The Oakleigh State Primary School holds the Discover Oakleigh School Fair each year. A highlight of the Fair is the Oakleigh Cup – a “horse” race that gets hearts pumping (literally), sees very small fortunes made and lost and generally generates much excitement across the school community. There are two races: one for “fillies . . . → Read More: Oakleigh Cup 2011
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One of my great pleasures in life is to wander the stacks of a good book store. The experience is even better in second hand book stores, where the possibility of a bargain purchase lurks in the back of ones mind. For example, on a recent visit to Washington DC I found myself wandering . . . → Read More: Missing bricks & motar book stores Over on Wired.com is an interesting post called How to fly the Harrier jump jet. Don’t expect instructions on what to do once you’re in the cockpit – the post contains parts of the recently de-classified AV-8B’s flight manual. I found the following few points interesting: The Harrier is one of a small number . . . → Read More: How to fly the Harrier jump jet So the Health Informatics Society of Australia‘s (HISA) annual Health Informatics Conference (HIC 2010) is over for another year. A few observations/thoughts following the annual health informatics fire hydrant that is HIC: NEHTA is still getting a lot of bad press. An example is Trish Greenhalgh‘s comment “To be honest, I am bloody confused . . . → Read More: HIC2010 washup Another “blast from the past” this week. This time it’s not The WOE Continuing, but “Another DSTC success story” as we Alumni like to say :-) A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away I was fortunate enough to work at DSTC and be part of a software engineering team that build . . . → Read More: The RecordPoint continues I was one of +150(?) people who turned up at Microsoft’s Brisbane office (one of the shiny buildings on the river in the CBD) for YOW! Nights last night. Pam Fox (Google) and Erik Döernburg (ThoughtWorks) both gave talks about Google APIs and build systems. Pam’s an entertaining speaker, although the content of the . . . → Read More: YOW! Nights Brisbane I’m a subscriber to the value investing newsletter, The Intelligent Investor (II). In their 2 Jul 2010 podcast, the II team briefly discussed Adelaide Brighton Cement Limited (ASX:ABC), a building materials company that manufactures cement and clinker. It turns out the team didn’t know anything about clinker and there was interest in the broader . . . → Read More: A little about clinker Rob Dew, my MBA lecturer for GSN460 Creative Problem Solving, has turned up on ABC Radio National’s Future Tense program. GSN460 was one of the better subjects in the MBA and you pick up a sense of the subject in the podcast. There are a bunch of nice creative problem solving materials on Rob’s . . . → Read More: Rob Dew on Future Tense Once upon a time, way back in 2003 when I lived in London, I worked at whereonearth.com (aka. WOE, see also Wikipedia). WOE produced location-based software that (amongst other things) made “Where’s my nearest?” features work on Hutchison 3G mobile networks. WOE got bought by Yahoo! in late 2005 but it’s only recently I’ve . . . → Read More: The WOE continues There’s an inside joke at the BGSB amongst staff and students. In response to a question from a lecturer like the following (completely made up) : As the case suggests, there is conflict between the founder and chairman and the CFO about the restatement of financial statements, the acting CEO seems distracted by her . . . → Read More: It depends… |
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