Category: Blogging

Melbourne Storm – Mother Nature Style

BOM Radar - 20100306 @ 1t45 hours

Deviating from a pure tech focus for today, the heavy rain, hail and flooding in Melbourne has caught a lot of people unprepared. I do hope that there is a good drop in the catchment areas to top up the reservoirs. It’s been interesting to see what has popped up in the social media so …

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PowerPoint – The Root of all Evil

A few weeks ago, I was asked to come up with a strategy for departmental reporting and dashboards.I’ve let it simmer in my head for a while until it was thought through before knocking up a presentation. At my place of work, the default presentation tool is the cursed Microsoft PowerPoint. Why cursed, you might …

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Mobile Internet – A Great Communications Enabler

SCG Cricket @ 20100212 (Raining)

I am out to watch the cricket at the Sydney Cricket Ground today which got me thinking about how mobile access to the Internet has changed modern communication. I am writing this from my iPhone which I have also used to take a couple of photos to accompany this update. When I finished school just …

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Declination in Teenage Blog and Twitter Usage

Over the last few days, I’ve come across a number of articles reporting  that teens are now blogging and tweeting less than young adults. Now, being a person who does a little bit of statistical analysis for a crust I found it somewhat annoying that the majority of articles seemed to regurgitate numbers without so …

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