http://www.drkellam.com The blog of David Robert Kellam, Melbourne Australia Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:40:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In response to this article on The Age Is seating space a big issue for you? Would you pay, say, 5% more for extra legroom in standard economy, instead of the high rates currently being charged for premium economy? Which airlines have given you the best deal on space - have ... http://www.drkellam.com/2009/08/18/airline-seat-pitches/ Ah a topic dear to my heart. Both my business partner and I care fanatically about data integrity and hence backups. I guess that makes us appropriate people to manage data for people :P We address backup from multiple dimensions: Prevention Technology People Risk Events Recovery Times Economics Communication 1. Prevention We use software RAID1 under Linux on commodity PC ... http://www.drkellam.com/2009/08/05/backup-what-you-need-to-consider/ I will be spending the coming weeks updating Coworking Melbourne to reflect my thoughts on vital aspects of this new and exciting community working exercise. Check out the twitter feed, blog and FaceBook page. http://www.drkellam.com/2009/05/14/coworking-melbourne/ I only read two web pages daily: theage.com.au and /. (The rest I either skim via RSS or only stumble across occasionally) Normally relegated to the Herald Sun, the logic flaws in this article this morning astound me: The bureau estimates that Melbourne's population grew by 74,713 in the year to last ... http://www.drkellam.com/2009/04/24/whats-wrong-with-this-picture/ Yes, I am addicted to Scrabble. It seems I'm not the only one: Gotta love XKCD... except this particular comic bugs me. A veteran scrabble (tm, c, r, wheres-my-capital-letter get-lost-and-die-under-a-torrent-of-lawyers-scrabulous all-rights-reserved-hasbro) player would never play OSTRICH for a mere 13 points, not even making a second word and destroying the beautiful ... http://www.drkellam.com/2008/11/10/scrabble/ It's a while since I posted on this blog, quite possibly because I'm too busy with my new company and reading much better or funnier blogs. Oh well, in the spirit of the Festive Season, I thought I'd share a few gems from the last year of RSS: Great post on ... http://www.drkellam.com/2007/12/23/seasons-greetings/ Sometimes The Internet is just too small. Or too young*. Whatever it is, sometimes it's a very small world. I've often had conversations about the best cartoons I remember from a kid (born 1981 in Australia, to give some perspective to that :P) but rarely bothered to take those conversations ... http://www.drkellam.com/2007/10/03/the-internet-is-a-small-place/ In response to Richard's post Companies create objects or services that they hope consumers will desire. They also must create, to truly succeed, a space, mental and physical, for the potential client to form a desire. The easiest way to do this is to understand desire at the conceptual stage of ... http://www.drkellam.com/2007/06/03/desire/ Dear all, By now some of you will have heard my talk about my latest project - A Global Obligation. Well the good news is it's open for all (Web 2.0-compliant beta mode of course!) Please do your part for humanity and check it out. If you have any feedback or ... http://www.drkellam.com/2007/05/29/a-global-obligation/ This post by Seth Godin sums up nicely what's wrong with most organisations. It certainly explains my daily frustrations in dealing with many incompetently-managed organisations. http://www.drkellam.com/2007/05/26/alignment/