During our stop at Boston for Libre Planet Erle and myself decided to do the full geek tour and headed off to the MIT Museum. We were lucky enough to catch the last week of the big data exhibition. I was very happy as this exhibition was awesome and had some great pieces addressing the really important issue of the surveillance state of social media. It was one of the highlight of our visits…
“ Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist. ” — Oscar Wilde There has been alot of discussions in my house recently about Sensationalism vs Fact. The recent Australian Elections had set a new landscape for Australian media I feel. We went to the lowest points I have seen. Now I am a factual person and I love Data Science and crunching numbers… Nothing was being reported…
I have lived my life as many people looking up to people for inspiration and in moments of hard times reminding myself of their turmoil and also their successes. Someone who has always inspired was Nelson Mandela. There have been many times in my life be it in the workplace or in education where I have had to face opposition and sometimes violent opposition. In these moments I would remind myself of Nelson Mandela if…
I was happy to learn about the Living Computer Museum located in Seattle. We headed down for a Sunday to go and see the collection of Retro Computers. I felt like a kid in a candy store it was awesome. There is so many old machines in working order, the cool thing is that they allow you to actually use the machines. We created a punch card from one of the old IBM Punch Card…
Today is Mozilla’s 15th Anniversary of keeping the web open, it is an amazing story and one that was born from the browser war days. What started off as Netscape and a battle between them and Internet Explorer who did at one stage try to and won a domination battle of the web. Well from there after defeat by Microsoft, Netscape decided to open source its code… from there the Mozilla project was born. I don’t think I need to tell…
“Recently stumbled across a bunch of old Steve Jobs… Disregarding the obvious downsides to the man, I do enjoy these videos and see them as a part of IT History… It will be interesting to watch what happens to Apple and the Cult of Mac now he has passed? Rare footage of Steve Jobs in 1980 This is amazing this one here he basically paints the picture for the future of personal computing. In 1980…