by cameron | Mar 20, 2007 | Podcast
My guest today is Elizabeth Godo, a media studies student from Toronto, who has written
an excellent analysis of the US media’s treatment of
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
Elizabeth recently went through all of the New York Times’ coverage of Chavez over several years and picked out the recurring labels used to describe him: “ex-coup leader”, “leftist”, which, as she says, “repeatedly establishes the context within which the American audience is lead to evaluate President Chavez.”
Other Links:
Video of Jon Stewart on “CROSSFIRE”
by cameron | Mar 20, 2007 | Melbourne, Podcast, Uncategorized
Big shout outs tonight to my old buddy Shane Williamson for chucking some cash into the Shave thing. Thanks mate. Oh and thanks Jesus. Shane recently sold a copy of the infamous Microsoft Bob on ebay for the princely sum of $15.50. I’ve often thought about when the time will be right for me to auction off some of my Microsoft memorabilia so as to maximize the return on my investment. When they are finally acquired by Google perhaps?
Another big shout out to my homies from Tassie – Bruce “The” Moyle and Q-Dog – from the Cool Shite crew. They were in Melbourne today for some event and we caught up for a quick bite afterwards. Always good to geek out with Bruce about movies and TV and as this was the first time I’ve met Q-Dog in person I was surprised to learn he isn’t gay after all. They have a real score on their show this week – an interview with Edgar Wright director of HOT FUZZ, the new Simon Pegg – Nick Frost comedy (the guys behind SHAUN OF THE DEAD). When I asked how they managed to get Edgar on the show they cockily informed me that HE contacted THEM. Bastards. Complete bastards.
by cameron | Mar 19, 2007 | Podcast
Tonight in the Bitchcast, I’m joined by Jodie Miners and Tony Goodson. We bitched about a bunch of things, including (but not limited to):
Why HP don’t have Windows Vista drivers for the HP Photosmart 7150
How hard it is to move your iTunes library from your old PC to your new PC
Why Office 2007 is so goddamn slow, why they took out Clippy, and how much productivity LOSS the you-beaut ribbon is causing
Vista is nice and pretty and seems to work okay, but where did Microsoft’s 5 years of R&D go?
And why doesn’t Google Desktop seem to work properly in Vista?
“The Departed” is a good enough film but should Martin Scorsese really get a “Best Director” statue for making a carbon-copy film? (and then screwing up the last scene??)
Why wasn’t TalkShoe showing this podcast as being “live” while we were recording it? Why were people who came 15 – 30 minutes late not able to see the show or dial into it? What’s up with that?
Finally, we each suggest some great podcasts to listen to and blogs to read.
By the way, I apologise for my mic being up too loud at the beginning and blame it on the new PC. My set-up isn’t exactly right. Also – when I went to edit this show I discovered that 1Mb RAM isn’t enough! Not even with the Dual Core. The whole machine froze to halt.
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by cameron | Mar 18, 2007 | Podcast, TPN
My co-host, the right honourable J. David Markham, did an interview recently with a journalist from USA TODAY and as a result our little show got a small mention in a bigger article about podcasting. Of course, they named the show incorrectly and didn’t link to it in the online article, but it’s still nice of them.
Here’s an online copy of the article.
by cameron | Mar 17, 2007 | Podcast, science vs religion
Robert M. Price is professor of theology and scriptural studies at Coleman Theological Seminary and professor of Biblical Criticism at the Center for Inquiry Institute. He was also featured in THE GOD WHO WASN’T THERE. DJ Grothe had Robert on the Point of Inquiry podcast last week and he totally demolishes the historical argument for the Jesus hypothesis. You have to listen to this interview. It’s terrific. I wish I’d heard this before I had John Dickson on the show. Price is incredibly articulate on the subject. I’d love to have him on my show but there is no way I could do a better job than DJ did with this. I’d love to see how Christians respond to these arguments. Perhaps I should try to get Dickson and Price on the show together for a discussion?
By the way, DJ and his producer Thomas Donnelly are coming on G’DAY WORLD this week for a chat. I’m looking forward to that.
by cameron | Mar 17, 2007 | environment, Melbourne, Podcast, Uncategorized
The last good boss I had at Microsoft, Christophe DuMonet, left there just before I did (causing me all sorts of political problems but, in retrospect, I’m glad he did) and spent a few years as General Manager of a software division of Sydney-based software company Unique Software. He’s now taken a new position as Managing Director of the Australian office of French software company Esker, “the world’s leading document process automation solutions provider”. Hopefully this means he now has the budget to do engage a good podcast consultant. 🙂
I’m trying to think of what I learned from my time working for CD. He’s certainly a snappy dresser. And he’s this mad triathlete. Neither of those rubbed off on me. He tried to convince me I should play the political game at Microsoft, but I never really could get my ego out of the way. I’d rather say what I think and get condemned for it than pander to morons. It’s a low self-esteem issue I guess. People with healthier self-esteems are prepared to play the game to get what they want. I struggle.
We certainly had some good times though. I remember when we discovered we had some leftover marketing budget which needed to be spent before the end of the financial year and I came up with the idea of getting our top CIO clients and taking them out to the Flower Drum, one of the world’s best Chinese restaurants, for a monthly confab. That was a big hit. I figured we’d get more value out of letting our top customers eat and drink well and chat to each other about the Microsoft-related projects they were doing than trying to SELL them. They sold each other. Halfway into the third bottle of merlot, they would be inviting each other over to their offices to check out the cool stuff they were building using our tools.
Then there was the time we took one of our best customers, let’s call him Tony, and we hired a stretch limo and spent the day driving around Melbourne’s wine district, visiting wineries, eating, drinking, and sharing war stories. Great bonding stuff. How else do you get 8 hours with a CIO? Tony ended up one of our most loyal and valuable clients and a good friend.
But they were all my ideas. What did Christophe do? He backed me up. He gave me support to get the job done. Isn’t that the most important role of a good manager? Creating an environment where their people can do what they need to do without the rest of the company getting in their way?
His final act as my manager was to fight to get approval for me to spend a couple of weeks in New York at Cornell University’s supercomputing lab. At the time I had this vision for Microsoft in Australia to work with Universities to build out massively-parallel supercomputers using Windows Server 64-bit running on blades. We had training budget to spend and I said I wanted to go to Cornell to find out how they were doing it. Our boss didn’t want it to happen (mainly because he hated my guts) but CD made it happen. And although I left Microsoft not long afterwards and never had the chance to realize the vision, the trip to Cornell was a great experience and I’m sure I will use what I learned there at some stage in the future. And it wouldn’t have happened without Christophe’s support.
So for that Christophe – thanks mate. And congrats on the new job.
