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I spent the morning at a seminar on politics and technology where noticable by the absence was the technology, and present by the ministerial load was the politics.
Three observations of the session
1. Senator Joe Hockey plays a character in Parliament.  Given he registered his own namespace domain name in 1996, he’s got geek [...]

Obama Knuckle Bump

June 10th, 2008

Disclaimer: I am a total comic book / cartoon superhero fanboy.  Wonder Twins and the *cartoon* version of the Thing aren’t exactly high brow in cartoon fandoms, and here’s me proudly touting my wares of LOLDEMOCRAT.

Form of…THE PRESUMPTIVE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE!

In which Team Obama becomes unstoppable and awesomely capable of lifting cars and throwing them at [...]

Vale Erick Wujcik

June 10th, 2008

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Erick Wujcik . . . creator of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles roleplaying game and the Amber Diceless RPG, died June 7. (via  Steve Jackson Games, Palladium press release)
Of the games in my collection, Palladium holds the pride of the pack.  Two of my all time favourite series are Wujicik creations, The Teenage [...]

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Another “Twitter is doomed” post because the system dropped below some magic marker line in the last week and probably has an uptime of 95%. (Royal pingdom scores it at 96%) Clearly it’s all over at 95% uptime.
Does anybody who writes about Twitter play World of Warcraft? They [...]

Six principles of leadership

April 23rd, 2008

As part of the Grad Cert assessment this semester, I was asked to formulate a list of six principles of effective leadership.  I chose to state them as series of named laws….named after a few recognisable captains of the cinematic genre (and my own law, of course)

You’re not the Commodore unless someone else buys you [...]

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