Why women just don’t want IT
Kate Carruthers I was away on a snowmobiling vacation in Canada for International Women’s Day in March this year so I missed seeing Sheryle Moon’s speech. I just caught up with it…
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IEEE Computer Society NSW Chapter
Currently working to revitalise the IEEE Computer Society NSW Chapter, first steps have been to: revamp the website start an online community to get member feedback & involvement schedule a…
Failure is an option
Many times I’ve heard colleagues say that ‘failure is not an option’, I’ve even said it humorously myself. But failure is an option and it might just be a good…
Water usage reduction 25%
This past quarter our household water consumption has been reduced by 25%. This effort has not made a negative impact on our quality of life, and it has inspired us…
Meeting Madness
Many times recently I’ve found myself in ‘meeting madness’. Someone somewhere has called a meeting, usually sending invitations via Outlook. The invitation usually has, at best, a one line summary…
Scrum Rules
List of scrum rules from Control Chaos Scrum : an iterative, incremental process for developing software in chaotic environments. Scrum consists of a series of 30 day sprints, each sprint…
Web 2.0 Coming in for a Hard Landing?
There is increasing comment out on the net that we are heading for another dot bomb disaster – but worse than last time. A good example is this on slashdot.…
Unskilled & Unaware – the Kruger Dunning Model
Just read an article by Justin Kruger and David Dunning (1999) from Cornell University about the way that people who know less about a particular area overestimate their own skills…
Reading – Vindication of the Rights of Women
Needed a break from reading Dante’s Inferno (I can only take so much of hell in one go) so I decided to re-read Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights…
Quotation: Infringement of Human Freedom (Pitt the Younger)
Just came across an apt quotation for our times by William Pitt (the younger) from a speech in the House of Commons (November 18, 1783): “Necessity is the plea for…