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Archive for February, 2007

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Update on APC’s Geek Gear Story

Saturday, February 24th, 2007

Tony Sarno has posted an update on the Geek Gear Store live e-commerce experiment underway at APC.
On Issue 7 "Where is the word 'Nerd' in the branding?" ... the nerd/geek four letter word divide is best characterised by the movie "Revenge of the Nerds". 'nuf said. In NZ, nerd might be an OK term, in [...]

Berno and Baldrick are blog-famous!

Saturday, February 24th, 2007

Baldrick, my new Black Zune, was kidnapped by Berno this week. If anyone has seen either, please contact me at progeek@microsoft.com
You will also notice Berno has fans!

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Exercising your Mind with Dr Neil Roodyn

Friday, February 23rd, 2007

10 minute Podcast from Dr Neil (Dr Neil's Notes 0043) . It is worth a listen, for more reasons than I was mentioned!

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Learning how to Phrogram

Friday, February 23rd, 2007

Phrogamming: the telling a computer (rather than your brothers/sisters/pets) what to do is both fun; and a potential career choice.
Languages that you may have read about: C# (that's cee-sharp), Java and C++  (cee plus plus) are big first steps. Like learning to drive a car: you start with some of the basic rules, and progress [...]

VP Dick in town for Mardi Gras?

Friday, February 23rd, 2007

US VP Dick Cheney is in Sydney town for talks with Australian politicians (here is why). I doubt he will meet with the real Australian hoi-polloi. Mardi Gras ends next weekend, so I am expecting Dick to stick around.
This week has been total traffic chaos after the shenanigans of the two Queens arriving in Sydney. [...]

Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" over Silicon Valley

Friday, February 23rd, 2007

Telstar Logistics, who have a "hug an engineer" posting, also have some interesting photos flying over Silicon Valley, California.

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Scoble Interviews Young Geek

Friday, February 23rd, 2007

From the Scoble Show, View of a Young European Developer:

Sebastian Moser, a 20-year-old Austrian developer who has been programming since he was 14. He's working on starting a company, you can read more about that at looocal.wordpress.com, and tells us his view of all things geeky and European.

It is a 44 minute vodcast.
Creating a web-based [...]

A geek girl book to read

Friday, February 23rd, 2007

This link is thanks to our geek-father, Robert Scoble.
If you are a geek-girl: you are not alone, and there are plenty of female geek-ers around. Go to amazon, and have a look at this book called She's Such a Geek: Women Write About Science, Technology, and Other Nerdy Stuff. Better yet, get your library to [...]

I exist: Wikiality of Technology Evangelism

Friday, February 23rd, 2007

Technology Evangelist exists in Wikipedia, therefore I exist. Or at least, I can now put "Evangelist" onto my tax returns, customs forms and other official documents and know that there is an independent source.

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start to be a geek, today!

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

What is start_geek?
Let me start with a story; my story. Growing up in a small town in the country (or, outback) of Australia - I though I was the only geek in the village. I loved books, science, computers, radio, electronics, model making, lego and basically everything that all my fellow classmates detested. Now I [...]

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