CPA Australia have asked me to present at their conference in Melbourne in October. They didn’t want to do Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme – that’s already been well-covered apparently. I did suggest that I could relate some case studies from the field about data governance – you know, how to get databases right and so … Read more
Context This blog pot is an assignment I wrote for my subject at University of Queensland. Since it is never likely to be published anywhere, I did the next best thing – turn it into a serious looking blog post. Somewhat more of an experiment than anything else. Author: Micheal Axelsen 1 Introduction This paper … Read more
I am a delinquent blogger. Very, very delinquent. That isn’t because I haven’t been doing interesting stuff, it is because I have, and although I tweet regularly, I don’t always get around to making another blog post. So by way of ‘advance notice’, I am just saying’, I am presenting at a panel for CPA … Read more
This little ditty was inspired by a Facebook status update of a friend, for clear reasons: (to the tune of any bluegrass song you like) Oh we found a dead snake in the tank It’s really rather rank! We found we were drinking water When we really shouldn’t oughta! (chorus) Oh that wasn’t all we … Read more
I’m married to my very own geek girl, who is a devil at Trivial Pursuit and answers questions like ‘Why can’t dead people participate in the tax refund bonanza going on in Australia at the moment?‘ – and is actually right (unlike most people at pub quizzes). I also remember going to a musical performance … Read more