a wonderful thing! But as I have said on many occasions – innovation always comes unexpectedly & from the periphery. Very often [...]
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Remembering Nan
June 14th, 2009 · 1 Comment · ideas
Tweet 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, named thus in honour of [...]
Normandy and D Day
June 12th, 2009 · Comments Off · ideas
Tweet 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 landings happened was very eerie and moving. We [...]
D Day 6th June and Overlord
June 6th, 2009 · Comments Off · ideas
Tweet 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 June 1944. It is a fascinating film, interweaving archival footage and a [...]
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Gilmore of the eponymous law
April 30th, 2009 · Comments Off · ideas
Tweet ~ A few times now I’ve referred to Gilmore’s Law and wanted to share a bit more about its author. John Gilmore is one of the true mavericks of the internet, and he is a self described entrepreneur and civil libertarian. His ideas are further out on the edge than most, but I think [...]
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