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My First STUB

Joseph on Oct 30th 2008

Had a lovely social in The Beresford Hotel in Sydney Wed night, thanks to a tip-off from the lads at Happener, with some charming ad interesting bods. I really love this friendly city and the open warm connections it is possible to make here. Anyway, the group is called a STUB, is for Sydney twitterers [...]

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IKEA and MSI and getting your customer right

Joseph on Oct 29th 2008

I love IKEA!
That’s a big thing to say after blogging nothing for a few months. In particular since it has nothing to do with the www, at least at first glance. But it does, in a way, because, in my mind, almost everything has to do with the internet. It does have to do with [...]

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Where we touch

Joseph on Jul 4th 2008

I was inspired today by being an inspiration.
I guess I should explain.
In the distant past, I used to be a photographer, before I took up the keyboard. My main forte was still life and small objects, nature isolated. You may recall at the start of this blog in the first posting, I wrote that my [...]

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Act in haste, repent at leisure

Joseph on Jun 24th 2008

I just found out first-hand what that means.
I posted a comment to an article on a popular UK newspaper’s website. (Don’t ask - I’m not tellin’!). The thing is, I empathised what the writer was writing about in broad terms, and, as a good leftie, wanted to add my un-expert three pence worth. So I, [...]

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internet, outer space, open source and the new open space

Joseph on May 27th 2008

I Read an interview with Mark Shuttleworth, a personal hero of mine, in The Guardian last night.
A fascinating story of how he wants technology to help people, but not in that overbearing, paternalistic sense but in a more fraternal, assistive way. Having done some very interesting things, like spending $20 million on a trip into [...]

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get me outta here!

Joseph on May 19th 2008

I just booked a romantic holiday for two, on a remote island in Fiji, where there’s no electricity, the food is local and the beach is all ours, literally.  There is only one Bura (we call ‘em huts round here!) and one dining space and  the nearest village is a hike around the island. The [...]

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Visionary A C Clarke passes into the void

Joseph on Apr 12th 2008

I am of the age where the Apollo project, and humanity’s expedition to the moon, holds a great and lasting fascination that has not diminished and forms a strong basis for my core being. My view of technology, humanity, the planet and the universe are all strongly influenced by those live TV transmissions in 1969, [...]

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