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Being a geek, it is no surprise that my monitor (an Acer X223W) is bigger than my (Teac analogue) television. It therefore made sense that rather than upgrading my TV with a set top box, to investigate what's on the market to receive HDTV on…
The Making Links 08 conference was held this week at the University of Melbourne. The tagline of the conference is 'where social action and technology meet' - and the delegates are primarily from the community, not for profit, activist and educational sectors. I decided to…
The 'Go Girl - Go for IT!' event was held at Deakin University's Burwood campus on 28-29th October and saw over 1200 secondary school girls attend dozens of presentations by women in IT, who spoke of their career directions and aspirations. Organised by Victorian Women…
Those of you familiar with Kepner Tregoe problem solving will have come across the standard format used to describe problems - object-deviation. An object is the "thing" that is experiencing a deviation. A deviation occurs where there is a positive or negative difference between an…
Further to this post, the presentation I gave at Software Freedom Day in Melbourne is now available. It is a brief presentation, as most of it was demonstrating WordPress and Alice. Unfortunately I had a few hiccups on the day, and it was only with…
I often rant express poor customer service experiences in this blog, so thought it was only fair to put on record a very positive customer service experience. I hold two domains with two separate providers (in case one provider is down), and one of those…
Peter Baker and Donna Benjamin (with only a little bit of help from me I have to admit) have been hard at work putting the finishing touches on the preparations for Software Freedom Day in Melbourne. We have a great venue this year - The…
I recently bought a cheap USB Bluetooth dongle because my older Acer TravelMate 4070 came without Bluetooth support. Big mistake. The dongle (a Laser N1968) ships with BlueSoleil - a suite of Bluetooth drivers for windows. My Nokia 6110 Navigator and PC Suite simply hate…
Kathy Reid questions the usefulness of Kepner Tregoe problem solving within ITIL Problem Management.
Randy Pausch was a pioneer in virtual reality and died from pancreatic cancer in July 2008. His Last Lecture at Carnegie Mellon University was inspirational.