Michael Specht

An imperfect blog from Australia looking at technology, enterprise 2.0, management, Human Resources (HR) and other random thoughts.

Entries from July 2005

Next week

July 23rd, 2005 · No Comments · Personal · 1,087 views

Well for the next 8 days we (the family) will be spending every waking moment on planks hurtling down a mountain covered with snow while at night tucked away in our Snowy Mountains retreat at Charlotte Pass.
Guess what, not blogging at all. In fact most modern day technology is not easily available. Mobile [...]

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links for 2005-07-22

July 22nd, 2005 · No Comments · General · 1,034 views

PHP Contest on SDN
A contest is being run by SDN about writing a PHP program around SU01, cool if you are a PHP SAP geek.
(tags: SAP PHP)

Technical Careers @ Microsoft : Did you say 20%?
Jenna the new girl at JobBlog posts about Google’s 20% and Microsoft’s repsonse
(tags: google Microsoft recruitment)

Twenty Dumb Things Organizations Do to [...]

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Recruiting in Australia (Part 1)

July 17th, 2005 · 8 Comments · Branding, Communication, Recruitment · 2,395 views

Over the last few weeks I have become very concerned about the state of the recruitment industry in Australia, in particular around IT although the comments will also hold true of other industries. I am preparing a few posts to work through the issues, mostly for my purposes but others might also benefit. [...]

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New RSS Reader

July 15th, 2005 · 4 Comments · Blogging · 1,582 views

Today I moved my RSS reader from Newsgator Online to Pluck a free web based reader for IE and now Firefox. I had been looking to go back to BlogMatrix Jager but I just could not get it to work through the proxies. I must say the interface for Pluck is fantastic it [...]

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Commenting in RSS

July 15th, 2005 · 2 Comments · Blogging · 1,585 views

(From Enterprise RSS via Barnaby via Scoble)
Russell Beatie is thinking about comments in RSS an idea that I have been kicking around since BlogTalk Downunder and the whole no comments thing, although when don’t post your ideas you really can’t say I had the same idea.
I was thinking of the aggregator showing both the [...]

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Less posting here

July 15th, 2005 · 1 Comment · Blogging, Personal · 7,442 views

What is going on? Now that the takeover at work is in full swing I have moved into a new role which is taking a lot more of my time. Coupled with this I have set up an internal blog and will be spending time there. I will continue to post here [...]

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Coldplay XY a copy controlled CD

July 13th, 2005 · 9 Comments · Personal, Technology · 3,239 views

Last week end I purchased Coldplay’s new album XY and I have just gone to import into iTunes and move onto my iPod when I noticed a small note on the front of the CD case.
“Copy Controlled CD”
Not the easiest warning to see, it is in a small dark green font on a [...]

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Weird chess rules

July 12th, 2005 · No Comments · Personal · 1,569 views

During the school holidays a couple of weeks ago my Dad visited us from Sydney during the trip he engage in several games of chess with our son. The travel chess set we have is Chinese made and the rules have been translated into very strange English. They baffled him to the point [...]

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Frank asks where are all the Biztalker’s?

July 8th, 2005 · 5 Comments · Recruitment · 1,975 views

Here is comes a rant.
Frank Arrigo is asking for all Biztalker’s please contact him about jobs at Microsoft Australia, he is joined by a few others. Pity there is nothing on the Microsoft Australia recruitment blog about this fact. The comments below are not directed personally to the blog but more to [...]

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Eyewitness account of blasts

July 8th, 2005 · 1 Comment · General · 1,640 views

Here is a detailed account from Justin who was travelling in the London Tube system when the attack occurred. His train just passed Edgware Road Station when the blast occurred, he provides a logical but frightening account of what transpired next.
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