In recent days I have been going out to various ICT industry functions in Sydney. Two of the speakers stood out from the rest. The first was Robyn Henderson who spoke at the FITT networking session, and the second was Gordon Bell who spoke at the AVCAL breakfast. Each of these speakers is an expert in their field: Robyn is a networking specialist, who has authored 9 books on … Continue reading Out and about – Robyn Henderson & Gordon Bell
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 is alive and well – you just haven’t reached a high enough level in the corporate hierarchy to see it yet. “ The comment is welcome on several levels: 1) I love being told I’m … Continue reading Women and getting ahead in business
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 good non fiction stuff previously . Check out his website for more info http://www.logictivity.com/ Continue reading Reading a new book … Z
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 relationship with a non-human companion. This really resonated with me as I have learned to be more calm, patient and gentle since I started living with my dog companions. I like what the monks have … Continue reading Cool dog monks
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) and also to Collected Reactions from Participants Aggregated Feeds of Attendees: Great stuff for anyone interested in this new appraoch to “journalism”. Continue reading Transcripts: Harvard’s Blogging, Journalism & Credibility conference
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, and learning styles… reflect the environment in which they were raised” – the always-on, media-saturated world of chat, IM, email and the Web. Want to know more? EDUCAUSE) has a whole new e-book, called Educating the … Continue reading How Net Gen people think and learn
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 IWD lunches & we all shake our heads in horror that there are not more women in the industry. Why aren’t there more women in the IT industry? Perhaps because to get a start you … Continue reading IWD: International Women’s Day & the IT industry
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 they cannot focus on getting some policies that sufficient Americans will vote for (much like our own Labor Party here in Australia). Daily Kos :: I’m a Republican: Fuck you The Democrats and the Australian … Continue reading Daily Kos: I’m a Republican: Fuck you
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 & Mod Philosophy”, i.e. the logicians), and the ‘modern’ philosophers (called “General Philosophy”, i.e. the feminists, Marxists, etc.) I chose courses in the General Philosophy department, mainly because there were no exams in General Philsophy, … Continue reading First education in Feminism
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 by the time he is 40, he has no brain.” So decided to check the ‘trusty’ internet for the provenance of this quote, and as so often, someone else has already done the work. Mark … Continue reading Alleged quote by Churchill: on being a socialist or conservative
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