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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.
Grizzle: feeds that fully refresh
I should have posted this on The Blog Herald when I still had her. Things that annoy me: Feeds that fully reload in Bloglines so you get like the last 20 posts over the week or similar instead of just the ones you’ve already read. Of course, if you’re doing server or upgrade work this […]
Can’t touch this blog!
MC Hammer has a blog. My,my,my,my 🙂
Blogmedia acquires The Blog Herald
I’m still under contract not to say (I think) but given it’s public here it is.
Feedburner sucks!
God, I’m running the sucks theme here now 🙂 So here’s my sucks for the day: Feedburner. I number of blogs and bloggers I read use this service (I won’t name names though, but you know who you are) and they’ve nearly all been uncontactable/ not updating in Bloglines for a week. I’ve corresponded with […]
Commerce on Google Base Coming Soon
Threadwatch gets it totally right: it’s totally over when Google brings ecommerce to Google Base. Combine this with the much waited for Google Payments system, and if I owned eBay shares I’d be doing certain things in my pants very soon 🙂
Good Karma, Bad Karma
What a fun 48 hours. I recieved final payment for The Blog Herald and the transfer went across ok, and then Dreamhost, who hosts my personal sites (including Weblog Empire) boots me onto an “Evaluation server” and all the sites go down for 24 hours…..I suppose the karma is balanced now.
Under 21 stars getting pissed: another stupid American law
Dafamer reports on young Hollywood stars getting pissed. Of course the proper question would be: why in the world does the US have such a stupid minimun drink age of 21? I mean they are quite happy to blow up kiddies in Iraq and send soldiers younger than this to war…which is all ok as […]
Mystery blob eating LA
Am I the only one thinking Volcano here?
Lego Brokeback Mountain
Some people have far to much time on their hands.
The gods must be crazy
Yesterday the official temperature in Bunbury was 40 (celcius) and I’d think it was proably a couple of degrees hotter where I am. Ironically one of the main stories in the local rag that day: The Summer of 69, which detailed that Bunbury had experienced its second coldest summer on record (69 was apparently colder). […]
Toyota takes the lead
From Wired: GM, Ford, and DaimlerChrysler will soon by tiny specs in Toyota’s rear view mirror, according to CNN Money. Toyota’s 2005 profit of $11.4 billion was greater than the combined earnings of the other 12 auto companies in the world. This year they will become king of the road, taking the mantle from GM […]
The Falkirk Wheel
As much as I hate the way Wikipedia is administered by self interested Nazi’s, I always seem to get distracted by the main page links when I’m looking for something. The Falkirk Wheel is just simply amazing. 21st design applied to a 17th-18th century transport system. Of course we don’t have canals here in Australia…except […]
Ex-POWs Meet Secret Breakfast Benefactor
This will bring a tear to your eye…and only goes to prove that giving isn’t about receiving kudos. Ex-POWs Meet Secret Breakfast Benefactor For 30 years, a group of former World War II prisoners of war has been getting together for a monthly breakfast at Bunny’s Restaurant. And for the last few years, someone has […]
Slow news day at the Herald
A one week old story from The Register about a flying car in Perth spotted via Google Earth makes the front page of the Sydney Morning Herald…must be a slow news day 🙂
OK, enough summer now!
Everyone I now in the local community spent December whinging about how Summer hadn’t come yet and how cold it was, and apparently the South West of Western Australia experienced its Coldest December on record, but now its January and its 33 deg celcius in my office and the humidity is exceptionally high for this […]
Summer at Last
Just checked the weather box on my personal blog and it reads 31.8 degrees at 3pm! at long last summer has arrived after the South West of WA experienced is coldest ever December on record. Whilst the rest of Australia seemingly boils, we’ve continued to freeze, even Hobart (Tasmania) was warmer in December. Its like […]
Why is it so
My first serious question of the new year: Why is Australia’s Funniest Home Video show called Australia’s Funniest Home Video Show when nearly all the clips are American? I mean, their theme song goes “Australia, Australia, this is you…”. If this is us does that mean we are American? Perhaps the show should be called […]