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Nick Hodge is a Professional Geek for Microsoft Australia. More info lives underneath the About Box...

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politics

Speed, Quality, Cheap. Pick any Two.

The 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 house […]

AU Developers in Political Sphere">Calling AU Developers in Political Sphere

ON-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 2.0 […]

Understanding Thailand Politics

(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 Stigherrian […]

ISP Filters">A Pragmatic Proposal: ISP Filters

Dear 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 Safety.
Cur­rent statements […]

PM at Hiroshima? For Shame.">First Australian PM at Hiroshima? For Shame.

From 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.
One day, maybe.

US Political Blogger in Australia">Matt Bai, US Political Blogger in Australia

Join 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 rise of […]

Australia is going to be stupider in 2008

Man­dat­ory 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 shite. […]

Australian Politics on G’day World 299.

Debat­ing 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 Geeks for […]

Fibre to the Dunny

 
(ori­ginal image)
With Aus­tralian Politi­cians using “Fibre to the Node” and “Fibre to the Home” as elec­tion ploys, I think It’s Time to raise the issue to a new level:
Fibre to the Dunny.
We should not rest until every Dunny in Aus­tralia has Fibre. Face it, that’s where the best brows­ing occurs.
Also, with Australia’s rising colorectal can­cer, an […]

Follow the Eyeballs. And the Money.

At the Hill and Know­lton “Sur­viv­ing and thriv­ing in the next dec­ade — Tech­no­logy Pub­lish­ing” Break­fast Bytes this morn­ing, a group of emin­ent pan­el­ists in pic­ture above, from the left:

James Tuck­er­man – Pub­lish­ing Editor, Ant­Hill. New rel­at­ively magazine about ideas, money and skills. Previously more print than online, but adding new online pro­jects later in 2007.
Heather Craven — […]