Sysadmin humour
Kate Carruthers 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…
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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…
Meeting Madness
Many times recently I’ve found myself in ‘meeting madness’. Someone somewhere has called a meeting, usually sending invitations via Outlook. The invitation usually has, at best, a one line summary…
Scrum Rules
List of scrum rules from Control Chaos Scrum : an iterative, incremental process for developing software in chaotic environments. Scrum consists of a series of 30 day sprints, each sprint…