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FITT - Females in Telecommunications & Technology

FITT - Females in Telecommunications & 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/

6 Secrets of Highly Secure Organizations

6 Secrets of Highly Secure Organizations

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

Brushes with Fame

Brushes with Fame

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 Australia I

More on Bullies @ work

More on Bullies @ work

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

Stages in the Learning Journey

Stages in the Learning Journey

Speaking with friends who are educators of the young ones, 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

The coming integration of IT and biotechnology ...

The coming integration of IT and biotechnology ...

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. All of

Only 26 more sleeps until the election is over!

Only 26 more sleeps until the election is over!

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

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