This is posted via imified, from http://www.imified.com It feels so BBS to be able to post from IM to my blog. Not sure how I’ll use it, but the connectivity between services (via APIs) are powerful. Rock on!
Author: admin
Eurovision Season is starting
I don’t understand a word of this, but the central tenants of Geek hardware and reproduction are universal:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8PQnKdYh-0
According to Bruce Satchwell, hardware and radio geek from the Gold Coast, this is an example of a weird European hobby called Amateur Radio Direction Finding.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_Radio_Direction_Finding
I wonder if this hobby started like archery in the 11th through 13th century in England? English archers were revered through Europe due to their prowess. This was developed in villages from a young age. Maybe during the Cold War eastern bloc countries had their young radio geeks make RDF devices to stop the Capitalist west airborne intruders? I wonder.
Origins of Mindstorms
I’ve learnt something today: thanks to the new GeekDad blog. The origin of the phrase “Mindstorms”
Chuck seen in the Sydney Office!
Inside the Internode Games Network
Passion is difficult to hide.
Glenn and Kingsley from Internode have personal passions for gaming – and they jobs that take this passion and unleash it on the unsuspecting gamers in Australia.
Find out how to get a pingtime of 1, the inside of a server rack in a secret Adelaide location and why Kingsley uses moisturiser in this On10.net interview
Jeff Speaks on Wired Magazine Article
The quiet uberboss talks: Jeff Sandquist on the Wired Magazine article.
Larry Larsen, mini-uber-boss of Channel 10 has a video of one of the interviews Jeff experienced.
The Inside Story of Channel 9 and On10.net
From Wired “Gimme a B! Gimme an L! Gimme an… ” (Wired 15.04) . On10.net (or sometimes called Channel 10) is one of the “outputs” of the world-wide team I work for. Bunch of smart and enthusiastic people. Jeff is our quiet uber-boss.
This article describes the history behind Channel 9, and the new open-ness of Microsoft.
It’s interesting to be a part of the small team that’s changing the perception of Microsoft.
For the first time in 8 years…
For the first time in 8 years, Adobe has a set of major product releases, and I’m not there :-( Well, I don’t count Acrobat 8 as major. ‘Spose I should. I hardly use it anymore.
As I use Photoshop and Premiere Pro in production and anger daily (more than I ever did whilst working for Adobe!), I feel it even more. The OnLocation will save me another ratio of post-production (video->harddisk).
Getting this internet video thing down to a fine art.
Cool stuff. I am buying a Creative Suite CS3 Master Collection. Just want to keep up-to-date on my InDesign, since I was there from its public birth, through the troubled toddlerhood into teenage years and now adulthood.
I’m on Channel 9. MSDN Channel 9, that is
First of two interviews with the language & compiler gods of Queensland University of Technology. This was Wayne’s first on camera interview. And only my third highly tehnical-audience interview.
The Information World Ahead
From the Sydney Morning Herald:
Griffith University lecturer Kym Macfarlane believes today’s toddlers will enter a world that is incomprehensible to most of us. “Allowing children [access to] technology at an early age will allow them to be far more discerning and feel more comfortable with the technology they will need in the future,” Macfarlane says.
What technology and information changes do you forsee? How do you think schools can use these to help people get, manage and sift through information?