ideas
The conservatives fight back against Supersize Me - there is a new web site that dissects & attempts to demolish Spurlock's arguments against McDonald's: The “Food Police” are back, this time in a comedy entitled Super Size Me, produced by filmmaker Morgan Spurlock. Spurlock is a
technology
Not many active organisations for women in I.T. in Australia, the FITT mission is to: * Encourage more women into the ICT industry * Encourage women in the industry to achieve their personal aspirations * Assist women to better understand ICT http://www.fitt.org.au/
cybersecurity
A recent article in CSO Magazine (Vol. 1, No: 2 2004, p. 21 ff.) noted the 6 Secrets of Highly Secure Organizations. These organizations: 1) spend more on security 2) separate information security from IT 3) conduct pen tests 4) create a risk assessment process 5) define an overall security
ideas
Sometimes through life you run into famous people - we call these 'brushes with fame' in my family. Recently I was reminiscing with friends about two brushes with fame that related to well-known international politicians. Many years ago - in the mid 1990's - in Sydney
management & leadership
Recently I posted on bullies @ work & made some fairly harsh comments about a colleague who had been doing this sort of thing often and openly. The other day I actually had some time to talk with this person and discovered that they had been going through a very difficult
ideas
Speaking with friends who are educators of the young one, thing has become apparent. The idea that learning is achieved by building foundations or layers of knowledge is passe. The MTV generation want their learning pre-packaged and easily digested. No more learning the basics and practising them to become expert
ethics
I just saw Susan Greenfield - a.k.a. Baroness Professor Susan Greenfield - on a television chat show. She is a pioneering scientist, entrepreneur, communicator of science, policy adviser, and an extremely interesting presenter of complex ideas. She seems to be intelligent, vivacious and wears makeup and nice clothes.
ideas
It is with a grateful heart that I realise that it is only 26 more sleeps until the Australian election is over. Perhaps to liven things up during the campaign they should make the contenders put on sumo wrestling suits & fight instead of the extremely dull debate they had
ideas
Ally often has an amusing turn of phrase, recently she said that another blog she had read "reminds you of the time the light went on for you and you realized that conservatism was not as dorky as it originally sounded - hell, maybe even those dumb conservatives had
management & leadership
I am getting really tired of bullying in the workplace. I've worked in many places - being in info tech I change jobs every two years - and the bullies are mainly babyboomer men (there do not seem to be many women bullies where I've worked)
ideas
Picture two different women competing in the Australian team at the recent Athens Olympics. The first had the misfortune to injure herself a few weeks prior to competition. She had surgery & vowed to compete in the games. Jan Pitman ran in the 400m hurdles at the Games, but she
ideas
Chris in a recent post over at Points of Information has a nice perspective on compulsory voting: "forcing indifferent people to turn out means that you drastically increase the amount of noise in your electoral system, reducing the quality of the results you get". One thing Chris might