Women and getting ahead in business
Kate Carruthers Just had an anonymous comment on an old post. The commenter said: “Honey, you must be very young. It’s not just about how hard you work. The ole’ boy’s network…
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Reading a new book … Z
Am reading a new book by a first time fiction author, it is called “Z” by Jonar Nader and it has some really interesting ideas. He has written some other…
Cool dog monks
In my web travels I came across a monastery with monks that train and raise dogs. On their website they articulate some of joy and wisdom of having a close…
Transcripts: Harvard’s Blogging, Journalism & Credibility conference
Thanks to Hughie from University of Queensland for the info that transcripts of Harvard’s Blogging, Journalism & Credibility conference are available at: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/webcred/Interesting stuff posted to it (it’s a blog)…
How Net Gen people think and learn
As always Belinda from journoz: Guide to Internet Information Sources for Australian Journalists provides some good resources, this one is worth a look … The Net Generation’s “aptitudes, attitudes, expectations,…
IWD: International Women’s Day & the IT industry
What a surprise- another year of women complaining that there are not enough women in the IT industry! We get the token female CEO or CIO to talk at our…
Daily Kos: I’m a Republican: Fuck you
There is a an interesting take on US politics on a site (of the Democratic persuasion one might imagine 😉 It seems the Democrats are so busy being cross that…
First education in Feminism
This is a story from my undergraduate days in one of Australia’s *sandstone universities. In the philosophy department there had been a split between the ‘old fashioned’ philosophers (called “Trad…
Alleged quote by Churchill: on being a socialist or conservative
Someone recently quoted Winston Churchill as saying “If a man is not a socialist by the time he is 20, he has no heart. If he is not a conservative…
Some thoughts of Ben Franklin (1790)
I have been reading Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography and other writings (ISBN: 0140390529) and his writings do stand well the test of time, as well as being quite entertaining to read.…