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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 [...]

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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 [...]

Second analysis of the budget using tag clouds, after key phrases have been coded so that “1.8 per cent per year per child per family” style phrases didn’t make ‘per’ the most common word.

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Sunday Night, I found myself loitering around the TF servers, and in a match where on the Red Team were between four and five members of the (GCS) clan, who are very good at what they do in TF2.  Sufficiently good at it to completely school my side for a [...]

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 [...]