General
We've got some exciting plans cooking in the cauldron over at Hiive Systems, and one of them involves replacing our existing config management system for deployments - a couple of config files separated into always changes and rarely changed parts - with something more scalable, dynamic while still
General
The Princes Hwy, the major road from Sydney, down the south coast of Australia's most populous state, New South Wales, ranges from suburban roads to freeways, and understandably, the speed limit along this road varies according to conditions. Through most of the suburban sections, this multi-lane road is
Unfortunately, the next month or two are likely to result in some form of legislation passing the Senate that results in all Australia's having their internet connections filtered using a mandatory, opaque system controlled by an agency of the Federal Government. Way back in January this year, after
Entrepreneurship
The third #publicsphere event was held in Wollongong yesterday (with nodes in Melbourne and Brisbane joining in). With all things that involve an open forum and public consultation, there will be some good bits, and some bits that don't quite do it for you. In terms of contributions
I was lucky enough this week to be a guest of the team from Kells at a lecture they ran in Wollongong, featuring the acclaimed Simon Longstaff from the St James Ethics Centre. The morning lecture, which went for about an hour, with more than half an hour of questions
General
News broke over the weekend (Australian time) covering the formal responses to the FCC's questions of Apple, AT&T and Google regarding the recent Google Voice debacle. Michael Arrington has written a really good piece on the responses of Apple, and he makes a compelling case that
Politics
While it might be compelling political theatre for the hungry Canberra media gallery, a studio audience at Q&A last week made it clear - enough with Ozcar already. Compared to the debate over the Emissions Trading Scheme, the (frankly separate, and first) debate over the targets we should
There's finally been a lot more people - influential people - waking up to the reality of what Apple has become: more evil, monopolistic and selfish than almost anyone else in the technology business. The fact their products are pretty and the company was once the underdog is
I've been planning to write a post on this for ages, but time has gotten away. Seriously. Since March the 26th. That's the day I felt politics in Australia be changed by the internet. It was the day Senator Conroy went on Q&A, the
I've been getting into using Facebook a lot more in the last week, spurred on by the need to prepare for my presentation during CeBIT's Webciety event about what enterprise software can learn from Facebook's incredible level of user adoption and engagement. With its
Well, I'm not really embracing stalking, but as a user of Google Maps on my mobile, I've been pretty intrigued by the concept of Latitude. One of my biggest frustrations when it first came out was they the only way to use it - through iGoogle
BusinessWeb
I'm writing a talk for the Enterprise conference at CeBIT, which tries to unpack what makes people spend hours and hours a week interacting with and updating Facebook, and what enterprise applications - particularly those that benefit from collaboration and which are often "higher level" tools