This is part of a series on the Dale Carnegie Public Speaking Course. Week 4 had two main topics: reducing worry, and enhancing relationships. As with all of the advice in the course, it was a mixture of some simple advice that doesn’t seem all that remarkable, and practical help… Read More
I was away at the snow during week 3, so I missed this session and will have to make it up later. I’ll let you know how it goes once I do the catchup session. Read More
I wish to offer an alternative to the Government’s recent proposal to require ISP level filtering of the internet. I propose the Wideband Occluding Operational Lens, or WOOL. I believe it will be just as effective, but at a vastly reduced cost. Allow me to explain. The Wideband Occluding Operational… Read More
I finally got around to fixing the timezones for the Zope server. I’ve done this before for other servers, but hadn’t for the personal one, for some reason. Kudos to Andrew Milton for responding to my query to the OzZope mailing list last year explaining how: Zope DateTime sucks.It’s looking… Read More
This week we did more memory exercises, specifically a pegging technique for remembering a list of up to 9 things, in order. The technique was introduced by way of a demonstration: 2 group leaders who had done the course before got up and stood behind an easel. The facilitator then… Read More
This appears to be the belief of a predominantly car driving press in recent months. An article in today’s Age reported that a cyclist who was involved in an accident with a pedestrian in Mentone last August, while taking place in the ‘Hell Ride’, was fined $400. The Magistrate made… Read More
This is part of a series on the Dale Carnegie Public Speaking Course. I started the Dale Carnegie course this week. The first night was an introductory night that seemed designed to just let people settle into the idea of being there, and to think about why. We started off… Read More
For years I’ve wanted to build a tool that helps you to manage configuration in a heterogeneous environment. I’ve been frustrated by the myriad of vendor specific tools for managing configuration on their devices, and the state of the art hasn’t really advanced all that much in the 8 years… Read More
I *think* I’ve correctly enabled comments now. Zope’s security model was overriding the Blog product’s security that I’d set to allow comments, proving that Zope is indeed a powerful, if mysterious, beast. My sincere apologies if you’ve attempted to comment in the past, but have been rebuffed by the software… Read More
Today I had a meeting that involved talking to someone on the other end of a conference phone. The phone was one of those triangular lumps that live on the meeting room table like a three limbed starfish that has branched out into teleconferencing. One of the problems with teleconferencing… Read More
