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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.
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1 down, 2 to go
Next gambling and porn….. MILLIONS of Australians who tape TV shows and copy CDs will soon get the right to do it with a clear conscience.
Pandora’s Box of music
Cant remember where I read about this, but its still none the less cool: Pandora from the Music Genome Project. Basically online radio with a twist: you type in the artist or band you like and they deliver you music from that artist/ band + similar artists/ bands they think you would like. Very nice […]
Considering the Cronulla disturbances
All the nets abuzz about the disturbances at Cronulla in Sydney, and the reaction of the main stream media compared to bloggers has been amazing. Whilst the mainstream media seem to label what occured at Cronulla as “rascist riots” parts of the Australian blogosphere seem to be the only people supporting the PM in reporting […]
Strewth
Chinese ‘farms’ amass avatars and virtual gold for gaming sale No wonder so many people in World of Warcraft don’t say a lot to each other.
NASA dumps IE for Firefox
Good news for Firefox fans, NASA has dumped IE in favour of Firefox.
All I want for Christmas
I really, really love this. http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?whse=&topnav=&prodid=11098104 Check out the games list, amazing classics. Mortal Kombat, 1942, Ghosts N’ Goblins (ok I played this on the Amstrad 6128 mainly, but I did play it in the arcade on occasion), Asteroids…. There are two games they are missing though. Pacman, which I played on the Atari, and […]
The Day After Tomorrow
Got to love this, with everyone running around yelling the sky is falling in, or in this case, the planets going to bake with global warming, New Scientist reports that there is a risk of a miniice age. Sometimes I wish people would actually start taking a serious look at history. I heard some idiot […]
World of Warcraft Day 1
Well, finally, finally the 5 1/2 million WOW patches downloaded and late last night, after some serious blog work I logged in and set up my character. I’m apparently a night elve (or was it elf??). First impressions, compared to say Second Life, the customisation options for characters are very limited. So off I went, […]
World of Warcraft Madness
A little tidbit: I bought World of Warcraft on Saturday, and thought to myself last night (Sunday) that I’d install it and have a go. Its now Monday night, and I’m still not playing it. Install with 5 CD’s took about 1 hour, then the 1st patch was about a 250mb download which took a […]
Megablocks beat Lego in court
Admission time here: as a kid I was a huge lego fan: I had an extensive lego railway and town, probably 10 sq metres of it atleast, and probably more, it actually took up a whole room in a house we once lived in. So as much as my son owns megablocks and lego, this […]
Go the Swiss
This is leadership: The Register: An extraordinary criticism of Tunisia?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢s approach to the Internet was fired at its president Zine Ben Ali at the opening ceremony of the World Summit in Tunis this morning. Swiss president Samuel Schmid drew huge applause from the back of the room when he directly criticised Tunisia?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢s controlling Internet policies. […]
We’re off to Germany, you beauty!!!!
What more can I say, that YOU BLOODY RIPPER!!!! I watched the penalty shoot out, it was Soccer at its best, and for the first time in my entire lifetime (the last time Australia went to the world cup was 74, I was born in 75) we have made the WORLD CUP! YOU BEAUTY!!!!!! SMH […]
FlightAware
This is pretty cool: FlightAware. Saw it on Joi Ito’s blog, he says that he wishes it was international. What would they do for Western Australia though, you could probably track the domestic traffic with less than 10 dots, and this for a state bigger than Western Europe 🙂
F! the press
One thing that really sh*ts me about the press is the lies they use, and the biggest lie of all is that there was no weapons of mass distruction in Iraq. Because folks, there was. Here is a short list 0.77 metric tons of enriched uranium 1,500 gallons of chemical weapons agents Chemical warheads containing […]
Hazy shade of winter
OK, maybe not that bizarre but I was listening to Club977 on my Windows MCE power PVR last weekend and they were playing the Top 10 cover songs of the 80’s based on hits from the 60’s, and on came Hazy Shade of Winter by the Bangles…..and I don’t think I’ve stopped singing it in […]
It’s Halloween
Apparently its Halloween, so my wife tells me as about 8 kids knocked on the door tonight here in Western Australia, which is all very well and good…except that it’s an American thing and I really have no interest in it. So the kids at the door didn’t get a lecture about the evils of […]
Playing with Flcok
Flock imports your del.icio.us list, and syncs up your local Favorites with your del.icio.us ones. Each time you star a page as a Favorite, it is added to both your local and your del.icio.us list. well…above is the cut and paste I just did from flock, there is just no way of moving it down […]
Hapiness is an ezine redescovered
No, I’m not being paid for this, but I want to share it none the less, I’ve been looking at all sorts of money moneying things to complement the b5media blogs and what should I stumble upon: Affiliateprograms.com. I read this ezine for years (probably 10??) and somewhere along the way, probably when I last […]
Crowded House alternative? now things are getting strange
Its the Queens Birthday long weekend here, so I’m sitting at home doing some site scripting, fixing the wifes laptop, and a few other things, and I think to myself: why not put on some music. So I fire up Winamp (the AOL Music/ Winamp music and video lists are first rate) and I’m flicking […]
Jeez these things are good
A damn fine assessment You are a Social Liberal (60% permissive) and an… Economic Conservative (81% permissive) You are best described as a: Capitalist Link: The Politics Test on OkCupid Free Online Dating