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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.
It’s time for all the Hicks apologists to shut the you know what up
If you believe the rabid left, David Hicks has been tortured, locked in solitary confinement for years on end….. And yet lets read the SMH coverage of Hick’s court appearance today: “Rather than being pale from long stints locked inside the maximum security prison, Hicks’s skin looked as tanned as that of his American military […]
Anthony Callea is gay, now there’s a surpise (not)
NineMSN: Anthony Callea admits he’s gay Australia’s Clay Aitken. Will the front page of The West read “Callea Gay Shock” tomorrow? unlikely, more like “Another Eagle caught taking drugs”, but expect a line in the Entertainment Section.
Al Gore be warned
Great to see one back at Gore:
Windows Live unfortunate add placements
Next to the Reuters story mentioned in my last post about the women turning up to the Madrid Training Bombing trials in a Mohamad cartoon T-Shirt:
Hero
Reuters via HotAir covering the Spanish trial of the alleged Madrid Train Bombers: A woman who lost her husband in the 2004 Madrid train bombings displayed an infamous cartoon mocking the Prophet Mohammad on her T-shirt in front of 29, mostly Muslim, suspects on trial for the attacks on Monday. The woman?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s white T-shirt showed […]
Handling Death Threats
Chris Pirillo puts some perspective on the whole Kathy Sierra death threats meme. I totally avoided the issue in my post on Scoble’s chicken reaction at 901am because it’s difficult to talk about perspective when some one is legitimately upset about what has happened (as I have no doubt that Sierra is) without sounding like […]
Dewars gets creative with online video
The Onion News Network has launched: some funny moments, but what I found even more interesting is the ad placements. Dewars Scotch Whiskey first popped up on the Web 2.0 radar as a sponsor in the last week of Ze Frank’s the show, although only with small banner ads under the videos themselves. For the […]
Memo to Dave Winer: fix feed
I’m partying like in 2003! for the second day running:
Voyeurism is a crime? look out celeb blogs
Yahoo News: Police: Shampoo camera taped roommates The guy was caught video taping female roommates via hidden camera in a shampoo bottle, and was caught after a roommate discovered the wiring from the shampoo bottle. The charge? 15 counts of voyeurism. Voyeurism is a crime in the United States? yikes, there’s a whole pile of […]
Haiku headlines from the Wall Street Journal
Ethan Smith is taking the piss, right? A new way to drive traffic perhaps?
Block Categories in Robots.txt?
Michael Gray advisers in his WP advice video: block categories in Robots.txt to help Google SERPs. Interesting. We all know duplicate content is bad in Google, but it never dawned on me to consider category pages. I’ve got some work to do in the next couple of days 🙂
Will the success of the Wii affect Harvey Norman’s Share Price
Latest Wii news: Wii is outselling PS3 2 to 1 in the US. Question for Australian readers: Harvey Norman, arguably Australia’s biggest retailer of computer + electrical goods doesn’t stock Nintendo’s Wii, not just the console but the games either. The mind boggles as to why, but knowing that the Wii is a huge success, […]
Save the Polar Bear
Want to know what’s wrong with the hard left, the environazis and animal rights activitists: they want to kill this polar bear: More at the SMH + News.com.au. Lets see, Polar Bears are facing extinction (allegedly) and yet the very same people who carry on about this want to kill the bear. Obviously drugs are […]
Australians working online, let us rejoice, we’re all about to take a paycut
SMH: Aussie dollar hits 10-year high How do I respond to this without droping the F word over and over and over again. Sure, it might make it cheaper to visit the US, but ALL of my income at the moment is in US Dollars. And lets talk rip offs, I ordered a couple of […]
Africans show how to scam Google News
I was interested when I read the headline in my Google News feed: Start Your Blog Now – B?ɬ©africa-Opinions, listed as being Central African Republic. The content extract even sounded more appealing: “You?Ǭ¥re about to discover the complete How-To guide to set up your very own Video Blog. And we also show you how you […]
Operation Floor Lift commences
Nearly 12 months ago we took possession of our new house, and I spent 2 weeks of literally back breaking work laying the floor in the new house, timber laminate was all that we could afford at the time, mind you, it was still $6500 just for the laminate. About 3 months later the floor […]
Twitter Badges
I’m not sure whether I should include this in the side bar, but I’ll try it in a post for now. follow duncanriley at http://twitter.com
Too much noise, step away from the keyboard
Michael Gray doesn’t mince his words, but he is mostly spot on, although I would add that the next Danny Sullivan is probably posting away on some unknown blog as we speak. It’s a catch 22, yes, there’s too much noise, too much junk, but you’ve got to start somewhere as well, and who am […]
So long Zefrank, and thanks for all the fish
Zefrank’s last show. Sad. Thank you Ze for entertaining us for a year.
Congrats to LifeHacker
I’d comment on this post, but unfortunately like all Gawker Media blogs you need an invite to comment and so far I’ve only got commenting rights at Valleywag (hint, hint 🙂 ). Congrats though to LifeHacker on picking up the award for best group weblog at The Bloggies. To be honest I probably only subscribed […]