Stephen Blyth's Blog

I stayed in an apartment behind the glitzy charade of the Crown casino ‘gambling addiction-generating’ complex. My apartment was next to a motorway fly-over, surrounded by construction sites with a full view of a multi-story carpark. Hoardings for idyllic and life changing abodes dominated the streetscape. The cool glass tall towers of Melbourne cbd a [...]

I’ve just missed the “Introduction to Social Software” session today at the Duke Street Community House. It was a bit far to travel to Melbourne to attend. The course is one of the early practical outcomes chalked up to a new project being run in Victoria, Australia. The Doing IT Better project is being run [...]

Last June Roz and I spent a week exploring the rural hinterlands near Noosa and further up the coast at Rainbow Sands. It was our last trip together before our little one came along and transformed our lives (which Elsa since has done so, of course). I was reminded of our trip after hearing a [...]

Pounding in the background is Talking Heads from on their “Stop Making Sense” live concert, now on dvd. It’s an astoundingly good concert, with a real spark over 20 years after its first release. Using the concert name for my repackaged blog is not a homage to Talking Heads, though I’m fond of their quirky, [...]

When we were doing some planning for Heartbeat last month one of the five key areas we decided to focus on was FUN. Organising fun events, that is.It all started with a list of alternatives to the proposed v8 motor-race. The list was faxed by Diana’s daughter from London. Amidst the suggestions were pram racing, [...]

I didn’t manage to visit the Smith Family’s Community Technology Learning Centre (CTLC) in Collingwood when I was working in Melbourne earlier in the year, but I wish I had. The Centre has recently been declared Australia’s official demonstration site for the Microsoft Unlimited Potential (UP) Programme. Microsoft are partnering with the Smith Family and [...]