I have been on a bit of a self imposed (and not so self imposed) break. I have just not been motivated to either blog or read my feeds. The reasons, several:- Firstly. Over the last 3 months I have not found many really, really cool things. There have been cool things but nothing really,Continue reading “Lost and found and everything in between”
Author Archives: Michael Specht
HRIS Utilisation Survey
NSW TAFE is conducting a survey in conjunction with Competitive Edge Technologies (CET) into HRIS Utilisation within Australia (Australian companies only). If you are an Australian company please take the survey, it only takes about 10 minutes, HRIS Utilisation Survey
Are you a Bozo?
Guy Kawasaki talks a lot about bozo’s in his books and speeches. Today I saw him roll out the GBAT (Guy’s Bozofication Aptitude Test) a tool for determining bozosity. Some smart people (with way too much time on their hands) have created an online version.
How to evangelize HR
Today one of the most popular corporate sports is to dump on HR. In the 90’s the IT department took the heat, while they are not immune to the sport they seem to have risen above HR as a target. Some of fixes we all talk about is “being strategic”, “adding value”, “providing an ROI”Continue reading “How to evangelize HR”
I’m back
I have returned from the hazy of a Go-Live weekend and the preceding mop up. All in all a very successful process with no major issues.
The night shift
Yes I have disappeared, and yes I will reappear. We just have a little project at work that goes live this weekend. I have pulled the short straw and am working the night shift controlling the data conversion and communications with the client. Back sometime next week. (It looks like we will be using aContinue reading “The night shift”
links for 2006-02-17
News in Science – Hands off Kazaa, say online advocates – 16/02/2006 Monday 20 Feb is when the appeal is to begin between Kazaa and ARIA, an interesting battle. An interesting quote from EFA vice-chair, Dale Clapperton, “If this type of precedent is allowed to stand, it’s essentially going to give the record labels aContinue reading “links for 2006-02-17”
links for 2006-02-14
Technical Careers @ Microsoft : The Evolution of a Programmer Jim provides us a great post on the evolution of a programmer, while not his originally it is very very good. Go to the original (http://www.icarus.net/johnjo/evolutio.htm) and have a look at his other text. (tags: programmer fun humour) Your IT Company’s Biggest Enemy Another digContinue reading “links for 2006-02-14”
Listings from the edge
Over the last month or so I have been watching with great interest the growing buzz over Edegio. Last week they had their first every public demo at an SDForum online classifieds event in the Google offices. So what is Edgeio? To quote from their first blog post:-
Edgeio is all about edge publishing. It is our belief that services that try to restrict how users create and consume information cannot ultimately be successful. Users own their data, and services exist not to silo that data, but rather to add value to it. That is what Edgeio is setting out to do.
We will be focusing on classified listings of any type to start.
While a bit abstract the terms “classified listing” has had my attention.
links for 2006-02-13
Blog Hunting Interview with Jim Durbin and Jason Davis in Oracle’s Profit Magazine (tags: recruitment blog oracle) Australian IT – News eyes new media (, FEBRUARY 09, 2006) A run down of News Corps current plays in new media and the resulting bottom line impact. (tags: NewMedia NewsCorp) Kim Cameron’s Identity Weblog » EMPLOYEES INJECTEDContinue reading “links for 2006-02-13”
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