Archive for July, 2006
« Previous EntriesMonday Rant #1. Telstra.
Monday, July 31st, 2006Monday Rant: We are so close to a Telstra Cell/landline Exchange that to microwave a cup-of-tea, all we have to do is hold the mug outside our bedroom window for about 30 seconds. Hot mug of tea. Yet the ADSL2 install for this area is "on the schedule" for sometime next year! [...]
First Day of Self-employment
Monday, July 31st, 2006About 21 years ago, before sitting my "final" exams I knew I had a full-time job. Thanks to Tim Kleemann now owner of Next Byte, the IT industry had sucked me in. January 6th, 1986. I was working for the man.
20 years on...and for the first time in my employable life, I am technically [...]
Stop bogarting the internet
Sunday, July 30th, 2006From OSCON
To bogart: To hog something which is supposed to be shared.
The bus factor the degree to which something may fail when someone gets proverbially run over by a bus. Managers must consider this in their planning.
embiggen to make bigger.
Source:How Open Source Projects Survive Poisonous People. Or Snakes in a Project.
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Mr. McHugh
Saturday, July 29th, 2006Mike McHugh attempts Obscure Aussie InDesign humor on the world, and wins.
The first video-cast I watched was Mike. He's a star with Photoshop - email him and ask him to post more hints retouching cars for print; and also with the whole Creative Suite.
He's a mad keen surfer living in Victoria. I think [...]
Hodge History goes Windows Live
Saturday, July 29th, 2006Hodge Family History in Windows Live Local Maps. Added some notes, for comments from those who might know more about the History of Melville Hodge.
A project over the last 2 months has been to research the history of one Melville Hodge. Born in 1803 in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland (yes, this is the home of [...]
Liam goes YouTube
Saturday, July 29th, 2006Falling Cars
You might need to be a Battlefield 2 fan to get it.
Created by Premiere Pro, Fraps and Battlefield 2.
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Creativity++
ROI on MBA
1968
Movie: Kurt Cobain About a Son.
07:364:23:59:59, Press [Pause]
Friday, July 28th, 2006Adobe. 8 years. Yes, this post is going to be a little different.
On my -1'st day at Adobe, I jump on a plane and head to the US for Application Engineer training. Whilst some industries call this a Systems Engineer style job, at Adobe you are demonstrating and integrating applications. Along with a host [...]
Graphs and Sheets
Wednesday, July 26th, 2006State of the Computer Book Market, Q206 details in a TreeMap 2D graph the rise of C# and Ruby, decline of Java as languages.
In typical MBA fashion, I am enamored with the graph. How do you create these style of graphs? How does the set of data need to be formatted? The graph is an [...]
Our Descendants will be the Pets of a Future Singularity
Tuesday, July 25th, 2006Man-Machine Merger Arriving Sooner Than You Think on the Singularity. Mind expanding stuff. Vernor Vinge and Cory Doctorow. Originally posted on BoingBoing Vernor Vinge and Cory on the Singularity on NPR
This stuff gets my mind going in different directions. Augmented humans, instant access to information. Our children's lives will be shaped by how to access, [...]
Largest Public Flex App: Australia: 1 vs. World: 0
Monday, July 24th, 2006Adobe Flex 2.0 was announced in June 2006, and it's on my list of "things" to spend some quality time with over the next few months. Building something more interesting that flat web pages; with AJAX, Flex and WPF is a key "learning point" whilst offline.
RocketBoots, a strong supporter of Adobe and its technology have [...]
