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 [...]

Zemanta breaks the silence on Battlestar Galactica!

For some reason, my post about BSG over at Designated Sidekick resulted in Zemanta’s automated content recommendation system recommending BSG tags, and Robert Scoble. I suspect it’s true that Scoble is the last cylon. I mean, look at his empathy with machines (or social media software), and his [...]

Snowtrooper, my semi-intrepid Dell keeled over from a bad case of USB drivers the other night, forcing me to repair the WinXP from the master CD. On the upside, running a fully legitimate rig meant having a recovery disc.
The downside was on the reboot, and the discovery that WinXP wouldn’t update. The reason? Microsoft [...]