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Posts from 2004 to 2017. This was a personal blog during a fairly chaotic decade in independent publishing — some of it tech commentary, some of it Australia, some of it ephemera. It’s kept here in full for anyone who arrives via an old link.
Current writing lives at SiliconANGLE.
Another reason why I’ll be buying a Wii
From Slashdot: [in] an interview in USA Today with Nintendo’s Reggie Fils-Aime confirms that the Wii’s online component will be free to play. The outspoken Nintendo advocate says “We will offer online-enabled games that the consumers will not have to pay a subscription fee for. They’ll be able to enjoy that right out of the […]
Handball for adults?
Looks like a kiddies game called “kickball” which is big in the school yards of America (never heard of it myself) is booming amongst adults, at least according to MSNBC. Which begs the question for Australian readers, will handball be the next big Australian sport? Certainly I spent many, many lunch breaks playing and observing […]
DFAT: Dont travel to Pommie Land
Yikes! (via News.com.au) THE Government has warned Australians of the threat of an imminent terror attack in the UK after police foiled a major plot to blow up aircraft… New advice issued this afternoon by the foreign affairs department advised Australians in the UK or thinking of travelling to the UK to exercise caution and […]
Butterfly Marketing reviewed…by someone not in the ebook flogging business
Heard the hype yet? If you haven’t The Butterfly Marketing Manuscript is the best thing since sliced bread…who’s told me, well there’s Yaro, Mike himself, Joel, Eric, and half a dozen other people who I’ve never heard of, but somehow I got on their email lists and they sent me the same stuff…all of them. […]
Bomber vs Ironbar: a classic moment in Australian politics
Only in Australia, via the SMH: A federal Liberal backbencher has called Kim Beazley a “fat so and so” after the Labor leader labelled him “weak” for supporting the Government’s controversial immigration laws. Mr Beazley and West Australian Liberal Wilson Tuckey traded verbal insults, their faces within centimetres of each other, as they arrived at […]
Anyone for a Mac?
9/11 The Norad Tapes
Vanity Fair has the exclusive here. For those interested in 9/11 a must read.
Google Content Blocker
Good for a laugh🙂
Namecheap Coupons
Does anyone out there have a current coupon for namecheap? Looks like the old favourites have expired. thanks.
A Captcha that tells the truth
Sorry to Trevor Cook on this one, because this Captcha comes from his blog, but it sort of says it all about Captcha’s for me 🙂 Yep, Captcha’s are yuck…particularly to vision impared bloggers and even people like me with 20/20 vision who hate them as well.
More Dell laptops catch fire
Dells in trouble…Dells in trouble…. 🙂
Something wrong with this
Google Watch reports on Google happily handing over details to the FBI on an email sent via a nutter to the NACAP. I cant’ quite put my finger on this but something is wrong with this. Isn’t this the same Google that refused to comply with similar requests when the American Government was looking for […]
Is Google an AdWords Hypocrite?
Threadwatch points to this story at eWeek suggesting that Google is an Adwords Hypocrite with its new deal with GoDaddy for parked domain “landing pages”…and suffice to say I agree with the conclusion, on one hand Google is cracking down on poor quality landing pages (which I don’t think alone is a particularly bad thing) […]
Why are Western feminists mute on the plight of their Islamic sisters.
Paul Sheehan rocks the boat again…and he’s spot on.
The Chaser takes revenge for all of us
WIN launches Second Life Insider
Very, very cool, for a SL fan like me: Second Life Insider. Now if only I could find time to get onto SL more than once or twice a week!!!
Andy Merrett on Problogger
Andy has gone pro, and has some great, and very true reflections on what it’s like to blog for a living, I won’t repeat them all, you can read the list here, but my favourite: Time vanishes. It just goes. You?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢re up early and working, and before you know it, it?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢s early evening. My story […]
Is Astroturfing wrong in an apathetic democracy?
I’ve been reading with some interest the rise of a new anti-astroturfing campaign speerheaded by Australia’s own Trevor Cook (more here and here), but as much as I share Trevor’s, and others concerns that the act of astroturfing (if you don’t know what astroturfing is, read here) is immoral, and most likely unethical, I’m still […]
Is India the new China?
Indian ISP’s are blocking Blogger and TypePad…so much for a free and open democracy.
Those Bastards…get it totally right!
No direct link to the post, as it doesn’t seem to be working, but Those Bastards get it totally right….incumbents always play down the financial returns in a marketplace 🙂