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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.
The lost spectators of the Athens Olympics
Im watching far too much olympics at the moment and not enough time blogging, if the Blog Herald is a little short in the next two weeks you’ll know why. One thing strikes me though, with the exception of the Swimming, the stands at ALL the other events are nearly completely empty. In Sydney you […]
New Jersey Governor Resigns due to Gay affair
WNYC News: In a stunning declaration, Gov. James E. McGreevey acknowledged that he had an extramarital affair with another man and announced his resignation Thursday. “My truth is that I am a gay American,” he said. “Shamefully, I engaged in adult consensual affairs with another man, which violates my bonds of matrimony,” the married father […]
Like we all need to work harder
Wired: Turning Slackers Into Workaholics Researchers use a gene treatment to turn off monkeys’ dopamine receptors – yielding harder-working, more focused monkeys. Despite obvious applications in the corporate world, the scientists say they’re just trying to understand mental illness.
Txt as a tool in US politics
Wired is running a story that txt has been picked up as a tool amongst political campaigners in the US. Ive never understood why txt has taken so long to take off in the US? Just for once the rest of the world is far ahead here with the tool being used for years for […]
It’s back
After testing evey blog tool after the sun and then learning wordpress from the bottom up, my personal blog rises from the dead to return some 9 months after the last effort was abondoned due to The Blog Herald taking up far too much time. Ive missed the opportunity to blog on things non-blog related, […]