management & leadership
Recent experiences with two different telcos add up to the same thing - shockingly poor customer service. #1 There have been a series of problems with one of the web pages I'm associated with. The telco in question has DNS problems every other day such that the site
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Was on a judging panel for the Australian Consensus Software Awards yesterday. It is fascinating how much really good software is out there, innovative and clever stuff. The winners are not announced for a few weeks - but info will be on the Consensus site fairly soon. It is also
cybersecurity
There is an interesting commentary on women in security on www.oneeyedcrow.net "Okay, rant time. In quick succession, the subject of women in the security field has come up several times this week. Many of the male security geeks I know have no idea why there aren'
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Found a great quote about self esteem yesterday: "Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant." (J. Petit-Senn, Conceits and Caprices) This seems to encapsulate my feelings about the current obsession with building up self esteem even in the face of indubitable evidence as the individual'
gender & sexism
There are a number of womens' groups that I participate in, several of these are related to women in technology. The feeling seems to be that hardly any women are in positions of influence and that there is something wrong with this. There was a recent article by Bob
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Yippee!!!! It's raining & it has been doing this since last night. The heavy rain has put out the last of the fires near us. The house still smells strongly of smoke, but the sound of the rain is a great comfort. It's funny a friend
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We went for a drive north of the town at lunch time today - everything is burnt out & there are still small fires burning by the roadside. The main fires seem to be several valleys to the north west of us now, and with southerly winds we should be
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Good news! The road north & south of town is now open, but there are still smallish fires burning beside the road in both directions. There are repair crews everywhere along the highway, fixing power cables & phone lines. The heavy smoke from last night & this morning has dissipated
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Managed to get out of town to the south for church last night, but was afraid I might not be able to get back. As I left the fires were burning to the south of town & along the west side of the highway, right next to the road (quite
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Fires are still burning to the east, north west, south west & west of us - but no immediate threat to us. The air tankers have been water bombing the fires to the east of us all day. The road to the north is still closed as far as Hawksbury
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I knew it was a bad sign on Thursday when I went to the Rural Fire Brigade shed in the village & there were five NSW Fire Brigade trucks & their crews just hanging around waiting. And by Thursday night the fire from the south turned north east & surrounded