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Thursday, October 01, 2009 1:42 PM

The more important question is…

  Who prints their slides in 2009?
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Monday, May 25, 2009 3:00 PM

woah.

So, it turns out that Wolfram Alpha has become aware… and dived straight into geek humour…    
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 2:08 PM

The Ultimate Decision Support System?

I did some wiki-reading on advances in decision support systems (Cognitive Science is a personal interest of mine. It is like psychology or artificial intelligence with the hardware abstracted). It struck me that these systems are in use by another name…
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Sunday, October 26, 2008 2:21 PM

Sydney in Miniature

I read this article on the Sydney Morning Herald website, and it was so good I had to share it. While I have seen plenty of tilt shifted photos, I think the combination of time lapse photography makes it freakily surreal! The North Wind Blew South from
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Wednesday, March 05, 2008 9:54 AM

Does Australia value Technologists?

I'm in a tell-it-how-it-is mood today. Are we just a nation of sheep shearers and miners? Here is a snapshot of a reputable Australian newspaper's IT section: D&D co-creater dead. While tragic, this guy was hardly a technology pioneer, it was all
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Tuesday, March 04, 2008 10:11 AM

braindump...

I haven't blogged for a while, so I will just stream out what is front of mind lately... Seattle is smaller than I imagined. It reminded me of Adelaide, but with less good wine. Its bizarre to think that Boeing, Starbucks, Amazon.com and Microsoft are
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Thursday, January 17, 2008 10:18 AM

Email abuse

An actual conversation overheard on the local Exchange Server (only the names have been changed to protect the innocent):   From: Smart-a$$ Australian  Sent: Thursday, 17 January 2008 12:58 PM To: PIFEM Practitioners Subject: RE: STOP REPLY
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008 12:11 PM

rumors, trumors and guerilla marketing

The shipping seven blog makes for interesting reading... is it true? is it another fake blog? is it a reverse-psychology IBM blog? Who knows. Anyways, I am really proud to be able to share with you an early build of "7". Okay, so it is DOS 7.
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Thursday, January 10, 2008 4:29 AM

how times have changed

A laptop gets bad points for the following: No subwoofer Dell XPS M1530 Review - Laptops
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Monday, December 17, 2007 11:10 AM

Geocollaboration: cool features of Live Search Maps

Okay, okay, I promised Geocollaboration, part 2 - but you'll have to wait a little longer. I want to show off some of my favourite features of Live Search Maps . Satellite Images are all well and good if you are orbiting the planet - but often we want
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Saturday, December 15, 2007 1:09 PM

What my December looks like

Hence the infrequent blog posts lately. Sorry! In other news, QANTAS, Virgin Blue and Cabcharge shares rose by about a bazillion points.
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Monday, November 19, 2007 9:01 AM

Aussie dollar steals Christmas

All I want for Christmas is a 20" laptop notebook portable foldable all-in-one . Is that too much to ask? Hey look, here is just the one at HP AU: HP Pavilion HDX Entertainment Notebook PC - 2.6GHz Core 2, 2GB ram, 2 x 200GB 4200RPM HDD. Oh darn
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Sunday, October 28, 2007 10:53 AM

Robert Downey Jr is Tony Stark

I just saw the trailer for the upcoming Iron Man movie... looks good, and even funny. Iron Man is the thinking man's super hero. No special powers, lots of special problems and a penchant for robot suits. What is not to like? Check out the trailer below:
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Sunday, October 07, 2007 8:35 AM

Facebook killing Blogs?

Twelve months ago, everybody (+ dog) was blogging - these days it seems like the pace of posts is really starting to drop. Was blogging a fad, and have people turned their attention to new fads? It would seem a shame for the firehose of human creativity,
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Saturday, September 08, 2007 2:26 PM

Getting started with Microsoft Word(s)

I've been with Microsoft for about five weeks now (but only about 3 weeks of face time at the Sydney Office) - as a recent resident of Sydney, my whole life pretty much revolves around work at the moment - I haven't yet settled in. I had dinner with friends
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