Monthly archives: December, 2008

A Medium Communicates with the Spirit of Blogging

The discussion earlier this year about the death of the blogosphere is surely exaggerated.  OK, my blog was “resting” for most of this year. My excuse is general busy-ness – moving house, moving office, and changing roles at NICTA. But recently I had the enthusiasm and time to write a flurry of blog entries. (I’ve …

ICSOC Day 3 Keynote – Infrastructure as a Service

I had to miss the second day of ICSOC, but was back for the morning of the third, and another great keynote, on Web-Scale Computing, from Peter Vosshall – a VP and Distinguished Engineer at Amazon. Amazon needs a highly reliable and scalable infrastructure internally to run its retail business, but has also been selling …

ICSOC Day 1 Keynote – Services for Science

The 6th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing is on in Sydney this week. NICTA is a sponsor, and I managed to score a registration to attend.  Ian Foster opened with an interesting keynote. (Preceded by a 30 minute delay fussing with Mac technology issues!)  He spoke on “Services for Science” – how SOA is …

COAG Invests in a National Electronic Conveyancing System

COAG met on Saturday and decided to invest to implement a national approach to conveyancing – the National Electronic Conveyancing System (NECS).  Currently each of Australia’s eight states and territories has its own different system for dealing with the transfer of real estate.  You might not think that’s a big deal – after all, wherever …