May Day, IT and Project Management

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Today is May Day; briefly attended the anarchist gathering at the Eight Hour Day monument, spending most of my time with a Israeli Jew who spent several months living in Ramallah. Later this afternoon Australia-Asia Workers Links is holding a follow-up rally.There is actually two May Day gatherings in Melbourne; one largely organised by the Melbourne Anarchist Club and friends (which was formed on May 1st, 1886) and the other by the old trade union officialdom, who evidentally can't produce a website to save themselves and don't like anarchists. My own on-topic contribution is Political Anarchism in the 21st Century which essentially argues that whilst social anarchism is preferable to individual and lifestyle anarchism, political involvement would be even better still.

Following a very different sort of revolution, tonight I'm speaking at Linux Users of Victoria on Linux and Multicore (presentation slides and notes available). Also have just started to initiate the compilation of conference proceedings from last month's Multicore World conference in NZ. On a tangential matter (it's sort of related to anarchism, IT and Project Management), I'm absolutely astounded to discover the NSW police seem to have engaged in software piracy of their criminal intelligence database, whereas their Victorian colleagues continue to throw scores of millions at their equivalent, LEAP. Having worked on electoral roll and civil registry databases with hundreds of thousands of records, I can safely suggest A database multiple layers of security with a pretty front end that keeps records on millions of people really isn't that difficult or expensive. In other project management news, recently received my grade for Advanced Project Management; 82.5%.

Among personal projects, very pleased to catch up with _fustian and wildilocks on Friday evening and usekh earlier in the day. The former also alerted me to a couple of worthwhile IT projects he's engaged in, including the reconstitution of a 1980s programming language for games into PHP.

Comments

[a-carnal-mink.livejournal.com]

Happy May Day, comrade!

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

And to you too, comrade.

[fluffyblanket.livejournal.com]

Ditto !

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

My next post will discuss some Esperanto lessons I've been taking... :)

[fluffyblanket.livejournal.com]

Yay(whatever that may mean) good for you , comrade !

[zenicurean.livejournal.com]

Have a nice May Day!

(Ah, al-Qaeda, that notorious shield of individualism!)

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Ah, al-Qaeda, that notorious shield of individualism!

Who would have thought it? After all, far easier for the MDC to claim that activities were "individual" and "anarchistic", rather than shed a closer look at their own organisations and language for similarity with Al-Qaeda....

Left-wing fascism is a senile disorder.

[mrteufel.livejournal.com]

Happy May Day! And that article you linked to about the NSW Police... Well, if the Victorian cops can forget how to swear an affidavit, I guess no level of incompetence is beyond the law.

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

One of the better comments that came out of that is that the NSW police should lose their Internet access for having engaged in such widespread reported piracy! :)