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Remembering Nan
Today is my grandmother's birthday. She passed away many years ago, but in so many ways she is with me everyday. Until I was quite grown up she did not have any other name for me than 'Nan'. But as I grew I learned that her
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Normandy and D Day
This month is the 65th anniversary of the D Day landings in France and on June 6th, as a kind of remembrance, I watched the film Overlord. The film brought back memories of my visit to Normandy late last year. Walking over the ground where the landings happened was very
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Project TOTO and Africa
My friend and colleague Stilgherrian is involved in one of the more interesting projects around these days: Project TOTO. Some background There used to be an NGO called Austcare, and they've just changed their name to ActionAid Australia. Project brief TanzaniaActionAid AustraliaAustcare Now this is going to be
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D Day 6th June and Overlord
Got up early this 6th June and went off to the Sydney Film Festival showing of Overlord. This is a rarely seen film based on Operation Overlord, the code name for the Allied invasion of Normandy, which was launched on D-Day 6th June 1944. It is a fascinating film, interweaving
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For all the font-geeks out there ...
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Boundaries real and imagined.
Seth Godin's recent post Out of bounds got me thinking about the implicit contracts that we create almost unconsciously everyday. In Seth's post he's talking about companies and their marketing. He notes how upset people get when a brand or product does something that
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Evolving Twitter strategies.
A long time ago I confessed to @SilkCharm that I did not get Twitter and was about to abandon it. But at her urging I persisted with the darn thing. Then quite quickly there were a whole bunch of people following me, and it became necessary to develop a set
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BarCamp Sydney 27 Jun 2009
BarCamp Sydney is on again - so block out Saturday 27 June 2009 in your diary. This is 5th BarCamp Sydney & the un-organising committee has tagged this one as the Recession Edition or “the BarCamp we had to have” (paraphrasing Keating from 1990). There's a new venue
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MBAs, ethics, pledges and virginity
Recently I noted the phenomenon of MBA graduates signing pledges promising to behave ethically. This is an admirable sentiment, especially given the sheer number of MBA graduates (from 'excellent' business schools) who've been responsible for and/or complicit in our current Global Financial Crisis. But it
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Dr Happy and the future summit.
Here's Dr Timothy Sharp - who's also known as Dr Happy - from the Happiness Institute talking about the Future Summit and why he took time out to attend.
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Live local love continues
Even though I've finished my Live Local 7 day challenge the amazing support from people both online and offline continues. An example of this is the very kind @jrobens who dropped off a new plant for my garden at lunch yesterday. Now I've got a curry
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Engineers building a new future!
Here's Daniel Almagor from Engineers without Borders talking about why he thinks the Future Summit is important to help us "engineer a better world":