April 2008
41 posts
Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes... →
The (edited) transcription of the Clay Shirky Web 2.0 conference video
WatchClay Shirky at Web 2.0 Expo SF 2008 — “cognitive surplus”
The night roadworks in the street wouldn’t be half as disturbingly noisy if that one “worker” would just fscking SHUT UP!!
Weekend is over. School hols are over. Tomorrow is Monday. What more can I say?
Days I remember my Dad
Days I remember my Dad: September 19, his birthday January 28, the anniversary of his death April 25, Anzac Day Every day
At the Cenotaph, Martin Pl, for ANZAC Day Dawn Service.
Australia 2020 - Initial Report now available at
I want to live in the Australia of 2020 — as envisioned by the summit. What a wonderful country that will be!
Experiential Typography | One Day Poem Pavilion |... →
“the One Day Poem Pavilion demonstrates the poetic, transitory, site-sensitive and time-based nature of light and shadow”
That moment when a presenter waits for a computer or application to wake/start just before they start speaking — making silly comments about technology such as “is my computer going to work?” — is the new form of shuffling through papers (“it’s here somewhere”).
Watching 2020 summit…cld be a talk fest, but cld also be a pivotal moment in our history — hopefully, the latter, so a privilege to watch
Popetiquette -- thanks to Merlin Mann
Merlin Mann — well known for his productivitiy website 43 Folders — posts regularly on Twitter under the nick of hotdogsladies. And he is well worth following for his concise and witty writing. He has, perhaps, been watching too much coverage of the Papal visit to the USA, because he has been twittering frequently on the subject of “Popetiquette” — pronounced,...
Twitter: a conversation about real life
If twitter (and jaiku and pownce) is about conversations — and, at its best, it is — it can be tempting to think of it like some other internet conversations, like IRC or MSN chat. But thinking back to old IRC days, or watching my kids use MSN today, I see the difference. On twitter, there’s not a lot of the “afk”, “brb”, “sorry, was busy IRL”,...
Catching up with final “The Lab with Leo” eps not shown here after show cancelled…thanks to http://downthelab.com
iMac -> mini DVI-DVI -> XtremeMac DVI-HDMI -> Sony Bravia FTW! Who needs Apple TV?
New to (US) iTunes movie rentals: “Solaris”. Soderbergh, not Tarkovsky. Oh, please, how low can you go…iTunes movie rentals FAIL.
De-stressing via retail therapy
Lightning and torrential rain. Soccer match abandoned. Trapped in grandstand. Unsafe to leave
At Miss 16’s soccer
“work” features prominently in my tweetcloud. Probably as in “I really should do some work instead of twittering”.
Thinking of William Shakespeare and watching Star Trek Voyager make me think shoulder pads come into fashion about every 400 years.
itnews.com.au: “Microsoft…preparing…its latest operating software – codename Windows 7”. Wow, how long to come up with that codename?!!
Latte and mobile twitter before heading to work after meeting.
Any tech headline that mentions SpongeBob SquarePants gets my attention: http://xrl.us/bizsi
There’s nothing in my task list with a context of “lazy”, “couch”, or “cantbebothered”, so I guess I have nothing to do right now!
No daylight saved…it’s all spent…I’m spent…I’m done
Beer and a barbie on a pleasant autumn evening.
Fall back, fall back…3 becomes 2, 3 becomes 2. Extra hourof sleep, here I come!
Home from BarCamp with lots to think about and new tweeps to follow.
Great lunch at Market City food hall
At the library
Heading out to Barcamp Sydney
I’m going to need better than “what’s for breakfast” if you want me to follow you.
Woohoo!!! Passed my “Doctoral Assessment”! (an important milestone, but still a long way to go….)
Whoaa Sydney…thank you for the beautiful sunset, skyline sharp against a golden sky
The people of Zimbabwe and the leaders of the MDC have a message for you Mr Bush: peace and non-violence lay the only real path to democracy
Soccer taxi runs done. Time to get back in the kitchen and finish dinner.
March 2008
62 posts
All you whiners who hate the extra week of daylight saving…I’m loving it on a beautiful Sydney evening!
Some photos from the Sydney TWiT meetup today, with Leo Laporte.
At Sydney TWiT meetup with Leo Laporte
At Sydney TWiT meetup with Leo Laporte