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As mentioned in the last post, I was on Lateline on Friday night, arguing in favour of a member-component to the ALP leadership ballot and extending this to other areas; the latter part will be a very interesting challenge. As is usual with such appearance, have had a few strangers remark to me in public on this. Spent the better part of Saturday preparing for an Agile PM exam which I did on Sunday morning and, as is my want, compiled some notes on the course and put a 'blog post on my website about it.
On Sunday morning attended Rev. Dr. Debra Campbell's address at St. Michael's entited Love Needs Our Attention. It was, as can be expected, a non-denominational address on the subject and I've taken the opportunity to contact the minister concerning Feuerbach's theory of love (and God). The music was very well performed by Joe Chindamo who cheekily did a version of It Ain't Necessarily So. Afterwards attended the final meeting of the discussion group on Karen Amstrong's Charter for Compassion, which had the announcement that two members of the small group had just been awarded an Order of Australia for their long-time work in charitable causes, specifically drug rehabilitation and mental health - good examples of people who put their ideas into useful practise.
Today am preparing to take the silver bird for a short trip to Sydney to deliver training for a couple of days at the Centre for Health Informatics. The course material combines the usual three days of Linux, HPC, PBS, and MPI Programming material into two days plus some PostgreSQL, which means it'll be fairly intensive and challenging - and that's just from the person giving the course. I rather wish that I had another day or two up my sleeve to catch up with various Sydney-siders but I suspect that's not going to be the case this time.
On Sunday morning attended Rev. Dr. Debra Campbell's address at St. Michael's entited Love Needs Our Attention. It was, as can be expected, a non-denominational address on the subject and I've taken the opportunity to contact the minister concerning Feuerbach's theory of love (and God). The music was very well performed by Joe Chindamo who cheekily did a version of It Ain't Necessarily So. Afterwards attended the final meeting of the discussion group on Karen Amstrong's Charter for Compassion, which had the announcement that two members of the small group had just been awarded an Order of Australia for their long-time work in charitable causes, specifically drug rehabilitation and mental health - good examples of people who put their ideas into useful practise.
Today am preparing to take the silver bird for a short trip to Sydney to deliver training for a couple of days at the Centre for Health Informatics. The course material combines the usual three days of Linux, HPC, PBS, and MPI Programming material into two days plus some PostgreSQL, which means it'll be fairly intensive and challenging - and that's just from the person giving the course. I rather wish that I had another day or two up my sleeve to catch up with various Sydney-siders but I suspect that's not going to be the case this time.
