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Recently I visited the site in Flanders where John McCrae wrote the famouns pomen In Flanders Fields. It is at the Essex Farm Aid Station only a few kilometres from Ieper (aka Ypres). I visited on a cold, muddy and miserable day. The concrete bunker where the medicos triaged the
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I have taken some time out from business meetings in Europe to make something of a personal pilgrimage in the steps of my ANZAC ancestors. It has been a very moving and very sombre experience. To see the tiny spaces of land fought over in World War 1 that resulted
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Since I am traveling around there is not always the time or the internet access to blog as often as I would like. Instead I'm sharing links to resources that are guiding my journey via Pearltrees: http://cdn.pearltrees.com/s/embed/getApp
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It was fascinating to take the time and think back to the days of the Y2K bug and discuss what happened (and some of the crazy hype that went on) with Paul Wallbank, Prof. John Quiggin on Radio National's Future Tense program with Antony Funnell. You can listen
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One question that I am often asked when speaking to groups about the digital revolution is "what about privacy?" This is usually in relation to social media and social networking. Privacy comes from the Latin word privatus: Roman lawLatinadjectiveprivatuspublicusRoman people (populus Romanus)Wikipedia This question fascinates me. Privacy
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A good example of the fellow feeling across the Tasman for ANZAC day and all that it means is the speech by the New Zealand Governor-General, Dame Silvia Cartwright, at the 2004 ANZAC Day Dawn Service: "The presence of so many children and young men and women at ANZAC
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It seems appropriate this ANZAC Day to share a good online resource. Thus I commend to people the Australian National Archives site called Mapping our ANZACS. It provides a way to browse 375,971 records of service in the Australian Army during World War I according to the person’s
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Today is Ada Lovelace day, the day that women around the world celebrate the achievements of women working in technology. While I could write about a woman in technology - there are many whom I admire here in Australia - instead I am putting out a call for documentation of
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Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943 It is easy to look at a statement like this and poke fun. Hindsight is a wonderful thing! But as I have said on many occasions - innovation always comes unexpectedly & from the periphery. Very often the innovation is not a completely new
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Today is my grandmother's birthday. She passed away many years ago, but in so many ways she is with me everyday. Until I was quite grown up she did not have any other name for me than 'Nan'. But as I grew I learned that her
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This month is the 65th anniversary of the D Day landings in France and on June 6th, as a kind of remembrance, I watched the film Overlord. The film brought back memories of my visit to Normandy late last year. Walking over the ground where the landings happened was very
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Got up early this 6th June and went off to the Sydney Film Festival showing of Overlord. This is a rarely seen film based on Operation Overlord, the code name for the Allied invasion of Normandy, which was launched on D-Day 6th June 1944. It is a fascinating film, interweaving