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tcpipI haven't posted for several days. But what a week it has been. Saturday was the meeting for Linux Users of Victoria with Russell Coker leading a hands-on demonstration for building a mail-server. The technical content was good, but his sessions would be better if he was more of a teacher and took the time to elaborate each point to provide grounding among the learners. Afterwards it was the annual general meeting of the Isocracy Network with Damien Kingsbury speaking on plans to reform asylum seeker policies. It has led to me to reflect on the 15 years of reluctant involvement I have had with this issue.
On Sunday's 7th Sea Freiburg gaming session followed on from The Great Fire of Freiburg to the financial rebuilding of the equivalent of the establishment of the Bank of England. In other gaming news, on Tuesday reached the highest level attainable in Ingress. I can imagine that much of the time that I used to spend on Ingress will now be spent on Duolingo, where I am progressing quite well in German, French, and Esperanto (I find French the easiest, quelle surprise). Needless to say, we are still attending our weekly German lessons at the College of Advanced Education.
There has been some work-related issues of the past few days that have led to some serious reverberations throughout the company, which I am not at great liberty to elaborate on. It has however left a number of good people quite shell-shocked even if it is not immediately obvious, and has certainly led to demotivation on the part of others. I raise the question on whether the Board has acted - and I mean this in the full legal sense - "in the best interests of the corporation". This aside, next week I will be presenting at the Open Source Developers Conference in Tasmania, and then return to conduct courses for RMIT, then La Trobe University, then Deakin University.
On Sunday's 7th Sea Freiburg gaming session followed on from The Great Fire of Freiburg to the financial rebuilding of the equivalent of the establishment of the Bank of England. In other gaming news, on Tuesday reached the highest level attainable in Ingress. I can imagine that much of the time that I used to spend on Ingress will now be spent on Duolingo, where I am progressing quite well in German, French, and Esperanto (I find French the easiest, quelle surprise). Needless to say, we are still attending our weekly German lessons at the College of Advanced Education.
There has been some work-related issues of the past few days that have led to some serious reverberations throughout the company, which I am not at great liberty to elaborate on. It has however left a number of good people quite shell-shocked even if it is not immediately obvious, and has certainly led to demotivation on the part of others. I raise the question on whether the Board has acted - and I mean this in the full legal sense - "in the best interests of the corporation". This aside, next week I will be presenting at the Open Source Developers Conference in Tasmania, and then return to conduct courses for RMIT, then La Trobe University, then Deakin University.
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Date: 2015-10-22 12:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-10-22 10:04 pm (UTC)https://www.duolingo.com/courses
Alas for Russian there is only English and German so far, but with Spanish and Swedish coming soon.
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Date: 2015-10-25 10:57 am (UTC)Apart from being a language of world-importance, Russian would be very handy on livejournal these days!