GE Reunion
Kate Carruthers We had a bit of a GE reunion dinner in Sydney on Friday night – at the Bavarian Bier Cafe. It was nice to see everyone again, but I think…
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Information Architecture Institute
The Information Architecture Institute has some really good info on IA, inlcuding some easy to use templates like this one which is based on Excel so it is very accessible.…
Sysadmin humour
In my misspent youth I was a unix sysadmin and this post reminded me of why I quit. “I think that we should officially make this the sysadmins credo. We’ll…
Collaboration in the world of Web 2.0 Conference
Spoke at the Ark Group’s Collaboration in the world of Web 2.0 Conference today – the topic was online collaboration (copy of the presentation here). It is very helpful to…
PikiWiki
Just launched – PikiWiki – fun for those bored with textual wikis via Aide-mémoire
Digital Media & Convergence
Weirdly several people have wanted to talk about digital media with me over the last few days. It is very apt with the AIMIA Digital Media Summit so close (I…
Why women just don’t want IT
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…
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…