- View from my Hotel Room, TechEd 2010
- 2010: Voting for Liberals
- Day 2 Keynote, Pycon-au
- Absolute Power
- Shibuya, Photosynth
- You are being watched.
- Long Love Affair with Lego
- Experimenting with visitmix.com lab’s Gestalt
- Saint Shenanigans
- Speed, Quality, Cheap. Pick any Two.
- State of Software Design in NSW HSC
- It is not the Apple Tablet, it is the Store
- Facial Update
- Why the Quietness?
- What does Transparency mean to me?
- The long search for the perfect WPF Twitter Client. Over.
- #auteched week begin
- Twenty Years Ago Today
- Where is Nick?
- Sanity Prevails
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« Previous Entries2010: Voting for Liberals
Thursday, August 19th, 2010In a G’day world podcast I appeared on in 2007 I stated I was voting Liberal. It should come as no surprise I am doing the same in 2010 At the beginning of Tony Abbott’s reign as leader of the Federal Liberals, I will admit I was uncertain of his ability to be the Prime Minister […]
Absolute Power
Monday, May 31st, 2010From Richard Farmer’s “Chunky bits” in today’s crikey.com.au: I know that Lord Acton had papal infallibility in mind when writing to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887 but given the flaunting of their Christianity by our two alternative political leaders that perhaps just makes his words more appropriate: “I cannot accept your canon that we are […]
Speed, Quality, Cheap. Pick any Two.
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010The Hon. Peter Garrett, member of Midnight Oil and member for Kingsford-Smith is presently under-the-gun over the management of the Energy Efficient Homes Package. It seems out of the old adage: speed, quality, cheap: pick any two that the department chose just speed. From ABC1’s Q & A last night, members of both sides of the […]
AU Developers in Political Sphere">Calling AU Developers in Political Sphere
Thursday, January 29th, 2009ON-LINE CAMPAIGN TOOLS — OPPORTUNITY While our keynote and discussion will be invaluable to anyone interested in democracy and communication in the first half of this century I also wanted the forum to be an opportunity for a look at practical examples of new technology tools. To that end I’d like to invite any developers, web […]
Understanding Thailand Politics
Sunday, November 30th, 2008(ps: the Siamese Cat in the above poster is in fact a Korat) A watcher of byzantine and machiavellian politics, the situation in Thailand is providing an interesting demonstration of power wielded by history, tradition and might vs money, corruption and popular politics. Neither side is clean, and neither side is completely right. Thanks to […]
ISP Filters">A Pragmatic Proposal: ISP Filters
Friday, November 14th, 2008Dear Australian Federal Politicians re: Australian ISP Internet Filters As a parent, a technology industry veteran and citizen who works via the Internet, I feel it is my duty to provide a pragmatic perspective on the Federal Government’s proposed plans to adopt Mandatory Filtering of Australian Internet Service Providers (ISPs) for the benefit of Child […]
PM at Hiroshima? For Shame.">First Australian PM at Hiroshima? For Shame.
Monday, June 9th, 2008From the ABC: “Rudd lays wreath for Hiroshima victims” Mr Rudd is the first Australian prime minister to visit Hiroshima’s Peace Park and Memorial. How embarrassing for Australia. Why has no other Prime Minister visited Hiroshima? Incredulous. On the other hand, I wonder if a Japanese Prime Minister will visit the Thailand-Burma Railway and apologize. […]
US Political Blogger in Australia">Matt Bai, US Political Blogger in Australia
Saturday, May 24th, 2008Join Government, business leaders and political bloggers for Australia’s inaugural Politics & Technology Forum, brought to you by Microsoft Australia. Quick details: Date: 25th June 2008, Time: morning, Location: Hyatt, Canberra For the first Forum, Microsoft is hosting keynote speaker Matt Bai, author and political writer for New York Times magazine. Matt will address the […]
Australia is going to be stupider in 2008
Monday, December 31st, 2007Mandatory censorship is bad. Strange day for an announcement: a day when the powers-that-be deliver our deserved bread and circuses. Who decides what is good or bad? We each have our own definitions of good and bad. I saw the Coen brothers film a few days ago, No Country for Old Men: it was absolute […]
Australian Politics on G’day World 299.
Sunday, October 28th, 2007Debating with Cameron Reilly is like fighting an intellectual tornado. Thankfully I was being grilled after a bottle of merlot. In the instance of this podcast, I am speaking for myself not my employer (which I make clear in the podcast) In retrospect, the discussion could go on for another 30 minutes: the concept of […]
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