Posted by Nathanael (admin) on May 17th, 2008 in general
A friend of mines Toshiba M200 tablet PC was taken from their vehicle after the rear window was smashed last night (Friday 16 May) in Braddon, Canberra.
If you see a tablet laptop (it’s a laptop with a screen you can swivel around and use as a touch screen instead of with the keyboard) around Canberra […]
Tags: braddon, burglary, canberra, car, civic, crime, laptop, notebook, police, stolen, thief, vehicle
Posted by Nathanael (admin) on May 15th, 2008 in general
After a comment I made in a tweet the other evening regarding IT departments it reminded me of something I’d been wanting to blog about for a while. Although a lot of what I do is technical in nature and many people assume is IT … I’ve never actually worked in the IT department of […]
Tags: IT, network, security, servers, work
Posted by Nathanael (admin) on May 15th, 2008 in general
Some thoughts on the National Broadband Network included in the recently released Federal Budget.
Tags: freeaustraliawireless, freecanberrawireless, government budget, infrastructure, nationalbroadbandnetwork, network, scalability, wireless
Posted by Nathanael (admin) on May 15th, 2008 in general
The UK Identity & Passport Service (IPS) has released a post-implementation report with lessons learned from five key projects undertaken in 2007. According to Michael Krigsman the recommendations from this report contain many common failure points for project and program management:
Benefits Realisation
Business Involvement
Communication
Contract Management
Culture
Governance
Implementation Roles and Responsibilities
Issues management
Management of External Communications
Off-system Customer Experience Testing (CET)
Phased […]
Tags: cnet, failure, government, IT, mkrigsman, projectmanagement, report, UK, zdnet
Posted by Nathanael (admin) on May 13th, 2008 in general
Today I met with David Mathews (website, campaign blog and LinkedIn profile), ACT Labor party candidate for Molonglo, primarily to discuss Free Australia Wireless.
We covered a lot of topics during the 40 minute chat … although a) I talk fast; and b) I didn’t go into too much depth on some of the topics as […]
Tags: actgovernment, barcamp, barcampgov, davidmathews, firewall, freeaustraliawireless, government2.0, happener, labor, openaustralia, productivity, recruitment, socialcomputing, socialnetworking