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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.
PC-less VoIP WiFi phone
This is very cool, from el Reg: A little-known company called BCM used Computex to show a multi-format VoIP Wi-Fi phone based on the Windows CE kernel. The WLAN800I is compatible with Skype, SIP services, MSN Talk and MSN Messenger….There’s no need for a PC for it to function, all you need is an 802.11b/g […]
Anyone for legal action
Noticed this media release on one of my Google feeds this morning, this goose is trying to flog 600 names for “blog portals” that include the name BlogSpot….yep, the very same name trademarked and owned by Google, and he wants $699 USD per domain for each one….I can feel Google’s lawyers sharpening their pens already […]
YOU BLOODY BEAUTY!
The Score says it all: Australia 3 v Japan 1 GO THE SOCCEROOS!!!!!!! Next stop: Brazil.
It’s the end of the internet as we know it
The US Congress today failed to support a vote to enshrine net neutrality into law. Why does this matter to me you may well ask? well think about it this way, who owns the trans-pacific cables? If I visit a page hosted in the states, how does it get there? it’s got to go via […]
Now this is an Adsense cheque!
Check out Macrus of Plenty of Fish’s Adsense Cheque: $991,773.04 for two months…..wow! Tags: Plenty of Fish
Web 2.0 company Pageflakes resorts to Web 1.0 email spam
Pageflakes, apparently yet another Web 2.0 online-OS startup, has resorted to spamming people in an attempt to get their RSS subs button up on blogs. I received this email from Pageflakes on 5 June: From: Tegan Harris (Pageflakes) [email protected] Reply to: [email protected] Date: 5/06/2006 8:58pm To: [email protected] Hi Seth, My name is Tegan and I […]
Aggressive advertising
Aggressive advertising thanks to Fark, the best photoshop contest they’ve held in a long time. My two favourties as follows:
Google Browser Sync?
Google has announced Google Browser Sync, a Firefox Plugin that basically backs up your bookmarks, passwords, cookies and what not to the Google servers so you can access them from anywhere in the world if you are away from your computer. Honest thoughts: do people really want to give Google access to everything? I guess […]
OK, Google Spreadsheets is cool
Got my invite today to Google Spreadsheets, initial thoughts: it’s pretty damn cool. It’s quick, and it seems to do everything I’d ever want to do with a spreadsheet, at least is plays like Excel does in terms of formula which is…well cool. Is it a Microsoft killer? I still don’t think so, but there […]
Feedburner Partners With TypePad
Very nice for TypePad users, although I’m interested to know how SixApart is implementing it, modredirect through .htaccess perhaps? From Techcrunch: Feedburner and TypePad will announce a partnership on Thursday that will allow TypePad users to automatically redirect their existing TypePad RSS feed into Feedburner. Until now, if a TypePad user wanted to transfer RSS […]
Nick Denton and Gawker Media cause World Crisis
According to Reuters: The only sites I’m aware of at the moment running the pics of little Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt: Gawker Media’s Gawker and Defamer! (via A Socialites Life) Tags: Nick Denton, Gawker Media, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Shiloh Nouvel Jolie Pitt
Not happy Bill!
Latest news on Microsoft is that Windows XP communicates with Microsoft once a day…yep, basically Microsoft has been secretly spying on computers and hasn’t owned up to it until now. Personally I’ve got nothing to fear as my two computers running XP (one is XP MCE) both have legit copies (and yes, they are registered […]
Bloggers vs Time Inc.
The Gallery of the Absurd hits the mark again! Tags: Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Gawker, Time Inc
Vox looking good
I was fortunate enough to receive an invite overnight from Anil Dash to SixApart’s new blogging/ social networking tool Vox (previously known as Comet). I’ve just had a quick play with it. Initial thoughts: 1. Vox has the potential to be a big hit. It works quickly, presents well, and has some nice features. 2. […]
Eat, Drink, Smoke, Sleep around…and live to be old
As the old saying goes: Eat, Drink and be merry, for tomorrow you may die, or in this guys case, live to 110, from the BBC: Britain’s oldest surviving war veteran has celebrated his 110th birthday at the Grand Hotel in Eastbourne….In the past Mr Allingham has put the key to his old age down […]
Download this Song
Caught this song on the radio yesterday, it’s apparently No. 6 on some commercial radio chart. Catchy, and interesting lyrics, and apparently MC Lars is touring Australia at the moment, with a visit to Bunbury as well! Download This Song It’s 2006, the consumer’s still pissed Won’t take it anymore so I’m writing a list […]
PubSub in deep….you know what
Mike Arrington at Techcrunch reports on rumours that PubSub is imploding, which is interesting given they’ve just announced a deal with Burrellesluce Media Monitoring Services. Honestly, I don’t remember the last time I tried using PubSub, I gave up on these guys a long time ago, particularly when Technorati started to get their act together […]
How to kill your blog? Don’t kill it at all
Darren has a post over at Problogger on how to kill your blog. Personally I don’t believe in killing blogs these days at all. Two reasons: 1. Although you might not be posting to it anymore you could still be getting traffic (say from Google) and this traffic can still equal revenue. 2. You can […]
Google to compete with Flickr?
Steve Rubel reports on references at Google’s Picasa to “Web Albums”, a potential competitor to Flickr perhaps? I love Picasa, it’s one of those apps I recommend to anyone and everyone who has a digital camera. I long since abondoned my Kodak Picture software for Picasa…it’s a great program, sure it doesn’t have all the […]
Enough already with the Microsoft Killer Talk
Jeremy and I don’t often see eye to eye on certain tech things relating to Microsoft, I’ve always been an Open Source fanwhore where as Jeremy spent time working for (or was that with) Microsoft, and tends to be rather pro-Microsoft (I’m not anti-Microsoft (I use XP for example), I just prefer to have choice […]