Writing

Twenty years of posts on geopolitics, philosophy, media, investing and whatever else has my attention.

Cam’s World 10 July, 2007 Jul 2007

Damn I’m tired today. Went downstairs for a quick nap at 9.30am and woke up two hours later. ****** Productivity tip of the day – delete the “Latest…

Cam’s World 9 July, 2007 Jul 2007

Does anyone out there know how to print a filtered outline in MindManager? I’m using Mindjet’s MindManager Pro 6 and when I filter my map to isolate certain…

Melbourne Twitter Meetup this Thursday Jul 2007

The 2nd Melbourne Twitter Meetup is happening at Horse Bazaar on Thursday 12th July. If you’re on Twitter, or you want to find out what all the fuss…

Thunderbird + Gmail = The Ultimate Mail Platform Jul 2007

About a week ago I installed Thunderbird again and I think I’ve cooked up the ultimate combination of tools for handling email. I was previously (for three years)…

G’Day World #262 – Frank Arrigo, Microsoft Developer Platform Evangelist Jul 2007

Frank Arrigo, the guy who runs Microsoft’s Developer Platform Evangelism team in Australia, a 16 year veteran of Microsoft, joins me tonight to publicly break his big news…

How to force Vista to open links in Firefox! Jul 2007

Thank Science! I finally found out how to stop Vista opening links in IE instead of Firefox! This has been bugging the hell out of me since I…

G’Day World #261 – Wendell Wallach on AI Ethics Jul 2007

Wendell Wallach is a lecturer and consultant at Yale University’s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics where he chairs the working research group on Technology and Ethics, leads a seminar…

One last plug for MODM #3 tonight! Jul 2007

We’ve got about 35 people registered and a few of them have told me they are bringing friends, so it should be a fun night. So we know…

A DIY Planner Jul 2007

I came across this terrific site this morning from a link off of Ryan Rasmussen’s blog. Ryan works for Levenger, a company that sells beautiful writing and paper…

G’Day World #260 – J. Storrs Hall on AI and Nanotech Jul 2007

J. Storrs Hall is an independent scientist and author. His most recent book is Beyond AI: Creating the Conscience of the Machine, and he was the founding Chief…