We had our ITM CoE meeting on this immediate past Tuesday, where in a case of life imitating social media I got to meet Mick Leyden in-the-flesh, as it were, after meeting on Twitter. In the course of discussions around the table, one topic that came up – quite apart from the topic of, somehow, …
I presented for CPA Australia on Wednesday and Thursday of this week, firstly in Sydney, and then in Melbourne. The topic was ‘Optimising your financial reporting systems for long-term value’, and was part of their streamlining finance processes conference. Overall the presentations went fairly well. There’s always a conflict between war stories, which are interesting …
Continue reading ‘Optimising your financial reporting systems for long-term value’ »
Blogging from the back of the taxi, I’m just reminded to blog about the intriguing case I alerted to last night. I am lecturing at QUT for about seven weeks starting in about September on IT Governance. The first half is being presented by Bill Singleton, a senior associate with Allens Arthur Robertson, and he …
Continue reading ‘Dow Jones vs Gutnick – and the law’s an ass’ »
A Rostrum speech I prepared back in 2003. Good afternoon chairman, members, and guests. “The Age of Fear”. It conjures up images of a dark, bleak future, where we live in perpetual terror, where an indiscriminate Death steals our souls. An age where fear rules our waking moments, and nightmares rule our sleeping ones. Since …
Still a good machine to work on. Showed it to my physio who was very happy with the way the screen folds back – don’t have to hold your neck at an unnatural angle as much as some bigger notebooks he’s seen. Used it on my recent trip to Townsville – I think though that …