For the next few days most of the tech news will be able Vista and its assocaited products, yawn. There has been so much press for Vista in the last few months I have had enough. Let’s just skip the first couple of months to get over the security updates, compatibility issues, hardware upgrades etcContinue reading “Tech news flash – Vista is available, move on”
Monthly Archives: January 2007
Using Twittering for your job hunt
We have had a sacking being announced via Twitter, now job ads. Gian is looking for an accessibility expert for a bit of work so she advertised it via her circle of friends on Twitter:- “Gian: anyone in Melbourne available for two weeks accessibility work?” Twitter is just another network of contacts you can useContinue reading “Using Twittering for your job hunt”
Get your career off the ground!
I got an email today from Emily of CareerJet letting me know about their new vertical search engine for Australia. They have a few jobs listed 284,302 jobs in Australia, which seems a lot but probably not all of them. For example Seek has 134,450 jobs listed. The user interface is a little “old school”,Continue reading “Get your career off the ground!”
Nortel launches a corporate blog
Today (or yesterday depending on your timezone) Nortel launched our first external blog being written by John Roese our new CTO. The blog has all the expected features of a blog, RSS, trackbacks, comments (yes they are moderated) and is running WordPress. Great to see!
Twitter down??
It seems to me either Twitter is down or they are having some serious technical issues. This morning Twitter has been very slow when looking at profiles and I have received no updates via IM or SMS. I have just gone to look at my profile and my browser just hangs. Maybe it is becauseContinue reading “Twitter down??”
Twitter update and bots
First up I am really enjoying Twitter, can’t really explain why maybe it is the “real” social interactions going on. However I enjoyed it far more when I received SMS updates of what my friends were doing, this seemed to have died over the weekend. I feel like I have been left out in theContinue reading “Twitter update and bots”
Ottawa DemoCamp
I wonder if anyone from Nortel will be going to the Ottawa DemoCamp, they should be if we are going to reinvent this once great company! I’d go but I am on the other side of the planet which sucks. (I used sucks in tow consecutive posts, cool!)
The windsurfer and user experience
This post is part rant and part non-rant about two topics that I feel passionate about. First up windsurfing (which becomes skiing during the winter months but that is another story), and the second user experience. First up, I was windsurfing again yesterday, 20 knots winds from the south to south west, a bit likeContinue reading “The windsurfer and user experience”
Digital Photography and Flickr
During the Christmas break we bought a new camera, a Canon PowerShot A710 a very nice piece of kit. Not the smallest camera on the market but in my mind one of the best, before you get into the SLR range. 6 x optical zoom Optical image stabiliser 7.1 Mega pixels Optional lens conversions LotsContinue reading “Digital Photography and Flickr”
Cisco Sues Apple Wow who would have guessed!
As I said yesterday the lawyers will be busy over the next few days. Obviously things weren’t all that sweet with the Apple/Cisco relationship, Cisco is now suing over the iPhone. The thing is forget the legal definitions most of the world sees Apple as already owning the iPhone brand given the iMac, iPod, iTVContinue reading “Cisco Sues Apple Wow who would have guessed!”
Michael Specht 