Govt backflips on regional funding decision. The Federal Government has reversed a $250 million Budget decision to cut funding to Regional Partnerships programs. [ABC News: Breaking Stories]
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In a Letter to His Kids, Wired's Founding Editor Recalls the Dawn of the Digital Revolution. Dear Orson and Zoe, Fifteen years ago, when your mom and I started Wired, you weren't even born. And now look at you — you guys were playing Go Fish with the original crew at the magazine's 15th anniversary party. Back in 1993, we…
Academic shortages. In today’s Australian, an article about potential shortages in academic staff. I was quoted: According to Hugo, the oldest baby boomers will pass 65 in 2011, so the exodus of academic retirees will gather momentum during the second and third decades of the century. But Melbourne Business School economics professor Joshua Gans says “the crunch time will be…
Julia Gillard's schools - Alice in Fundingland. Julia Gillard is making serious errors in trying to blur the distinctions between public and private schools. By editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Chris Bonnor). [On Line Opinion - Latest Articles]
Clinic offers $1m for radiologist. A NORTH Queensland x-ray clinic is offering a salary of up to a $1 million for a new radiologist because of the worldwide shortage in the profession. [Herald Sun | Breaking News]
The 16-year rewrite. In February 1992, I started work a piece of Frontier called the scheduler. It's the equivalent of what they call "cron" in Unix-Land. You can put scripts in four different places: 1. everyMinute scripts, 2. hourly scripts, 3. overnight scripts and 4. threads. It was a simple bit of code that's been running now for 16 years,…
News unfiltered: YouTube embraces citizen journalism. With an official new channel for reports from people around the world, YouTube hopes to make itself the online home for citizen journalism. Great power for the masses, however, brings great responsibility. [Creative Economy : Reports]
Better Education Tops the List. Two perspectives from the Business Council of Australia in the last month around the future challenges for the Australian education system . 1. ... [Central Ranges LLEN News]
G8 ministers stress international cooperation on environment.. The G8 environment ministers meeting, which concluded here Monday, highlighted cooperation between developed and developing nations. [Environmental Health News]