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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.
Ning has the coolest downtime pic
Michael Arrington at TechCrunch posts about changes to Ning. I thought I’d drop by and take a look, found this shot. Way cool, and cute as well, although what does it say about Mac users? 🙂
Court ruling reaffirms immunity of site owners from legal action over comments
Good news for US based bloggers and owners of forums, guestbooks or any other type of site that allows visitors to make comments; a Federal Court ruling in the case of Universal Communication Systems v. Lycos, a case where Universal Communications systems sued Lycos for defamatory statements made on a message board (I presume the […]
The Nanny State Strikes Again
Will it ever end. Probably not. The Hyundai Commercial with the driving baby has been banned in Australia according to the SMH: The Advertising Standards Board ordered Hyundai to pull the advertisement for its Santa Fe model on Tuesday after it ruled that it depicted under-age driving and promoted unlawful behaviour. It also ruled that […]
Don’t worry about the noise, what if they crash?
According to the SMH, Sydney residents are upset by counter-terrorism training exercises being undertaken around the Sydney CBD by Army Black Hawks…due to the noise of the helicopters. Given the safety record of these birds, if I was a resident I’d be far more concerned about the odds of them crashing and killing people on […]
I make my debut in the NSW Election Campaign
I accidently stumbled onto NSW Premier Morris Iemma’s faux-blog today at News.com.au, and read a whole pile of irrelevant rubbish about Nick Grenier helping the Debham campaign (Greiner was a pretty good Premier but as a former Liberal Party Member I always saw Fahey as the pathetic disaster in Macquarie Street, but that’s another story)…anyhow […]
A World Without America
For all the US bashing in the world, this video makes a very, very good point about the positives the United States has bought to the table. (via Hot Air)
The Simpsons Movie
Its been going 18 years…I’m getting old! Trailer for the Simpsons Movie below, enjoy. Tags: Simpsons, Simpsons Movie
Applications open for inclusion in my Bluedot feed
I’ve discovered today, much to my own satisfaction, that at least one person reads my Bluedot feed. It’s not by any stretch of the imagination a Robert Scoble style link blog, but having said that it does probably share a few attributes. It’s an eclectic mix of my daily reading, sometimes a couple of links, […]
New Australian blog network launched
Phil Sim has the details. I wish them luck, particularly with Gizmodo Australia, but I ask this simple question: WTF do mainstream media folk know about blogging? I mean the best they can come up with in terms of how the new company “Allure” will operate is that they are ripping Nick Dentons model from […]
I’m not suppose to blog this
Geek Entertainment TV: Wii Fight. If you watch the intro, you’ll understand the title of this post 🙂 On Wii’s though, my 4 year old takes me to points in Wii Boxing, and he kicks my backside in bowling, he even bowled a 180 the other day! Time to start working out I guess 🙂
The sound of email silence.
One problem solved. As I mentioned in (possibly my last) weekly column at The Blogging Times this week, I’ve had to spend money on infrastructure, another box (dedicated hosting box) to be precise, making my sum total of boxes to 3. The problem I had was the new box wasn’t provisioned until yesterday (Tuesday) lunchtime, […]
Earth to John Howard: shut the f*ck up
I’m no Howard hater, I was a long term member of the Liberal Party (until 2005), I wept when Howard was elected in 1996 (mind you, it could have been the beer, and the fact I hadn’t slept for 3 days prior), I’ve worked on marginal and non-marginal Federal Campaigns since, twice as a staffer, […]
Sign of the times: New game to be designed for Wii, but not the Xbox 360 or PS3
Definite sign of the times: Rockstars next release, Manhunt 2 is being developed for the Playstation 2, PlayStation Portable and….the Wii, but not the XBox 360 nor the PlayStation 3. I keep reading reports of people trading PS3’s for the Wii, and of the massive backlog of orders in the US and Europe for the […]
I hate Lifehacker
It’s official. As of this morning I’ve decided I hate Gawker Media’s Lifehacker. Why? because it’s so infuriatingly useful. Nearly every single day I find something interesting to download, really really good stuff as well. I’ve already got 3 columns of programs in All Programs, I don’t want a 4th column. Today’s key download: RocketDock. […]
Want Universal Health Cover? You need DIC
TechCrunch covers Change.org, a not for profit social networking site that links donors and charities. Line 4 of the TechCrunch shot of the Tag Cloud is of particular interest for me: “Universal Health Care”. ROFL. If you need Universal Health Care, may I humbly suggest you contact DIC, the Australian Department of Immigration and Citizenship […]
Kodak to break the Ink Cartel
Great news for owners of Inkjet Printers, according to USA Today Kodak is about to launch a new line of Inkjet printers with CHEAP INK! To quote: For years, companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Epson, Canon and Lexmark have sold inexpensive consumer-grade inkjet printers ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äù many are about $100 or so ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äù and made up the […]
Is Day Job Killer using fake product endorsements?
The latest and greatest ebook out there (again): Day Job Killer (not an affiliate link). I must have half a dozen emails from marketing gurus in my inbox all pushing the program. I must admit, I’m tempted to buy it, Affiliate Project X wasn’t a bad read, but there’s one big question though, is the […]
Do you Hate Macs?
Tired of Mac users telling you how wonderful their Mac is? We’ll have I got the antedote for you, compliments of a wonderfully earnest peice of journalism by Charlie Brooker at The Guardian: I hate Macs. I have always hated Macs. I hate people who use Macs. I even hate people who don’t use Macs […]
David Hicks: enough is enough
More David Hicks BS: this time an advertising campaign trying to “humanise” him. Enough is enough. Hang him, shoot him, do something to him please Mr Bush, just something to shut the nutters up. Am I really alone in being sick and tired of hearing the whinging day in, day out about Hicks being in […]
It’s like a Blog Herald reunion..sort of…
New gig, and I’m joining the team with Matt Craven, who took over at The Blog Herald after I sold it (the site being onsold since). Matt Craven is the sort of guy I wish I had writing for me when I did own the Herald (but could never afford to put anyone on), so […]