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 [...]

The first half of the semester is over, and it’s two weeks of non class time to recapture lost momentum in the research pool, bolster the ranks of the productivity inducing schemes, and generally spent 14 days without standing in front of a class.  As much as I love teaching, there’s some quality time to [...]

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B3TA : FEATURES : HOW TO POACH AN EGG
Scientific method meets breakfast, and the winner is poached eggs
Composer of the Classic Electronic Track, Popcorn, Playing it 40 years later, on a Grand Piano

Popcorn is the grand parent of all things techno. Rejoice in the glorious hightechness of the original, and the technology unplugged [...]