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Mark Pesce, Only Connect

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

Hyper­em­power­ment. The theme of Mark Pesce’s open­ing key­note at Microsoft Australia’s ReMIX 2008, ‘Only Con­nect’
Now avail­able in video form, and tex­tual form.

AURemix08 is Here!

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Aus­tralian ReMIX08 is here! Sydney is first today. Mel­bourne in two days time.
And the little Quok­kas will make a small appear­ance in the the key­note. Watch closely, or you will miss them!
Fol­low me on twit­ter, or the hashtag #aure­mix for all the news if you are out there in the intar­webs.
If you are attend­ing, ensure you introduce […]

DG’s New Toy">DG’s New Toy

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Every quokka loves a new laptop. Even when the laptop is twice your weight, height and width.

DG and Maurice at CodeCampOZ">DG and Maurice at CodeCampOZ

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

DG Gets his Mesh on!">DG Gets his Mesh on!

Friday, April 25th, 2008

DG gets into the Live Mesh craze.

LOLCODE Contractor">quokka.two: LOLCODE Contractor

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

DG hires a wizened LOLCODE con­tractor to com­plete the low-level code for a new web site.

Mark Pesce: Keynoting Australian ReMIX 2008

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Credit: Dar­ren Sharp
This year’s key­note speaker at Australia’s second ReMIX is Mark Pesce. Like LOLCODE, Mark has his own, well deserved Wiki­pe­dia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Pesce
Aus­trali­ans in the inter­net com­munity would recog­nise Mark from his copi­ous writ­ings on free­dom, email, free/meshed wire­less. He is a thought leader amongst thought lead­ers in this web-centric world.
I’ve seen Mark present at […]

quokka.two: lamingtons + quokka-cola

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

DG is get­ting his Developer track ready for the second Aus­tralian ReMIX. Fueled by lam­ing­tons and Quokka-Cola, there is a storm of XAML build­ing.
Seats are going fast! Book today!

Tips and Techniques for Presentations

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

(photo by JJ)
As presen­ted at BarcampSydney3: 

Ima­gine the best presenter/presentation you have seen

This per­son has prac­tised more than once.
plan for the worst case scen­ario (no pro­jector, laptop nor audience)

know audi­ence, topic, environment

If you are not com­fort­able wit the topic, don’t present it

Theatre

pro­ject­ing your voice: always stand
volume levels: for any audi­ence above 4 people, you need to turn it […]

quokka.two: idle worship

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Who does DG look up to in the world?

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