From Awareness through Engagement to Partnership: Cultivating Positive Emotions for a Healthy Society Dave Moskovitz – Wellington Progressive Jewish Congregation (Temple Sinai) Speech to Islam Awareness Week launch at Kilbirnie Mosque in Wellington, NZ 2 August 2010 Distinguished Guests, members of the FIANZ council, Ladies and Gentlemen – Shalom Aleichem, thank you for inviting me…
Continue reading →From next week, .nz domain names will have the ability to contain macrons. I’m really pleased to have lent a hand to the process which has enabled the complete Māori alphabet to be used in .nz domain names; I was on the “IDN” (Internationalised Domain Name) committee at InternetNZ which set up the policy and…
Continue reading →I’ve just finished helping my Mom (Dr Sarah Traister Moskovitz) publish a web site containing what might be considered to be her Magnum Opus. Poetry In Hell is the culmination of ten years of research into the poets of the Warsaw Ghetto, and their poetry rescued in buried milk cans from the Ringelblum Archives. My…
Continue reading →Earlier this year, I was invited to a Summer of Code panel session with Melissa Clark-Reynolds, Lance Wiggs, and Glenn Andert on building great businesses. This YouTube clip neatly summarises my philosophy. Enjoy!
Continue reading →Check out Luke Appleby’s Connector Blog on stuff.co.nz, discussing why Linux is so great.
Continue reading →I was in LA last week on business. My colleagues had asked me to acquire an iPad so that we could test our web sites and mobile apps on it. So I went into the Apple Store in Santa Monica, and was amazed to see it packed with so many people nearly ejaculating over the…
Continue reading →Here I am talking up the Bright Ideas Challenge, and why innovation is important to Wellington and New Zealand.
Continue reading →“Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.” – CS Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew
Continue reading →Ignite Wellington was part of Global Ignite Week, and I was invited to do a talk as part of this exciting and (as a presenter) nerve-wracking endeavour. Each presenter is given exactly 5 minutes to present, and allocated 20 Powerpoint slides which are automatically advanced every 15 seconds; the presenter has no control over the…
Continue reading →I am a propellor on an aircraft carrier I spin and thrust silently under the waterline It can unleash tremendous power It only looks like it is going slow because it is so big I am a receiver on the dish at Arecibo My friends and I are listening For the others we know are…
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