This month marked SkySQL's first anniversary.  It also marks my 6 months with the company, after being with MySQL AB (and then Sun and finally Oracle) for over 5 years. As good a time as any for a look back and some musings of the future. In late 2005… more »

I was listening to the ABC (not the US commercial one, the Australian public broadcaster) and they were discussing the fact that the National Broadband Network (NBN in government-speak) was not likely to live up to expectations for those outside of majo… more »

I have been following the WikiLeaks story with growing concern, but when News.com.au came out with their story entitled Inside Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange's Lair I became hot under the collar. What? The heading doesn't say that? Oh yes, that is r… more »

Title: MADIGAN MINE Publisher: Picador Author: Kirstyn McDermott Edition released: 2010 ISBN: 9780330425711 303 pages Reviewed by: Adam Donnison Madigan, the childhood friend that went away, grew up and returned - to throw chaos into the life o… more »

There were two sessions that were pretty closely related as they turned out, The first was "Did the Future Just Arrive: The E-book and the Publishing Industry", followed by "The Writer and the Audience: Online Interaction and Public Personae". First e… more »