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Bypass the Bureaucracy, Subvert the Hierarchy Comrades!
According to the ABC, semi-autonomous Federal Government agencies must clear their media releases with the Department of Prime Minister before releasing.
"The essence of the message was that the Government wanted to ensure a degree of consistency in message on key messages and therefore wanted to clear key messages through the Prime Minister’s office."
Shades of Yes, Minister in the above. What a giggle.
Just blog it, agencies. Bypass the Bureaucracy, Subvert the Hierarchy Comrades!
Palm Treo 750, Windows Mobile 6, Telstra
Project General Melchett: Stage 3
Cooling, cooling, cooling. I have become obsessed with airflow, fans, quietness and CPU temperatures. A cooler CPU and memory, and the faster you can make your PC.
The first major investment: Zallman CPU Fan replacement. The operation to install this into the CPU case took about an hour. Result: 5-7degC temperature drop in the CPU. The 8″ fan sucks are from the rear, and through copper fins to the front. The air cooling lowers CPU temperature, and therefore raises performance.
At the same time, I invested in 8Gb of Geil RAM. Nothing like having as much RAM as affordable in your new desktop machine. Along with the NVidia 8800GT, it’s a screaming machine. A grunkenstation.
The new desk arrived last weekend, and General Melchett fits neatly into the PC cupboard: hidden in the below picture.
The two 22″ Dell LCD monitors fit 10mm underneath the shelf.
Now I am ready to spend the summer basketweaving, testing Windows Vista x64 and other bits that are lying around at Microsoft. And blog about it, too.
Stilgherrian Rattles Their Cages
It is difficult to believe any organisation lives in the mid 20th Century.
Yet, Stilgherrian has found one. Maybe it’s his vet?
There will be a point where us Generation-X-ers start worrying about the future rather than the size of our LCD/Plasma screens. We’ll look to our parents and apologise for our self-centred-ness (whilst underneath blaming the me-generation of the 1970s) In our concern and worries, we’ll realise our kids are highly digitally socialised and our seniors are conversing with them. We’ve missed the boat. We’re in the generational chasm.
If you don’t get it, get Mike’s business to help. They’re not only native, they’re going feral.
Ahh, Christmas. Dontcha just love it? Brings out the Scrooge McDickens in all of us.
Home Server Pimpin’
My Windows Home Server just sits on my gigabit network, and well, works.
Since my last posting, I’ve added a 750Gb external hard drive bringing the total storage to something nearing 2Tb.
Others are pimpin’ their installations: a major shout out goes to Andrew Dugdell and his combo home MAME / Home Server.
Anti-Santa is cathartic
To all those subscribed to http://twitter.com/antisanta, I am sorry. I didn’t know about the twitter feed until I was about 50 in to my 118 posts. Getting to the top of the Miserable Bastards list became a transitory obsession for a few moments.
The Immersive Conversation
Thinking ahead of the game.
Scoble is leaving PodTech. Doing something else from mid-January 2008.
In his post he talked about live streaming/twittering and the conversation that results from immediate connectivity to an audience.
From Scoble’s post:
Another thing that opened my eyes? The Google Open Social press conference where I had the only video, thanks to Kyte.tv and my cell phone (they had asked for me to leave my professional camera in the car — funny that’s a story I’ve heard several times, including on the panel discussion yesterday where Jeff Pulver showed off video he shot on a small pocket camera of the recent Led Zepplin concert. He told the audience that Led Zepplin wants to buy his photos and videos because they were better than the professional ones).
Blogs, Video-Blogs, Podcasts emulate the old media. Push out. Wait for comments (aka letters to the editor). The immediacy is missing. There is too much latency between thought to feedback
Immersive Conversations.
Live-streaming/Live-twittering/Live-full immersion-SecondLife/Live un-meetings of the ilk as discussed on EEL recently is the next step. The technology is here permitting low-cost, high-bandwidth immediate two-way sessions.
In conversations with Cameron Reilly, this is exactly where his mind has been for some months.
The move is on.
Zen Thursday
If time in the universe was changing, would we notice?
Spouse 2.0 Day: http://www.spouse2.com/
Because Ashley Angell must be feeling somewhat guity for being a busy coder, we now have a day to help us all feel better.
Avril has put up with my twittering from strange places. I have decided to swear-off twitter until 2008. She’s a good wife, and I love her heaps.
As my wife is presently driving SCRLTT around Eastern Creek, slowly wearing away rubber: my other present will probably have to be new shoes for the MINI.
Go visit http://www.spouse2.com/ and join the cause!
Thanks, Ashley. You are a good bloke. Congrats MrsAshleyAngell!