• I’m moving industries, from the media industry, to a new start in telecommunications.

  Four years working for internet providers, and four years providing software solutions to newspapers — mobile devices are the next round of design constraints to learn.

• I’m moving residence, from Melbourne to a city up the coast, Brisbane.

  Not quite an overseas move, but a substantial geographical shift. Having lived in Melbourne for as long as I can remember, Brisvegas will be interesting.

• I’m moving eating habits, from omnivore to vegetarian.

  After a month, have yet to start craving meat, and have learnt that pickled ginger is the garnish for sushi, not strips of salmon.

And, this site has moved from a bedroom in Melbourne to a data centre in the United States. A big thanks to Jeremy for a seamless transition!

Insight into the world of online networks:

The world is not an undirected graph and very little about social life online is actually undirected. Many social relations are unequal; they are rooted in directional graphs - fandom, power, hierarchy. So why do we use undirected models?

In an article by Zephoria, a very interesting person with a lot to say. Found via an undirected link to a neighbor in my last.fm listings.

ps. for pimping last.fm, see Fred Wilson’s comments.

Joel Spolsky has an interesting article about the difficulty of identifying an exceptional programmer if they are using Java.

To quote:

The recruiters-who-use-grep, by the way, are ridiculed here, and for good reason. I have never met anyone who can do Scheme, Haskell, and C pointers who can’t pick up Java in two days, and create better Java code than people with five years of experience in Java, but try explaining that to the average HR drone.