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Many people have noted how annoying it is to go to a meeting and experience the well-know 'death by Powerpoint' phenomenon. But one person who's made the argument most excellently is Peter Norvig, when he put the Gettysburg Address on PowerPoint. This simple action encapsulates all
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Ken Burns makes some excellent points in this speech, I've picked out some highlights - click here to see the entire text (in PDF). Now more than ever we in the western world should heed speakers like this. Ken speaks of a United States that has inspired many
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Anyone who has a similar problem with pair gain should let Senator Lundy know, her website is at www.katelundy.com.au where she says: senator.lundy@aph.gov.au
innovation
The more I find out about this the more annoying it is ... It has been a year since this was written, but NOTHING HAS CHANGED IN THE PAST YEAR! Australia’s broadband infrastructure just can’t get the tangle out of the line. A report this week suggests that some
innovation
Daniel's points are all too true! Australia is a broadband backwater and it is all due to the incompetence of Telstra. They have a number of practices that have worked against take-up of these solutions. So much for the clever country? Daniels Blog: I think the root of
civil society
Just when you think politics here is settling down to the usual pre-election party favour handout phase someone somewhere does something entertaining. This last week it has been the adoption of ex Midnight Oil front-man and sometime greenie, Peter Garrett, as an ALP candidate for a safe federal seat in
civil society
I keep wondering when John Howard will go to the next logical step? First we became the deputy sheriff for the US in Asia, then we went to war by their side in Afghanistan and Iraq, now we are making a free trade agreement with them. Surely the next logical
ideas
Found this site in my wanderings the other day when I was supposed to be studying for an exam. It is based on a book called The 5 Patterns of Extraordinary Careers by James M. Citrin and Richard A. Smith and more info can be found at www.5patterns.com.
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The next installment in my continued quest to obtain late 20th century broadband access in the 21st century ... Phoned Telstra and was advised "you have pair gain there is nothing that can be done". They essentially told me to go away and stop bothering them. Wrote email to
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The other day a friend who has just completed an MBA from a prestigious university was disconsolate to read an article by Tim Dodd in the Australian Financial Review (AFR, 17 May 2004) titled "MBAs are losing their cachet". Dodd argued that employers prefer people whose postgraduate studies
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It is very annoying to live in an allegedly civilized and technically advanced society only to find out that one is unable to get access to broadband services since the phone lines here are pair gain. I live in a major city in Australia, just one of the outer suburbs
management & leadership
Recent experiences with two different telcos add up to the same thing - shockingly poor customer service. #1 There have been a series of problems with one of the web pages I'm associated with. The telco in question has DNS problems every other day such that the site