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 13th, 2008 in general
Very exciting announcement … well, I’m excited about it!
Sitepoint will be sponsoring me to attend the Web Directions Government conference in Canberra next week (19-20 May). I’ll be covering the event for Sitepoint, including writing a blog post with a wrap-up of the 2-day conference including (possibly) interviews with some of the thirteen speakers … […]
Tags: canberra, conference, edgeoftheweb, government, perth, sitepoint, sydney, web, webdirections, webdirectionsgovernment
Posted by Nathanael (admin) on April 30th, 2008 in general
Met with Justin Kerr-Stevens last week and this morning for coffee, along with the usual suspects @trib and @facibus - and now I’m just trying to get my head around all this stuff Justin (currently working for the Department for Innovation, University and Skills ) has been telling us about … some of the cool […]
Tags: australiangovernment, canberra, collaboration, edemocracy, freeaustraliawireless, innovation, jkerrstevens, opengovernment, politics, UK
Posted by Nathanael (admin) on April 6th, 2008 in general
I mentioned this over on the Free Canberra Wireless blog a few weeks ago - but I should also mention it here that we are holding our first BarCamp event here in Canberra in three weeks on Saturday 19 April.
It’s very exciting that we’ve finally got a venue and now we’ve picked up several sponsors. […]
Tags: anu, barcamp, barcampcanberra, canberra, conference, logo, map, weewar
Posted by Nathanael (admin) on March 27th, 2008 in general
I know Steve would be particularly disappointed about this, given Rentoid’s position on Hummers: “Hummers aren’t welcome here. Buy yourself a hybrid and rent it out instead.“:
The H3 consumes about 15 litres per 100 km … compared to my Mini Cooper S which does 8 L/100km.
Glug glug.
Not to mention that putting big cars on […]
Tags: canberra, competition, environment, hummer, resources