Catch up on articles, Media Training, Unitarian AGM, RuneQuest!
Returning from Perth meant that a few writing projects had been delayed. This weekend, with some herculean effort, I managed to complete all of my outstanding tasks. Firstly, an elaborated version of the paper that I presented at the 2005 System Administrators Conference on IT Infrastructure in Community Organisations. It's more of a work in progress, as this version concentrates on defining community organisations and on the infrastructure in Neighbourhood Houses in Victoria. Weird news in Red Friday is that the proposed .XXX GLT has been delayed (yet again) and that the US government is about to deploy a new set of orbital lasers. The tutorial section of Red Friday includes summary notes from the first five weeks CCNA Semester 1.
Secondly, again derived from a bunch of notes, my presentation to the 114th Anniversary Dinner for Prosper Australia. The organisation has also decided to employ me for the next two months to build their media and marketing focus, which of course has required developing a fairly lengthy lesson plan which will be useful in future courses of such a nature.
Last Sunday was the Annual General Meeting (I'm on the committee again, quelle surprise) and service for the Melbourne Unitarian Church which was given by Jenny Mikakos, MLC for Jika Jika. As an old friend and factional ally, it was good to see Jenny again after a number of years. Her presentation was on the Victorian government's human rights charter, which pretty much reiterated the comments made in the government's initial discussion paper (they're copying the ACT model). The Church's submission made some harsh comments about "human rights" that don't have a constitutional guarantee. Despite Jenny's assurances that the Victorian Labor government was seeking to establish a "fair balance" between human rights and security, the Federal Labor Party seems to have a different point of view; Boost search powers: ALP.
After the AGM we all settled down to our ongoing RuneQuest game in Prax. Much of the afternoon consisted of battling Broos. a nice staple bad guy. I've started a write up of the game, which if I do say so, is reasonably coherent. In other RQ related news, Mongoose has declared that the playtest for RQ IV will be closing down soon, following a change of chief editor from Matthew Sprange to Greg Lynch. There seems to be some confusion on the list and Greg hasn't been responding. Is RQ IV stillborn? Or is Mongoose going to release something without taking into account the playtester's notes and comments? Noone seems to know. So the ill-fated saga of RuneQuest continues.
Secondly, again derived from a bunch of notes, my presentation to the 114th Anniversary Dinner for Prosper Australia. The organisation has also decided to employ me for the next two months to build their media and marketing focus, which of course has required developing a fairly lengthy lesson plan which will be useful in future courses of such a nature.
Last Sunday was the Annual General Meeting (I'm on the committee again, quelle surprise) and service for the Melbourne Unitarian Church which was given by Jenny Mikakos, MLC for Jika Jika. As an old friend and factional ally, it was good to see Jenny again after a number of years. Her presentation was on the Victorian government's human rights charter, which pretty much reiterated the comments made in the government's initial discussion paper (they're copying the ACT model). The Church's submission made some harsh comments about "human rights" that don't have a constitutional guarantee. Despite Jenny's assurances that the Victorian Labor government was seeking to establish a "fair balance" between human rights and security, the Federal Labor Party seems to have a different point of view; Boost search powers: ALP.
After the AGM we all settled down to our ongoing RuneQuest game in Prax. Much of the afternoon consisted of battling Broos. a nice staple bad guy. I've started a write up of the game, which if I do say so, is reasonably coherent. In other RQ related news, Mongoose has declared that the playtest for RQ IV will be closing down soon, following a change of chief editor from Matthew Sprange to Greg Lynch. There seems to be some confusion on the list and Greg hasn't been responding. Is RQ IV stillborn? Or is Mongoose going to release something without taking into account the playtester's notes and comments? Noone seems to know. So the ill-fated saga of RuneQuest continues.