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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.
Calling Mr Al Kyder
I love the Chaser, again another story via the SMH: ABC TV’s Chaser boys have struck again…The pranksters pulled off a stunt at Sydney Airport on Wednesday which saw Virgin Blue staff make a “final boarding call” announcement for five late passengers, including one which sounded suspiciously like Mr Al Qaeda and another which sounded […]
Struth: Coles Myer to be bought by Americans!
Via the SMH COLES MYER is likely to fall into foreign hands in what is shaping as the biggest corporate takeover in Australian history, valued at more than $16 billion. A group of US financiers, believed to be led by the private investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co, is understood to be behind an […]
Web 2.0 remixed…thank god for Robin Good
Fess up time for me, I didn’t sit through the whole Techcrunch Web 2.0 video…it was to long, I lost interest about a quarter of the way in…but Robin Good has stayed loyal to his name and done something good: the Web 2.0 video remix, a total of 3 minutes, which cuts out some of […]
And you thought you lived in a bad street
From the SMH: Maori living in a number of New Zealand towns have – not to put too fine a point on it – been living in Shit Street for years. Their road name signs actually read Kaka Street and, having been erected by predominantly English-speaking local councils, are supposed to be the name of […]
Something not right about this line
From Techcrunch: “it?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢s so ajax intensive that it?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢s really smooth to use” Is it me of does this sound like a pitch for drugs or similar? 🙂
Are you cynical?
You Are 52% Cynical Yes, you are cynical, but more than anything, you’re a realist. You see what’s screwed up in the world, but you also take time to remember what’s right. How Cynical Are You?
Robert Scoble 2.0
Robert notes over on his blog today “I think Om and Mike are telling all their fans ?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?Ö‚Äúemail Scoble, it?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢ll keep him uninteresting”. I’m guessing it’s a reference to his more recent posts to Scobleizer…since he’s left Microsoft the tone has changed alot, it’s more personal, more insightful, sure, perhaps less controversial, but for my […]
Macs are a crashing all over the place!
What would you rather, a Windows PC that runs for weeks without crashing (like mine do, indeed I’ve not rebooted my XP MCE PVR box for about 6 weeks now, and that then was only because of a critical systems update), or a Mac that crashes every other day? Lets ask some high profile Mac […]
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 […]
AOL Acquires GameDaily
Looks like another nice acquisition for AOL, with news that they’ve acquired Games Daily: AOL LLC announced today that it has acquired GameDaily ( http://www.gamedaily.com ), one of the Internet’s leading independent video game publications, from Gigex, Inc. AOL’s agreement with Gigex closed on August 10th, 2006. Financial terms were not disclosed. Founded in 1995 […]
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 […]
Will the AOL Digg spamming story be the most Dugg story ever?
This story is going to make big headlines in the next couple of days, although I’m sure I’ve read something similar in the past. What shocked me though was the rate in which the story at Digg itself is getting Dugg. I opened the page up at Digg to see what the fuss was about. […]
Today’s smiles
Whilst I’m still waiting on my latest attempt to convert Thunderbird files to something I can use elsewhere (it’s been an hour running now!), two quick smiles both from Fark: On this story about a hit and run at a McDonalds outlet, the Fark headline: “Disgruntled McDonald’s customer runs into two other customers with her […]
Blogging at The Blogging Times
Yep, my first rant is live, I’ve signed on the dotted line to do a weekly column at The Blogging Times upon invitation from Chartresue. I tossed up a couple of good ideas for the first post, but I kept coming back to the blogging market place, and the flaws in Long Tail Theory as […]
The coming demise of Mike Arrington, the reporter
The end is nigh…we’ll it is for Mike Arrington, and I’ll tell you why: Crunchboard and Crunchgear. Unlike a whole pile of other people who think that the move by Mike Arrington to launch a gadget blog is nuts (how many times have I read the phrase “not another gadget blog” or similar in Bloglines […]
Trackback Mistakes
Quadszilla over at the SEO Black Hat blog has a very interesting tale of how Trackbacks can get you into trouble here….it’s a must read for every blogger…aside from a WordPress plugin though I’m not sure of any other way of avoiding this other than by not using apostrophes in post headings….which I personally usually […]
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. […]
How to get rid of the blogging blues: update your feed reeder
I’ve long been an advocate of keeping your feed subscriptions to a minimum, I know when I’ve read about ppl like Steve Rubel and Robert Scoble in the past where they’ve talked about having 500 feeds in their RSS reader accounts I’ve publicly said this is nuts (and 500, BTW, still is)…but I’ve discovered a […]
What to write for my new weekly gig
I’ve just signed up for a weekly gig at another blog (outside of b5..I’ll name it on another day..but it will be a weekly column working with some really cool ppl) but I’m a bit stumped if I know exactly at this stage what to write about (although I’ve got a few ideas)..it’s got to […]