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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.
Wii…I’m disapointed
This from the Beeb. I haven’t personally owned a game console since the Atari 2600, and yet I was really, really looking forward to the Wii, it sounds like the sort of console a non-console gamer like me would want, and yet if the beeb article is correct it will come in at around $420 […]
Ze on the rules of flying
the show with zefrank
I don’t get cold tea
Just noticed this post over on Southern ByWays (a b5media blog) on a recipe for “sweet tea…southern style” which made me think: I don’t get cold tea. It seems to be a big American thing, and whilst you can still buy cans of “Lipton Ice” at supermarkets in Australia, they don’t sell a lot of […]
The demise of the political bloggers
Andrew Sullivan has some interesting figures on the decline in readership of US political blogs this year. The question is though is, have political blogs had their day? I can see some arguing that the drop off is because the US is half way through the Presidential cycle, and yet I remember reading last year, […]
Oh God, please no! plus something odd going on at Techcrunch
A new service for backing up photos: Backupr. Another wankr name. I feel sick. What’s really odd though is that the post I saw in Bloglines about it at Techcrunch has oddly been deleted from the Techcrunch site: to this: It’s also not on the main page at the time of writing either…which can only […]
AOL Data, OMG!
Check this and this out…both awful and extremely funny at the same time. PS: no pics but content NSFW. (via BlackHat-SEO Blog) Tags: AOL data
Is Web 2.0 actually a vicious circle?
Steve Rubel makes a very, very brilliant observation on Web 2.0 today… Quietly, an entire Web 2.0 economy has blossomed. The Web sites and blogs that cover Web 2.0 – sites that I really love – are largely supported by ads from startups that also are hoping to capitalize in the rising interest in online […]
Digg over Dugg?
There’s trouble afoot at Digg today, I keep getting this message: Perhaps it’s time Kevin Rose sold out and let someone with some extra server capacity take over 🙂 Tags: Digg, Digg down, Digg not working
Sure, it’s a storm, but there’s lots of bubble activity out on the sea
Grouper purchased by Sony for $65m USD, roughly $70 – $120 USD per user. This is seriously, seriously, nuts. The company that does it’s best to ruin music for all of us with its crappy rootkits and DRM technology buys a video sharing service….wonder how long it takes till Grouper dies….6 months, 12 months? with […]
Screw You…and your trademark
From The Register: “A businessman has failed to win the right to register the term “screw you” as a wide-ranging European trademark because it is offensive. It can be used, but only for goods sold in sex shops, the European trademark authority has ruled.”
It’s just not cricket!
Cheeky sods! Tags: b5media, Creative Weblogging
Watch the Chicken Noodle Soup Video
According to Greywolf, the Chicken Noodle Soup Video is the next big thing in the States…can’t say I’ve heard of the Chicken Noodle Soup Video or Chicken Noodle Soup song for that matter, but here it is, the Chicken Noodle Soup Video! Sort of Chicken Dance comes rap..sort of…bizarre. Tags: Watch the Chicken Noodle Soup […]
The 10 ways Australia would be different if we were an American State
Inspired by Darren’s recent list making competitions, I present some facts for those who think Australia is nothing more than an American State: The 10 ways Australia would be different if we were an American State 1. Our currency would be made out of paper and would be green. Not only would it be really […]
Content isn’t dead
Chartreuse today suggests that content is dead, but it isn’t because as much as I fear that the rise of the totalitarian nanny state is upon us (socialism meets 1984) content still doesn’t come in one flavour, it comes in many different flavours, and like Ice Cream we all have different favourites, and hence we […]
Tornado Watch
I think it’s probably raining to much for there to be a tornado today, but I’ve got the camera ready just in case…and certainly on my drive into town today the Preston and Collie Rivers looked like they were pretty close to bursting…so maybe I can get some flooding shots 🙂 SEVERE WEATHER WARNING For […]
72 million blogs on Windows Live Spaces, do you believe me now about Technorati?
Robert Scoble reports that there are now 72 million blogs on Windows Live Spaces alone, this when Technorati tracks 50 (odd) million all up across the globe…and people don’t believe me when I say there is 300 million odd blogs out there on the internet because they tell me Technorati says there are 50 million…. […]
Web 2.0: it’s not a bubble, it’s the start of a storm
Australians are often fond of the saying that we call a spade a (insert strong expletive here) shovel. Web 2.0 is, according to many, entering a bubble. And yet bubbles are these nice rounded things that kids make from plastic $2 made in China kits which eventually burst. Sure, Web 1.0 was a bubble, it […]
Machine translation is go!
I’ll have to watch my bonzer bobs, my buggers and my howyagoinmates, but I’ve added this translation plugin to the sidebar….after a little feedback from an internal b5 test I struck Chinese and Korean off the list, and I’ll probably end up taking Japanese off as well, but we’ll see how it goes, or if […]
Anyone had any experience with Engin or similar Australian VOIP companies?
I looked at my Telstra bill during the week, and I’m seriously considering dumping my Telstra landline…nearly half the bill is made up of Telstra charges: I pay extra to have my number not listed, I pay extra to have call number display…it’s stupid and given I’ve got a 2mb Cable connection I don’t need […]
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