Last week I was in Japan for the Nanotech conference. It was very interesting…. I made some new friends and I think that there will be a couple of very interesting business opportunities that come out of it. But that is incidental to what is important in Japan. What is important is trust, friendship, respect, [...]
Podcasts – or more importantly time shifted audio content – are, I believe, one of the great information accelerators of our age. I subscribe to a number of feeds mainly from NPR in the US, the BBC in the UK and the ABC in Australia. I listen to them in the car on my commute [...]
Most people who know me, or who have read this blog for a long time, would know that I love to cook. In fact I would have to say that it is a passion. So much so that I have started writing a recipe book… It's not for mainstream publication. It is actually for friends [...]
Back in 2002 an opinion piece was published in the Christian Science Monitor debunking the concept of Al Qaida as the “top brand” in terrorism, and how, in doing creating this myth, western security forces were creating a rod for their own backs. The article went on to talk about the phenomenon of “exaggerated enemies” [...]
I a recent address Ken Henry, the chairman of the Future Tax System Review Panel and Secretary to the Treasury, outlined the rationale for continuing tax reform. The key opportunities and challenges facing politicians and policy makers, he said, are the following: the ageing of the population, posing challenges for the financing of retirement incomes [...]
Its amazing how primitive we all are when it gets down to it. Last night we finally had some rain after weeks and weeks of unnaturally early springtime weather. The garden was getting dry and the water tanks weren't low, but they weren't brim full in the way that you would expect at this time [...]
I grew up with a fascination for the Pop Charts. I loved to see whether the records that I liked would go to #1. I used to watch Top Of The Pops on TV in London during the early days of TV when the pictures were still in Black and White when Pirate radio was [...]
Tomorrow will be a great day for the future of Australia’s communication infrastructure. The technical engineering folk and tele-communication company suits will convene to discuss the industries perspective on Fibre to the home Broadband at the Observatory Hotel Sydney with the culmination being a conference participant jointly prepared statement of Industry sentiment and conference [...]
I think it is fair to question how capitalism can continue to be a valid model unless it is sustainable. Sustainability is a requisite ingredient in any ecosystem that is going to survive, after all. Even viruses understand that – an efficient virus is not one that wipes out its host. An efficient virus uses [...]
Why is it that we love to speculate about what is going to happen to someone else’s industry, business, economy, (you name it) – but we are less enthusiastic about accepting the inevitability of change to that which we are directly involved in? Is it because we are all infallible? Is it because we think we [...]