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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.
Telecom New Zealand to split wholesale and retail operations, so why can’t the Australian Government do the same thing with Telstra?
The Register reports that Telecom New Zealand has announced plans to create an independent wholesale operation to promote competition in the industry. These quotes are interesting: If successful, rival operators should be able to get equal access to Telecom’s wholesale network, giving them greater scope to compete and invest in broadband services. “The country expects […]
Finally, an Alexa tool for Firefox
Spotted this one at the Search Engine Journal, Search Status, a Firefox plugin that integrates Alexa rankings (and naturally phones home to Alexa as well to track your page viewing habits) into Firefox, where as Amazon/ Alexa has never gotten around to providing something similar themselves. It also displays Google PageRank, all in the bottom […]
Rocket Post, yet another blog posting tool
Darren’s got a great big list of professional blogging links over at Problogger today and instead of doing the work I should have been doing I spent some time checking out a few of the links, and discovered yet another blog posting tool, RocketPost for Anconia. It certainly looked interesting enough from their page to […]
Italy 1 Australia 0, Australia robbed.
At 12:52 am WST, Australia loses to Italy in the last second by a dodgy penalty in the goal box awarded to Italy. Simply, we were robbed. I wonder how much Italy paid the referee. Tags: World Cup Update: Australia agrees, we were robbed.
Geneticist believes people will live to 1,000
How does that song on the radio go? …Forever Young? From the BBC: Life expectancy is increasing in the developed world. But Cambridge University geneticist Aubrey de Grey believes it will soon extend dramatically to 1,000.
A good hard stalk needs a big cold beer, and the best cold beer is Vic….from Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban
Only in Australia! (via a Socialiteslife) After staking out Kidman’s harbourside Sydney house for most of the day, some 20 photographers heard her garage door start to rise and quickly armed themselves with motor-drive cameras. But instead of a shot of the bride and groom before the wedding day, the paparazzi were met by two […]
I can’t quite gather what Gather is?
Read this on Ben Barrens blog pointing to a new blog: Doomed Startup who is covering Gather.com. Can’t say I could recall the company so I checked out the site, all I can say is WTF? This is suppose to be something like Newsvive, but if you visit Newsvine it’s pretty easy to work out […]
So long Yaro Starak, and thanks for all the spam!
I’ve been following with interest an up and coming Australian blogger for some time, one Yaro Starak, who writes an interesting blog, Entrepreneur’s Journey. To date, I’ve found Yaro’s content a worth while read… then last week he decided to flog Made for Adsense templates from Joel Comm, a guy who I’ve written about in […]
Gada be another crappy name
Techcrunch reports on Chris Pirillo’s Gada.be changing its name to TagJag. Certainly I nice new look for the site, but what is it with Chris Pirillo and crappy names? Tagjag? Why not Tagfaghag, or Taggnome? 🙂 Sure, Lockergnome isn’t a pretty name but it’s easy to remember, and Tagjag meet’s the old marketing rules on […]
Why the US Government is stuffed!
Check this video in full, then tell me, what’s wrong with this picture, aside from the obvious reactions 🙂
I love Camilla…sorry
Got to admit, I love Big Brother’s Camilla. I felt so bad when I read this, she’s a great girl with a great personality….maybe I should jet to the Gold Coast if (and when) she’s evicted and offer her a b5media gig! I’d love to have that voice here!. Tags: Camilla, Big Brother
Jason Calacanis takes a digg (or is that Netscape) at Nick Denton
Cat fight, cat fight, this from Jason Calacanis’ blog: That’s Gawker’s standard blogging process–print a lie, admit you screwed up, but never change the error… sort of Jayson Blair style I love these wars, they are sooooo much fun 🙂 Tags: Nick Denton, Jason Calacains, Gawker Media, Weblogs Inc
Wireless piggybacking….I wish
A bloke in the States is in strife for using a cafe’s free wireless connection without buying stuff from the shop….but all I can say from country Western Australia is I wish I could get any wireless here, anywhere, which of course with the exception of the local McDonalds outlet (which is pay of course, […]
Here we go, here we go, here we go…..
Australia 2 v Croatia 2. Australia advances to the knock out round of 16 playing Italy 11pm (+8 GMT) Monday, which means unlike this morning where I slept through my 3am alarm, I can stay up and watch it! YOU LITTLE RIPPER! And I love this SMH Graphic! Tags: socceroos, World Cup
I’ve got Vox Invites + I’ve been upgraded
Want an invite to SixApart’s new you beaut MySpace killer? I’ve got invites to Vox, at least to the starter version which doesn’t allow you to blog but atleast get’s you in the door (I think you get upgraded later?). Leave a comment with your email address included or drop me an email directly. Also […]
Techcrunch under fire
Looks like Mike Arrington is under attack on two fronts: from Nick Denton’s Valleywag for Text Link Ads sponsorship, and by Adam Kalsey for a Zoho backflip allegedly due to a sponsorship. I don’t know enough about the Zoho stuff, but the Valleywag attack is complete and utter sh*te. Text Link Ads are a legitimate […]
Google testing affiliate marketing program
Big news overnight: Seeking Alpha has the scoop on Google testing an affiliate marketing program, or what they are calling a CPA (cost per action) program that many say will be a Value Click Media/ Commission Junction (CJ) killer. Can’t say I disagree with this analysis. I’ve never liked CJ, from when they kicked me […]
The fat lady still isn’t singing for me
Opera have announced the latest version of their browser, and unfortunately it still doesn’t do it for me. Got to say it’s a vast improvement over some of their earlier versions, it’s (fairly) quick, it renders CSS properly (I can still remember problems with v7), and their Widgets are pretty cool….its getting close but I […]
Drunk Elephants and Giraffes
Looks like even animals know how to party 🙂
Cover me up?
A story of the Bizarre from the BBC: Rebecca Holdcroft likes to “express” herself through body art. However, she felt she was being discriminated against at work and contacted the BBC News website to express her point of view. Even though she does not deal with the public face-to-face, her latest employers told her she […]