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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.
Travel Plans: Seattle, LA in August
I finally have some dates booked for August. I’ll be in Seattle for my first ever Gnomedex from the afternoon of August 18 through to August 25. I’ll be in Los Angeles from the afternoon of August 25 until late night August 27. Why the stopoever? Did you know Qantas allows one free stopover if […]
Identi.ca proves me wrong, and I’m happy about it
The big buzz today is around Indenti.ca, a new open source, and open platform microblogging service. That the code is open source is great in itself, but the biggest breakthrough is support for the new OpenMicroBlogging standard, which means that in theory, anyone could host the script and each service would talk to each other, […]
Guest Posting on Mashable
Just a quick shout out to Pete Cashmore with thanks for giving me the opportunity to guest post on occasion on Mashable. My first post is up today, covering Melbourne based Copper Project from Element Software. If you like, think of this as my community service (I’m not being paid). I’m passionate about Australian startups […]
Old
Not as old, or in many ways sad as the jokes at the Tivoli, but I’m still looking a little old. She who must be obeyed however is aging like a fine wine. Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch!
Do Not Use RSM Bird Cameron
A couple of years ago, when we (she who must be obeyed and I) decided that running a business through our personal taxes wasn’t a particularly effective way of dealing with tax and GST, we signed up with the local RSM Bird Cameron, or to be precise RSM Bird Cameron Bunbury (which is also the […]
When I run out of quota, what then?
Massive panic attack today, my peak usage hit 30gb for the month to June 28. Anyone reading this inside the United States will have no idea what I’m talking about but it works this way: you buy broadband on a plan in Australia, even though they claim it’s unlimited (well some companies do,they lie…by unlimited […]
Anyone have any advice on Virtual Assistants?
A bit of a bleg: I’ve been looking at hiring a virtual assistant. It’s Sunday as I write this and there are over 200 unread emails in my inbox, and that’s with over 50 rules putting most emails into other folders, of which there is thousands of unread emails.What I’m looking at is someone to […]
NAB Spams Blogs. Australian Blog Owners Need To Change Banks
I simply ask this: could I walk into a branch of the National Australia Bank and openly promote my business to those in attendance? I’d encourage EVERY Australian blogger who has an account to the National to close it. From today’s Crikey (not quite reprinted in full, but as it’s subscription only, reprinted enough so […]
Steve Gilmor Translated: The Master In Seques Returns
Steve Gilmor is a smart guy, but his inability to focus on more than one thing at a time (or more precisely to constantly seque in a post) is worthy of cult status. This post translated as best as I can make it out. Our Home Town I stumbled across Summize. I did a vanity […]
1938Media on CNet
Congrats to Loren on this deal. He’s one of the smartest, most engaging and interesting guys I’ve ever spent time with, and a pure gentleman as well. I just hope it doesn’t result in too many more fluff pieces like these 🙂
The Inquisitr By The Numbers
Today marks 1 month since The Inquisitr launched. I was going to write something over on the site about the 1 month mark but the last time I wrote a post about the site people used OutBrain to rate it poorly, besides, I don’t do self indulgent well anyway…well my personal blog aside 🙂 Having […]
Plurk Widget
Might add this to the sidebar. Let’s see if the wave of new members continues first.
GameOn, ACMI and Copyright Stupidity
We headed into town this morning to see the Australian Centre for the Moving Image’s GameOn Exhibition at Federation Square. The exhibition highlights the history of computer gaming, with displays from various eras and plenty of actual games to play. Figuring that given it’s nothing more than a big collection of arcade games I took […]
JustAddMe: Simple Sidebar List
JustAddMe offers a simple sidebar widget with links to social networks. My only gripe is that the list is a little limited, but please feel free to add me as above. Also FriendFeed here If anyone knows of a deeper alternative leave a comment. I’m lazy so I like the idea 🙂
Microsoft Mix Remixed
It’s interesting that Animoto chose to show Ballmer during the low point in the song 🙂
Twitter!
This post needs to be at the top of Techmeme. That is all.
Playing With Animato
Twitter Fail Macworld Keynote (my pics)
State of the (Australian) Union c/- Crikey
Finally a brilliant opening from Crikey to justify my (again renewed) 2 year subscription Things seem to going along nicely. In Western Australia the government has clawed its way through a crony-strewn corruption inquiry that seemed to implicate half the cabinet. Now, thus rejuvenated, it is facing down an opposition led by a creep who […]
Possible Storm in a Miniature Tea Cup
I’ve had a lot of questions following yesterdays announcement, and I’ve tried to respond to all of them where I can (the direct ones anyway, haven’t worked through the comments yet). Ed Sutherland at Problogging News wanted to interview me so I responded to his questions; there was a slightly odd angle but I never […]
So I Left TechCrunch Today
More here. Some really nice words from Michael. The thing that’s surprised me about this is it didn’t leak in a month. Probably helps that I didn’t tell all but a few people, but it’s cool knowing that in the age of uber-gossip it never leaked. The video below covers more (serious NSFW language warning…I […]