The Age reports this morning on the wonderful efforts of Breast Cancer Network of Australia CEO, Lyn Swinburne. Swinburne, herself a breast cancer survivor, has organised for 10,500 women wearing pink ponchos to gather on the hallowed turf of the Melbourne Cricket…
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Another (please keep me awake) iPod killer?
We note that Bleeding Edge reports on another so called (excuse me if I go to sleep here) iPod killer. Why is every new MP3 capable release labelled the latest iPod killer? I think Bleeding Edge has caught the disease. chriscurnow.com thinks perchance this represents…
Enron – you learn more from failures than successes
From Applied Abstractions: The Economist has a review of Kurt Eichenwald’s new book on Enron: Conspiracy of Fools : A True Story, finding that top management in Enron were duped by some of their direct reports. It reads like a thriller. I’m just heading…
Organisations Behaving Badly
This book by Leon Gettler invites comparison with The Corporation. Both conclude that the modern corporations can be compared to individuals and are largely pathological in nature. Both represent a fairly scathing critique of most modern corporations. However…
Harpsicord amongst the cannons
For as long as I can remember, one of the deepest connections I have been able to make with my soul is through music – particularly in making my own music on my piano. I have never learnt to play a whole Sonata, but I have it in mind to one day learn…
Latest addition to the family
Here is Oliver, the latest addition to the Curnow family. We have had pets before. But never a dog! We’ve had goldfish, guinnea pigs and rabbits (x4 who all died) but never a dog. Miriam is the youngest Curnow and really wanted rabbits nearly ten years ago….
Update on Spam blocking
A few days ago I posted regarding how good I found MT-Blacklist, a spam blocking plugin for the Moveable Type publishing system. Well thanks to a Bleeding Edge Entry I found out about SpamLookup. Developed by Brad Choate, SpamLookup is actually a combination of…
The Breast Blog
Regular readers of chriscurnow.com will know that one of our goals is to support greater mutual understanding between men and women (and peoples of all kinds, races and backgrounds for that matter.) I have recently come across The Breast Blog – an enterprise of…
Go away spammers
A by-product of the upgrade to the new server was opening chriscurnow.com up to trackback spammers. Oh dear, I was getting 20 – 30 a day. Moveable Type v3 certainly makes it easier to delete trackback spam but it doesn’t stop it from getting through. When…