Skip to content

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 [...]

Forthcoming

28-Aug-08

Oz-IA: a weekend of information architecture, 20-21 September 2008 in Sydney. I attended the first Oz-IA conference two years ago and loved it; missed last year’s event, so am looking forward to the 2008 gathering. You can get a A$110 discount on the registration fee.
2008 Higher Education Data Warehousing Conference, 23-24 September 2008 at the [...]