P12-120: Roma–Breakfast of Conviviality

April 29, 2012

Project 2012: Day 120 I love catching up with friends before work. People of a like mind. Some friends I’ve known for years, others I meet for the first time. Some from work, some from church, others from previous interactions, some whom I know through biking, or my daughters’ friend’s parents. It’s why I organise [...]

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P12-119: Keys to Happiness – Key 5 – Accomplishment

April 28, 2012

Project 2012: Day 119 Key #5, then end in our Key’s to Happiness series. This week were going to talk about accomplishment. Think of your last major achievement. Something that took time, effort, sacrifice, and discipline to accomplish. I’d wager you experienced joy, achievement, perhaps even a sense of euphoria. Think of getting to the [...]

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Cloud in the Enterprise – Economics 6 – Intangible Costs

April 27, 2012

Project 2012: Day 118 I think it was Einstein that said: “Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted, counts.” or something to that effect. The point is this, when we look at the business case for adopting cloud computing principles to deliver IT to the enterprise, there are [...]

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P12-117: You Don’t Need a Business Plan

April 26, 2012

Project 2012: Day 117 Legend has it that Harvard Business Professors have surveyed start-ups and small businesses over the last decade to determine what the very few that survived beyond five years had in common. One thing. Not the CEO, Vision, Mission, Culture, Management Style, Funding, Market, or Economic Environment. The one thing that successful [...]

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P12-116: Book Review: The Raven King Trilogy

April 25, 2012

Project 2012: Day 116 Stephen R. Lawhead is one of my favourite authors. I first read him as a teenager when I was blown away by his Space Opera “Empyrion” That is still one of my all time favourite stories. So when one of my favourite authors tackles one of my favourite characters, the “terrorist” [...]

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P12-115: Ride Report: Bell’s Line of Road to Lithgow

April 24, 2012

Project 2012: Day 115 I picked up the new Ducati on Tuesday 20 March, and took her out for the first long ride on Saturday 24th. There’s nothing that can substitute for experience, and Lucia is a different enough ride, with far more complexity, not to mention power, than the GS. So I’m determined to [...]

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P12-114: What Get’s You Out of Bed in the Morning

April 23, 2012

Project 2012: Day 114 So what is it?   True story: I was looking for work on charter yachts in Antigua in my mid-twenties (I know, right!). Although this wasn’t quite as idyllic as it seems. Being unemployed, and worried about rent or where you next meal is coming from is the same most places [...]

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P12-113: Breakfast for Men

April 22, 2012

Project 2012: Day 113 Sometimes you have a man’s hunger. It’s true. Cereal just won’t cut it. And don’t give me that noncy “egg white omelette on dry soy lin toast” crap. Seriously, where do people come up with this stuff. It seems a tradition in Australia, at most breakfast joints (cafes, truck stops and [...]

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P12-112: Keys to Happiness – Key 4 – Meaning

April 21, 2012

Project 2012: Day 112 We’ve got a bunch of friends that are missionaries, many of them posted overseas. Some examples: Gerald and Kathy Donker, with their 3 kids, based in Malut, Sudan Tim and Elizabeth Freyer, with their kids in Morocco Paul Williams (from my school class of 84) in Irkutsk, Siberia I’ve often considered [...]

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Cloud in the Enterprise – Economics 5 – Getting Off The Cloud

April 20, 2012

Project 2012: Day 111 We’ve already spoken about “Vendor Contestability” and this is certainly the nirvana we’d like to get to in the future for computing delivery. The idea that we can seamlessly shift between providers at close to zero expense. Kind’ve like you do with a mobile phone. Although there may be contract penalties [...]

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