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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.
Google: do as I say, not as I do
Remember the rants from Google recently about Microsoft building in MSN search into IE7…how it was anti-competitive and all that? well looks like a case of do as I say, not as I do for Google, with ZDNet reporting that the newest release of the Google toolbar blocks attempts by the competition to modify the […]
Western Australia hits the Web 2.0 news stage: introducing PerthNorg
Great news from the Western side of Australia: PerthNorg from Bronwen Clune, who I had the privilege of meeting a couple of months back at a Perth blog meetup. Question though is how to describe the site. It’s sort of Digg meets Newsvine..but in a one newspaper state I can only hope to god it […]
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.
Digg profiles for sale…hmmm
Techcrunch reports that a Top 100 Digg profile is up for sale on eBay here…current bidding at the time of writing was $305USD with 6 1/2 days left on the auction. So much for all those people who said that these profiles and position weren’t worth diddly squat..question is though, if you buy the profile […]
More Dell laptops catch fire
Dells in trouble…Dells in trouble…. 🙂
Weekend Microsoft fun
The commentator says it all: the first part of Recognition is Rec…as in trainreck :-)….
Mike Arrington joins Bastard of the Blogs
I honestly like Mike Arrington, but some of his more recent behaviour, in particular the dummy spit in relation to Nick Carr, sort of means this honour is probably well deserved: For from Those Bastards here. Tags: Mike Arrington
Doesn’t the US have the first amendment?
WTF? from ZDNet: Web sites like Amazon.com and MySpace.com may soon be inaccessible for many people using public terminals at American schools and libraries, thanks to the U.S. House of Representatives. By a 410-15 vote on Thursday, politicians approved a bill that would effectively require that “chat rooms” and “social networking sites” be rendered inaccessible […]
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 […]
Sheep make their New Zealand film debut
I just can’t stop laughing….(via The Courier Mail) A HORROR comedy about killer sheep made in New Zealand and distributed by an Australian company will premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in September. “When a reckless genetic engineering experiment goes horribly wrong, a flock of innocent sheep accidentally transforms into a pack of blood-thirsty killers,” […]
Will Cyworld take the English speaking world by storm
If you haven’t heard of Cyworld yet, it’s basically the South Korean version of MySpace, sort of Blogging come social networking (although I’d note it’s more blog like that MySpace)…and it’s come to America with the launch of an English speaking version. GigaOM has more, but off the top of my head from the days […]
Beware of Falling Dogs
Bizarre, from News.com.au: A MAN was bruised but alive after a Saint Bernard dog thrown out a two-storey window landed on him as he was walking down the street in the southern-Polish city of Sosnowiec. The 50kg dog was pushed out of the window by its drunken owner on Monday, police said. “The dog had […]
If Chris Pirillo was female, wouldn’t this be porn
Chris Pirillo has launched Rent My Chest 2.0 (via Blogebrity), but I ask this serious question: if Chris was female wouldn’t this be porn, after all, Chris has a reasonable set of man boobs here, indeed, I think his…features..are bigger than Keira Knightley’s (sorry Chris, but I’ve got to say, shame about the fez…), although […]
comScore, Techcrunch ignore Skype as an IM
Interesting post over at Techcrunch today on the latest IM usage figures…but both the figures from comScore, and Techcrunch themselves totally ignore one IM client: and that’s Skype. I use Skype as my IM client, and so do most people I know. Why, well first and foremost everyone actually uses their real names: makes it […]
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.
Where to live in Sydney?
I won’t go into the personal side of this, but I’m tossing up moving back to Sydney in the next couple of months. It’s the town I grew up in, but a town I left at the age of 21. For those of you outside of Australia, Sydney is as close as we get in […]
Blogs you should consider reading (particularly if you’re in to blogs and Web 2.0)
I’ve got an admission to make, in the last couple of months I’ve been adding to my Bloglines subs, even though I swore I would actually decrease the number…and whilst on one hand I have unsubscribed from a few sites….the number I subscribed to has actually been creping up again. Sure, I’ve only gotten out […]
The Chaser takes revenge for all of us