A Busy Weekend, More on IT Work and Land Tax

Was on-air last Saturday morning for 3CR's annual radiothon and helped raise a modest sum (c$1200) as part of the Unitarian Half Hour. Later than day was severina_242's birthday gathering of blini, vodka and borsch and many el-jay people. Following day gave my presentation on Prospects for Liberal and Rationalist Prospects in Islam which was well received. After that went to Retrocon and played The Keep on the Borderlands, a d20 Modern Harry Potter scenario as well as running a RuneQuest scenario. Dinner afterwards was great fun especially in the company of mareth_redorb. May even make it to Dwarfcon as well.

Last Wednesday eve was dinner with arjen_lentz and other MySQL staff and afficiandos. On topic, now only working 1 day per week on database documentation with Naturelinks which is relieving in a sense. The more I delve into MS-Access, VBA and MS-SQL server the more I feel like poking myself in the eye just for something interesting to do. In comparison, PHP/MySQL work is fun and interesting. Other work related tasks includes writing policy for Borderlands, setting up their new integrated network with the Augustine Centre and completing yet another website for Flinders Island as a tourist destination.

For Prosper I have the joyous task of compiling an 'information kit' for Victorian state parliamentarians (we start with the assumption they are ignorant not malicious). On 28th June I'll be speaking at the Global Learning Centre (1093 Pascoe Vale Rd) at 6.30pm along with others with the title "Please Explain Mr. Brumby?" on why the last State budget contained massive land tax cuts for the wealthiest landowners, yet needy schools are threatened with six year waiting lists for maintenance and 10,000 manufacturing jobs were lost last year (and we still have a 5% payroll tax!).

Two on-topic links: No, it's not a good industry. 97% of IT workers "traumatized" by their daily work. From greylock. Islam less than one percent reactionary. From erudito. Off-topic link; v3nu5 is now famous nude! (from v3nu5 of course).