May 5, 2009
Today I was elected as the Secretary of the Business Breakfast Toastmasters Club. My experience at Toastmasters has been very rewarding. My confidence has increased significantly and I've proven to myself and others that I'm a highly competent presenter. I'm look forward to helping out the club to grow even stronger!
You can see a list of my networks at the bottom of this page.
April 22, 2009
One of the pleasures of doing a Masters programme designed for professionals is that there are so many interesting people to engage with. It's been great being able to converse with both leaders and up-and-comers of different fields.
I've also been able to get great grades! I have been consistently gettings As, which is really pleasing feedback.
May 8, 2009
Sahana is an ecosystem of free and open source applications for disaster management. Its primary focus is to enhance the coordination of different agencies working together. For example, lots of work goes into making sure that agencies can communicate together. Despite this excellent technical expertise, there are some barriers to break before Sahana takes over the world.
Mostly, these are communication barriers. Many of the applications are written by speakers who do not speak English as their first language. This means that some. They are also the kind of people who like to get their head stuck into code - not mess around with natural languages.
I still find everything a little intimidating for new users. Sure, features make sense once you've been playing around a while - but not when you first encounter the software.
This is where I come in. One of my tasks that I've set upon myself is to enhance the doumentation of the project. Some of the things I've tried to do so far include:
I hope that some of the improvements that I have been trying to achieve are seen as improvements. I would really like to see the application move forward.
May 8, 2009
Yesterday I did something for first time. I handed in the an assignment late. I guess it's just a small think, but I feel pretty bad about it. See, it's not like I didn't try - in fact I sacrificed quite a bit to get it together.
It was the first time in a long time that I had almost no idea at all what was expected of me. For starters, it's economics. Now, am I supposed to be technical or use narrative?
Grr...
Still, thanks to LaTeX and gnuplot the document does look very pretty.
I created the site because it seems like the world is very fond of Google and there are several Tim McNamaras in the world. Rather than have people search through several different sites, I thought that I could make life much simpler for people by collating everything together in one place.
If you couldn't tell, this entire site is built by hand. By all means get in touch if you spot any errors; all of my contact details are listed below.
Thanks for visiting!
I am young professional with experience in emergency risk management and intellectual property. This is grounded in a university education that includes German, philosophy, law and snippets of art history, economics and politics.
I have a wide variety of interests, including technical rope rescue, search dogs, cricket, rock-climbing and even bird watching.
I like photography, art and design. I'm just no good at it.
Recently, I've discovered how fun (read irritating) it can be to program with computers. I am learning the Ruby language. Apart from its pretty name, it has several redeeming qualities. I think my laptop is the equivalent of what a shed was in the 70s. Its somewhere that I tinker around with and try to make things that work for me.
My ethical beliefs are based on utilitarian principles. I've been a vegetarian for a number of years. Perhaps you could consider searching Google for Peter Singer to find out why.
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