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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.
Australia’s Next Prime Minister Got Shitfaced And Touched Up Strippers In New York
Golden: from the same party that delivered a Prime Minister that held the world record for beer drinking comes Kevin Rudd, potentially (likely) the next Prime Minister of Australia who whilst representing Australia at the UN in 2003 allegedly got so maggoted he visited a strip club and “was warned against touching the dancers” by […]
Chartreuse is Back
The second post in roughly 24 hours from Prince Campbell. I didn’t post on the first one because I’ve see the stray post before. Chartreuse is back in the house and welcomed from me. Lets hope the issues of last year are left behind and we see some great blogging once again. Prince is a great bloke who I had […]
Are We All Living in a Computer Simulation?
Makes sense, at least at the same level that religion as a whole does. Spot question courtesy of Richard Dawkins: if there is a supernatural creator, who created the creator? 🙂
On The Pod Is Live
Introducing On The Pod: my weekly podcast on what ever takes my fancy at the time. It will be mostly tech but not strictly so, it will depend on the guest. The aim is to talk to folks who might not otherwise have a voice, people who are interesting. I’ll also be aiming to interview […]
Snow
A short note that I’ll be offline for a week, heading to Melbourne and then the snow for a break (also the golden child’s 5th birthday). Limited or no internet access at this time. Back on the 15th. I’d appreciate it if no one burgled the house in my absence 🙂
The Problem With Religion
Warning: anyone religious will find this offensive. (via Larvatusprofeo)
Making The MT Switch
I’m doing some research on switching back to MovableType, in part so I can support the MT Open Source initiative. WordPress isn’t what it use to be, both from a development and security perspective, as well as having a leadership that seems more focused on commercial interests than the open source side. If anyone has […]
Are Apple Stores a Waste of Space?
One of the last things I did in San Francisco before leaving Wednesday local time was go shopping. It’s not New York but they have a Macys so the golden child has some great polo tops for summer (how is it that I can buy 3 Polo Ralph Loren tops in the US for less than […]
San Francisco
Still recovering today from a bike ride from Fishermans Wharf in San Francisco over the Golden Gate Bridge then back again. About 15 miles, what ever that is in Km I have no idea, but the trip up the hill, wearing RM Williams Moleskins nearly killed me. Amazing the climatic differences in the Bay Area, […]
NASA: Need Another Six Asahi’s
Today’s only in America tale is bought to you by fine American heroes at NASA who drive the Space Shuttle whilst drunk. I would imagine that being blotto in Space would be fun, and imagine the toilet humor; shit flying would take on a whole new meaning. Spot question: how the fark do you random […]
Thanks To Bunbury Fire And Flood
In an age of crap customer service and people who don’t care, every now and then you encounter a company that bucks the trend. At 10am PST this morning (1am AWST) I got an email from my wife indicating that the hose behind the fridge had broken and that a good portion of the house […]
OMG Qantas To Offer Infight Internet, Power
Who ever thought that Qantas might become a world-leading airline? OK, so I’m typing this from the Qantas Domestic Terminal at Perth Airport on free WiFi, but as Engadget reports, starting next year Qantas is going to offer Wifi + Power on A380’s and refitted 747s. Touchwood it’s the entire 747 fleet given about half […]
Cockups, Corrections…and today I’m having a happy day
A fair bit of feedback on some recent posts. It reminded me that going on a puritanical save the world by highlighting wrongs binge isn’t always a good thing, people in glass houses etc… Matt Mullenweg I found an email from Matt Mullenweg in my spam box re the post on WordPress and the crackdown […]
So Australian ISP’s are going to charge of uploads, so lets talk upload speeds.
News.com.au reports that Optus is joining Telstra in adding uploads to monthly cap limits, and that others may also start counting uploads. As much as I despise the Australian ISP industry for having caps to start with, when in the US ISP’s are mostly all you can eat concerns, it does make sense that if […]
WA Web Awards Finalists Announced
See here. Finalists are the top 3 in each category. For a State that is so remote from the rest of the world there’s an impressive lineup of sites. The winners will be announced at the Duxton, Perth, August 17. And incase I’ve failed to mention it previously: I was a judge for the awards. […]
Global Warming Eat Your Heart Out
The Sky is Falling! Well it was 3 weekends ago when I took this. Not bad for a place that according to many is becoming bone dry, a place that is forever suppose to bare the burden of drought. Filmed on my Panasonic DMC FZ-50 still camera, great video quality for a still camera.
Facebook Friends
I’ve decided that the one thing I don’t like about Facebook is exerting effort for a small group of people; basically I don’t get why Facebook pages should be closed to all bar friends. It’s not that I dislike my Facebook friends; I appreciate every one of them, it’s just that in a society that […]
Anyone Getting MyBlogLog Spam?
I don’t even use MyBlogLog anymore, and yet I keep getting spam emails from MyBlogLog users; advertising networks, Nigerian style scams etc. Am I alone? I probably shouldn’t complain and just switch off the emails and resign my MyBlogLog membership properly..but I thought I’d check. Looks like Yahoo ownership still hasn’t improved things.
Matt Mullenweg: The Next (Old) Mena Trott?
All that is old is new again. I’ve been following in passing the debate over sponsored WordPress themes over the last week or so (Jacob Gower has a good summary, Matt Mullenweg’s post here) and I can’t help but shake my head. As Jacob notes the folks at WordPress and other sites are entitled to […]
Australia’s Cheapest Lego
But I should add to the post title that it took 30 minutes including me arguing with a Big-W Bunbury floor manager to get this price. 1 big box of lego, advertised (so I found out at the checkout) for $28.88 on special (I’m guessing its usually $40-$50), the floor price as the photo shows: $8.88. The […]