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Con­ver­sa­tion vs. Noise

The title might sound like link­bait, pick­ing on some of the new darlings of social net­work­ing, but my ques­tion is should we be the ser­vices using them in com­bin­a­tion, flood­ing the chan­nels with a lot of noise and little chance of conversation.

Blank Gen­er­a­tion

It star­ted a couple of weeks beek read­ing Nath­an­ael B’s post on Gen Y work­ers in the Gen Y work­place. I thought I bet­ter check that I was Gen X before com­ment­ing, so off to the author­ity of wikipedia …

Ben tagged me with the my way home meme, and being busy last week, I ignored my feed reader until the week­end. I had ori­gin­ally thought I should do it in reverse, take the pho­tos on my way to work and reverse them, because I start work late and return home late in the dark at this time of year. I also chose to take the pho­tos last Monday, which was one of the few stormy days of the year and instead of rid­ing my push­bike to the train sta­tion, I took the bus. So here is my trip home on a stormy winter night.

Do I want one of those brand new 3G iPhone, YES. But I will wait until what will and see what is going to hap­pen with the offers by all the major tel­cos in Aus­tralia, before committing…

After the buzz of last year bar­camp in Perth and hear­ing so much about the recent Bar­camp Sydney 3 and the ini­tial Bar­camp Can­berra, I am so look­ing for­ward to another bar­camp in Perth. Well my pray­ers have been answered. Bar­Camp Perth 2.0 is on May 10 at Cent­ral TAFE, 140 Royal St, East Perth. Over […]

Yes­ter­day, I finally pos­ted on ENABLE­net, the free wifi at the State Lib­rary. I did men­tion that it had been reli­able and asked for feed­back on your exper­i­ences. Well guess what, today it had problems. …

Free wifi at the WA State Library

ENABLE­net is in the­ory still in trial mode and has not been pub­licly launched, but has been run­ning quietly for the past two months. Being open to dis­cov­ery and word of mouth has res­ul­ted in over 150 ses­sions a day in the past few weeks. As many people use the wifi on Fri­days, week­ends and pub­lic hol­i­days when the lib­rary is open for fewer hours as they do dur­ing the week.

There is an inter­est­ing mix of devices connecting …

For those of you old enough to remem­ber Mr Squiggle. He and his friends are vis­it­ing the State Lib­rary of West­ern Aus­tralia this month.

Be warned part of the dis­play area has be turned into a clas­sic early 70’s lounge room com­plete with a col­our scheme that looks like it was taken from this blog. So you can watch Mr Squiggle reruns in nat­ural sur­round­ings (and no I did not design it).

For those Aus­trali­ans that missed it, the Prime Min­is­ter announced the 2020 Sum­mit. Which is aimed at get­ting Australia’s 1000 bright­est minds to Can­berra to dis­cuss the long term future of Australia.

I have yet to pur­chase my copy of Leo­pard, but from a couple of com­ments on one of my pre­vi­ous posts on the XU870 and Tiger upgrades. It appears that upgrad­ing to Leo­pard also breaks XU870 sup­port out­side the US for the unwary.

I found a help­ful post of a Ger­man Mac users Google group. Roughly trans­lated (cour­tesy of Google translator):