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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.
New Template
Apologies for the work in progress, trying to be modern and testing it all locally with my WAMP install didn’t work, so I’ve reverted back to the old fashioned way: installing a template by tweaking it live. It was time for a new template. The old template, live for maybe 5 months, as much as […]
The day the new games system arrived
An ode to all those blogs that ran pictures of new gaming systems arriving last year; my new system arrived in the post today: The Box OMG, the contents! Yes! It’s a 30 year old, 1977 Atari CX2600 Woody! Up close Extras! More photos, of it plugged in and working to follow 🙂 Tags: […]
Wikipedia: the hypocrisy just keeps on growing
Nik Cubrilovic has the details @ TechCrunch: short version, despite its obsession with being non-commercial, and more recently punishing good webmasters everywhere by putting nofollow tags on the end of outgoing links, it looks like Jimbo Wales isn’t nofollowing links to his for profit Wikia sites. I’m not sure what the total wash up is […]
If talk about nothing is nothing, does it become nothing itself?
Tris Hussey on some folk waking up today and discovering what I’ve been saying for 6-9 months: we’ve reached a peak in blog growth, at least in the Western World, although oddly enough they’re calling it a plateau. Yawn. Technorati now reckons there is only 15.5 million active blogs. BS. Double BS even. Technorati has […]
Twitter dumps Australia
Via Ben Barren, Twitter is no longer supporting SMS in Australia. They’ve since updated the original post to say: “To clarify, we’re getting a new access number for Australia?¢‚Ǩ‚Äùas soon as we get the number, sms service will be back in action. We’re working on it right now and it’s a high priority.” But 99 […]
Universal Key
In the cool I want category, the Keyport, via NotCot: “KeyPort – an all in one key fob?¢‚Ǩ¬¶ just get specialized blanks cut to match your car, house, boat, locker, etc keys and the slot right in. In the press kit it says that it is ?¢‚Ǩ?ìcreated to complement your personal style and organize those […]
Starting the guilt complex: in The Age
The irony of this blog remains every day that it was only ever an after thought to my main projects, The Blog Herald, then Weblog Empire, the other blog network, and probably soon the next big thing or two, and yet somehow appearing in Top lists sort of creates this guilt that personally I should […]
Top 100 Australian Blogs: feeds via OPML update
A quick update on the original list which can still be downloaded by clicking here. Meg has run an update to the list + I’ve now got a feed for MadBull’s Annoyances. New blogs include: http://infosthetics.com/ http://www.skeptics.com.au/ http://andrewlanderyou.blogspot.com/ http://www.business2.com.au/ http://www.thinkprospect.com.au/blog/ http://nickcowie.com http://www.cantcoachthat.com/ http://the-riotact.com http://altnews.com.au/drop/ I’ve updated the original list to include all these blogs, so […]
New Crowded House record out July 2
From the official Crowded House email list: On 2nd July Crowded House release ‘Time On Earth’, their first studio album since 1993, with a line-up featuring founder members Neil Finn and Nick Seymour, former member Mark Hart and new drummer Matt Sherrod ‘Time On Earth’ tracklisting: 1. Nobody Wants To 2. Don’t Stop Now 3. […]
Japanese confuse sheep for poodles
What the? From news.com.au: THOUSANDS of Japanese have been swindled in a scam in which they were sold Australian and British sheep and told they were poodles… The scam was uncovered when Japanese film star Maiko Kawamaki went on a talk-show and wondered why her new pet would not bark or eat dog food. She […]
The Top 100 Australian Blogs: feeds via OPML
Following on from Meg’s great Top 100 Australian Blogs list, my quest to become the Dave Winer of Australian blogging continues, I’m occasionally grumpy, I’m getting older by the day, I haven’t got the beard yet…I guess I can work on it….but on a more serious note, let me present The Top 100 Australian Blogs: […]
Smage downsizing: following US trend
Iconic Australian newspapers the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age (The Smage collectively) are downsizing, not only jobs but print size as well, shriking to the tall sheet size I blogged about noticing in North America last November. It’s been 10 years since I read a print version on the SMH regularly, and I remember […]
US online gambling ban to be overturned?
Good news from el Reg: “U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank’s press office has confirmed that Thursday at 10am Frank will introduce legislation to repeal the controversial Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA)” Now if only we could someone in Australia to overturn our ridiculous laws 🙂
The Simpsons meets Google
Compliments of Search Engine Land, The Simpsons meet Google: Full clip as follows:
Nifty Tip: FF search in a new tab
Thanks to Lifehacker (once again) for a very handy tip. If you’re like me, you use the search box in FireFox regularly, and in doing so I usually open a new tab for the results, this hack sets search results to automatically open in a new tab: Type about:config into the address bar, and then […]
OMG, the broke Fark, those….
Fark has a new design. It isn’t pretty, but probably worse still is the loading times, it’s beyond slow to buggery. What in the world were they thinking? Took me over a minute to get to the bottom of the page to leave a comment, and longer again to actually make the comment, and this […]
Where’s Krug?
Thought I might open this one up, given I’m not getting responses to my emails, and I’m hearing all sorts of interesting rumours: where is David Krug? he’s literally MIA? anyone have any ideas? health or something else?
Top 10 George W Bush moments
Worth a laugh:
Lest We Forget, Anzac Day 2007
Something a little more upbeat this year, some Banjo Patterson: We’re All Australians Now; Australia takes her pen in hand, To write a line to you, To let you fellows understand, How proud we are of you. From shearing shed and cattle run, From Broome to Hobsons Bay, Each native-born Australian son, Stands straighter up […]
The Big Brother lie
Just watching Big Brother now (Monday night: WIN WA is actually showing it this year, so I don’t have to pray for TEN coverage from Perth). Gretel Killeen has at least 3 times referred to the entry of the housemates as being “last night” or “24 hours later” in referral to the 2 about to […]