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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.
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Firefox 1.5.0.2: complete with bugs!
Anyone experiencing semi-regular crashes of the latest release of Firefox? It updated itself last week and ever since it’s crashed for me maybe 3-4 times a day….damn annoying, but it’s still safer than using IE 🙂
Humour on Scriptlance
I’m not sure how long this listing will last….but I’ve got to love the response: Project: Blog commenter ID: 1145900161 Status: Open Budget: N/A Created: 4/24/2006 at 13:36 EST Bidding Ends: 5/1/2006 at 13:36 EST (6 days left) Project Creator: oxley1165 Rating: (No Feedback Yet) Description: I would like a program created which will post […]
Anzac Day 2006
Lest We Forget. Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There’s none of these so lonely and poor of old, But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold These laid the world away; poured out the red Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be Of work and joy, and that […]
The extra long weekend and searching for a new lounge: the odd parallels with blogging
It?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢s unofficially an extra long weekend here in Australia, with the Anzac Day Public Holiday tomorrow (Tuesday) many, many people have taken the Monday off work. She who must be obeyed was one of them 🙂 So we trekked up to Mandurah today to shop for a new lounge suite. The last major purchase I?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢ll […]
Are 25-40 year old parents leading the Web 2.0 revolution?
Just an idle thought. A lot of people I’m talking to online and offline lately involved in Web 2.0 (including some cutting edge blogging stuff) are 25-40 and have young kids. Am I falling into the trap I was always afraid of when I wrote The Blog Herald where I’ve become insular and naturally refined […]
Evangalising Australian blogging and Web 2.0: the Perth Blog Meetup
Having finally got through a backlog of work I wanted to post about my trip to Perth the Wednesday night just gone, and the great people I met at the Perth Blog Meetup. Worst thing, I didn’t take notes so I’m going to forget some names, but if I have missed you, apologies in advance. […]
Name this city
It’s 6:15pm at night. All the shops are closed. Gangs are fighting outside the closed shops in the main mall amongst themselves, screaming and kicking. A single police car sits at one end of the mall, two officers sitting inside watching but not acting. The few remaining office workers who dared leave their trip to […]
Petrol Panic
Was it Skyhooks with the song “We’re living in the 70s”?. Yesterday I had to fill up on my way back from Perth. I made the mistake (well I think it was a mistake) of stopping at the Caltex Woolworths outlet in Mandurah. It took me 40 minutes to get to the pump, fill up, […]
Digging a bloody great big hole.
Digg is in strife. Big time. Despite some unfortunate comments from Jason Calacanis which I think were totally unhelpful, For those of you who haven’t been following the whole thing, I’ll try to surmise it (some parts may be missed, comment if I need to add anything). 1. Jacob Gower (good bloke by the way) […]
How to remove Spyware Quake
After digging through Google, reading forums advocating all sorts of bizarre and long winded ideas, there is only one way I could remove Spyware Quake: by downloading Ewido anti-malware, software from the same people who write AVG. Effect a full scan then a memory scan as chances are there will be multiple related bugs with […]
Going down the Full Feed path.
Inspired by Darren, and also because I forgot to do it earlier, I’ve turned on the full feed here at duncanriley.com. It’s going to hurt what little traffic reads my personal rants, but to be honest….I don’t really care. As they say in the for love or money stakes, I’m blogging here because I want […]
I must be unwell…I recommended TypePad last night
I had the opportunity of speak to a local Rotary Club last night about blogging, and interesting experiment in itself given I had no laptop or audiovisual support so it was a matter of trying to explain the whole blogging thing to people who didn’t know anything about it…without pictures. Afterwards I was talking to […]
WordPress.com down
SEJ has more here yesterday. Looking like Matt and the team are still having problems: Once More We had a pretty bad hardware failure yesterday, and though it took longer than we liked everything was restored and has been running the past 6 hours or so just dandy. We did some proactive maintainence whil the […]
Whois.sc renamed Domaintools.com
My favourite domain tool online: whois.sc, have been renamed to domaintools.com with a redirect. Good on em…I think, but I already miss the old fashioned whois.sc service.
iTod…not quite there
The Times reports on the iTod, a iPod like device for toddlers. For me, it’s not quite there. First and foremost, I can’t imagine my 3 year old wearing earphones. He’ll rip them out in a second. After that, what’s the appeal? My son is obsessed with my main computer. He sneaks into my office […]
BloggerCon Australia: I’m excited!
Just read this at Scripting News. Red Barren is in charge of organising a BloggerCon in Australia. For those who were readers of The Blog Herald I’ve been trying to do this for years. I’ve got about 50 ppl in the email list who have shown interest in coming. If you haven’t previously registered interest […]
Help! Does anyone know about the TV station NOW?
Part of the package I get in the new house, which is on a new estate, is TV through underground cable. We get the local channels, Perth TV (well depending on the weather) and a couple of free to air satellite channels thrown in for good measure. They are rebroadcasting ABC2 and Bloomberg, and a […]
Podcasting, MP3 Players Stealing Radio’s Audience
Gotta love these stats. And it’s true. Aside from playing Club977 on the dedicated PVR box when I want to listen to some 80’s music, I’m listening to podcasts….well I was before the iPod got packed in a box…anyone know what box it’s in 🙂 Podcasting News: 27% of people 12-24 attribute their reduced use […]
I’m back
Greetings and salutations….or something like that. I’m back online after a nearly 2 week hiatus having laid floorboards, decking, and moved into the new castle. Of course still lots of things to go. I’m unpacked only as much as my new, gigantic office currently has in it a desk and a computer….and nothing else. Telstra […]
The Scoble Bastard Card
OMG!!!! I can’t stop laughing! and the best: