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Talk for Tertiary IT Managers conference: Beyond Virtualisation-
I gave a talk today at the 26th Annual Tertiary IT Managers conference. “Beyond Virtualisation: what’s next for IT sustainability”. I explored computing and sustainability imperative, particularly in the tertiary sector. We looked at what other disciplines are doing and explored what it might mean to be a sustainable practitioner in computing. We […]
SimPa does the festival
September 18, 2008
We’ve been SimPa-ing at the Otago Maori and Pacific Island festival today. What an amazing event, hundreds, perhaps thousands of kids performing and enjoying a wonderful celebration of diverse cultures. Kids from several of the runaka groups Tori and Amber have been working with were performing. These are from the combined Peninsula schools. […]
Steam’s up for the Prime Minister
September 16, 2008
Well that was an interesting afternoon. We’ve been to the opening of the Emperor’s Dragons at the Otago Museum. Then, after nearly 90 minutes of speeches (being translated three ways), Phil and I dashed to the Dunedin Gas Works Museum for for another function. The reason for the busyness was the Prime Minister. […]
Dealing with the devil? Sponsorship ethics for LivingCampus
September 16, 2008
Our colleague Brian has a jacket for a favourite race-car team. It has fascinated me since he got it. What sort of negotiation went on that sees a smoking company and a quit-smoking company jostling for position on the same arm? Brian’s jacket has been on my mind the last couple of days following […]
Footprints and longfins
September 9, 2008
Last night we went to a talk by Metiria Turei about the dramatic collapse in New Zealand’s endemic eel population, the longfin in particular. Metiria showed an outstanding film by students from the Science and Natural History filmmaking programme of the the Centre for Science Communication. Lindsay Davidson and Melissa Salpietra’s Longfin (mp4 24mins) is a […]
September 19, 2008
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