April 30, 2007

Isabella and Penny join the CommsCafe team in Second Life

Lee Hopkins wrote this at 1:53 pm:

Penny and Isabella

Cross-posted from my Second Life blog

I am proud to announce that as of today the CommsCafe office in Second Life is now graced with the presence of two fantastic new staff.

Isabella Scheflo, a colleague here in Adelaide, and Penny Cazelet, based in Melbourne and who I’ve actually never met, have both agreed to be ‘receptionists’ and ‘meeters and greeters’ for Allan and I at the CommsCafe.

Of course, with all but Allan being based in Australia, ensuring that someone is keeping the champagne cool at the office is not easy, so please excuse us if you visit and find no one home — blame it on the timezones! But Penny and Isabella have promised to take it in turns to be both ‘in’ Second Life and ‘in’ at their ‘First Life’ jobs at the same time! They must have understanding bosses! The times that Isabella and Penny can’t be there, Allan and I will do our best to be your less-attractive but hopefully equally engaging hosts.

Isabella and Penny know each other — in fact it was Isabella who suggested the idea of becoming our ‘far more attractive’ members of staff to Penny. The two of them approached Allan and I and we agreed instantly. Who wouldn’t?

Look out for a blog the two of them are planning — it should be ‘live’ in the next month or so, they tell me.



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April 28, 2007

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Hosted VOIP - a gift from heaven?

Lee Hopkins wrote this at 12:21 pm:

VOIP audio report - click on this image to read about VOIP and grab the free audio voip report

I‘ve just released the first of a series of articles I’m writing on VOIP telephony and it’s relevance to business communication today.

If you’re quick you can grab a free copy of an audio report I commissioned that explains what VOIP is for those who may not be aware, plus a bit of background as to how VOIP came to be. Read the article on the page then look for details about the audio report beneath it.

Might I suggest that if you are in the slightest bit interested in VOIP security, you NEED to plug into my good friend Dan York’s superb BlueBox podcast, which just recently achieved a milestone 100,000 downloads.


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April 27, 2007

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April 26, 2007

I’m singing in the rain

Lee Hopkins wrote this at 6:10 pm:

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Rain.

Beautiful, wet, earth-quenching rain.

We’ve been enjoying it all day — already there’s a 1,500 gallons in the first of our tanks just from today’s rain.

Thanks to the very gracious Alex Manchester for sending me the Bureau of Met radar image. Click on the image to see a ‘life-size’ version of how big the rain cloud is over Adelaide today. Lovely!!


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How much for a pair of boots like those, mister?

Lee Hopkins wrote this at 2:50 pm:

Ronaldinho.

The man is amazing — watch and marvel as he repeatedly hits the crossbar and returns the ball to himself. What price would you pay to get your brand attached to someone like him? Talk about the right product attached to the right product advocate…

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p.s. I know I said I would be offline for the next few days, but someone sent me this and sms’d me to watch it urgently… I had to share this with you!


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Barzakh by Anouar Brahem

Lee Hopkins wrote this at 11:55 am:

I‘m already two days late with a 2,500 word literature review of a major part of the academic ‘communications’ literature over the past decade, having seriously underestimated the amount of work required to complete a literature review (my first major assignment at doctoral level).

Sleep is not my trusty companion at the moment.

I have avoided turning on my Twitter engine (Twitteroo) and stayed away from non-uni email, there’s no rss feedreader letting me see what my friends and industry are saying, but I just had to share this with you.

For the last week and a half I have had Barzakh running non-stop on my iPod, via my ears and through my home stereo. For me it is the most sublime ‘music for research’.

Barzakh by Anouar Brahem

When I was an undergraduate (ten years ago) I used to high-rotate albums like Brian Eno’s Neroli and Ambient 4: On Land, as well as the Apex Twin’s Select Ambient Works, Volume 2 and Michael Brook’s Cobalt Blue. I also created my own ‘mixture’ collection, called ‘Music for Reading’ - see the track listing below.

I still have them on in the background now that I am ‘doctorate-ing’, but Anouar Brahem’s Barzakh is now my music of choice for study. According to Wikipedia,

Barzakh (Arabic: برزخ) is the word for the term of life after death in which the soul of the deceased is transferred across the boundaries of the mortal realm into the spirit world and into a kind of “cold sleep” where the soul will rest until the Qiyamah (Judgement Day). It is a term referred to in Islamic eschatology and the Qur’an.

Thank you to Matthew at the Royal Adelaide Hospital for putting me onto such an amazing album.

Amazon.com: Barzakh: Music: Anouar Brahem
Visit this Amazon page and you can even listen to samples of each track. If you study at home and like something on in the background that is unobtrusive, might I suggest this album.

Now, back to content analysis and this literature review… See you in another four or five days.

Oh, and it’s finally raining here in the glorious Adelaide Hills — perhaps we won’t need to buy in more water after all this year. The light drizzle may last long enough to actually tide us over until the winter rains come in earnest in a couple of month’s time.

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‘Music for Reading’ (retitled Somnabulists’ Soiree on my iPod):

  • art of noise - moments in love
  • brian eno - zawinul lava
  • the cure - all cats are grey
  • david sylvian - brilliant trees
  • giorgio moroder - bring the prod (cat people soundtrack)
  • japan - voices raised in welcome, hands raised in prayer
  • jean-michel jarre - souvenir of china
  • romeo void - going to neon
  • ruichi sakamoto - a hearty breakfast
  • ruichi sakamoto - merry christmas mr lawrence
  • tears for fears - pharoahs
  • tears for fears - the body wah
  • vangelis - himalaya



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April 25, 2007

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