Word-whore. I write 'em. I talk 'em. Information, politics, media, and the cybers. I drink. I use bad words. All publication is a political act. All communication is propaganda. All art is pornography. All business is personal. All hail Eris! Vive les poissons rouges sauvages!
I’ve been talking about writing a novel for ages — not here, but certain friends are probably sick of hearing about it. So I was looking for ways of streamlining the writing process when I found Writing a Novel Using The Snowflake Method.
The website’s pretty cheesy, and I’ve got no idea whether the method works or not. But you’ve gotta love Randy’s moustache. It’s like the 70s never ended…
Now all I have to do is figure out what the novel is about and, you know… write it.
I’m changing banks. It turns out St George Bank’s Business Banking Online service only works with Internet Explorer on Windows, which isn’t much use for a Mac-based business. So I’m moving to Westpac — chosen on the basis that since all banks are bastards, I might as well pick the one which is supposedly responsible and sustainable.
But even Westpac seems strangely last-century…
My biggest gripe about Nokia’s Nseries “multimedia telephones” was that the management software was only available for Windows — despite such a massive proportion of “multimedia people” using Macs. This has now been fixed with the new Nokia Media Transfer application for Mac. Will play tonight.
This morning’s Sydney Morning Herald has a story about how the Sydney Opera House website was hacked. It’s a nice explanation for the masses about how these things work.
But I think the SOH’s Claire Swaffield is disingenuous when she says that no customer data was disclosed.
Sure, the SOH customer database wasn’t affected. But if trojans were installed on visitors’ computers, then their data could well have been compromised — and the SOH doesn’t know how long that was happening.
Ms Swaffield’s comment is good for the SOH’s PR spin, maybe, but it isn’t the reality. A far more useful and, dare I say it, responsible statement would have been to say that while the SOH data wasn’t compromised, users should check their computers for infection — particularly if they’re not 100% sure their maintenance is up to date.
Friday night I caught the new show by Mark Swivel as his character Jeremy Boutsakis (pictured left), called A Conference for Sole Traders. Great fun.
Mark obviously spent far too long as a corporate lawyer — in the financial services sector, no less! — so Jeremy knows how to lead us through a meaningless PowerPoint presentation. Jeremy is more the slightly daggy Australian motivational speaker rather than the slick American evangelist style, and it works well in the intimate environs of the The Old Fitzroy Theatre in Woolloomooloo.
It’s running until 29 June, so see this show before it heads to Edinburgh.
Pack 100+ geeks into a room, fuel them with alcohol and give some of them 3 minutes (and not a second more!) to explain their latest cool project. That’s Webjam.
Webjam 3 happened last Thursday night 7 June. Here’s highlights from my scattered notes. If you’re one of the presenters, please feel free to tell me more!