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Naming and framing

20-Feb-10

The Onion reports on a forgotten Assyrian god revived to name a sports drink. Go Nisroch!
Perhaps the Nisroch article caught my eye because I work at an organisation whose:

corporate logo features Nike, the Greek goddess of victory (and was created long before the sports-shoe company)
HR/finance enterprise system is called Themis, after the Greek goddess associated [...]

Oz-IA - call for participation

10-Aug-09

The Oz-IA conference has become an annual must-do weekend. Lots of interesting people to meet, lessons to learn, coffee to drink.
The 2009 call for participation went out this week.
I gave a short presentation last year, and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Highly recommended, even if it’s your first time as a presenter — the Oz-IA crowd [...]