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Recently I visited the site in Flanders where John McCrae wrote the famouns pomen In Flanders Fields. It is at the Essex Farm Aid Station only a few kilometres from Ieper (aka Ypres).
I visited on a cold, muddy and miserable day. The concrete bunker where [...]
I have taken some time out from business meetings in Europe to make something of a personal pilgrimage in the steps of my ANZAC ancestors.
It has been a very moving and very sombre experience. To see the tiny spaces of land fought over in World War 1 that resulted [...]
Since I am traveling around there is not always the time or the internet access to blog as often as I would like. Instead I’m sharing links to resources that are guiding my journey via Pearltrees:
It is always interesting to look back and see what all the words on your blog add up to. Wordle is a great tool for that.
Here is one for this blog:
It makes me wonder what a Wordle of my spoken words would look [...]
It was fascinating to take the time and think back to the days of the Y2K bug and discuss what happened (and some of the crazy hype that went on) with Paul Wallbank, Prof. John Quiggin on Radio National’s Future Tense program with
One question that I am often asked when speaking to groups about the digital revolution is “what about privacy?” This is usually in relation to social media and social networking. Privacy comes from the Latin word privatus:
A good example of the fellow feeling across the Tasman for ANZAC day and all that it means is the speech by the New Zealand Governor-General, Dame Silvia Cartwright, at the 2004 ANZAC Day Dawn Service:
“The presence of so many children and young men and women at ANZAC ceremonies [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“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 & [...]
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