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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.
Apparently Chairs Cause Fatness
I use to like Troy Buswell, but it was when I realised that he cared only about himself that I lost faith. Not saying I’m exactly skinny myself (but I’m only 10kg off my ideal weight now.) That said, the issue was with the ex: maybe I should forgive now, and accept he had good […]
Balance on the Indian Attack Stories
I may not agree with every conclusion, but some decent balance and some reasonably fair perspective. Warranted in the broader picture of the debate. It’s simple: India doesn’t want to see its citizens harmed In a few elegant words, Tharoor cut to the heart of the issue and it is worth quoting him in full: […]
Wait, so not all Americans know about the Fried Chicken thing?
And here I was thinking that it was just us dumb Australians…. 🙂 Daily Camera: Denver schools’ menu for Martin Luther King birthday hard for some to digest Denver Public Schools apologized Tuesday for what it called a “well-intentioned but highly insensitive” attempt to honor the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Friday’s DPS lunch menu, […]
Just How Racist Are The Young Turks?
Follow up to the last post, I made this little video:
Want to see real racism?
This is from a show in the United States called “The Young Turks” on the so called “racist” KFC ad. According to the guy in the show, the ad is “stereotypical…pushing a stereotype. When I’m thinking race or something…they’re trying to make the target look bad or worse than they actually are…which it does. With […]
Is It Still Racist When Indians Kill Indians
No, that’s the caste system isn’t it? Still, given what happened in Australia during the Schapelle Corby arrest and trial, we’re not exactly innocent when it comes to xenophobia. The Advertiser: Two detained at airport over Singh murder POLICE are refusing to reveal the identities of a man and a woman intercepted at Sydney Airport […]
Stilgherrian Is Right
Sea Shepherd? Gave my opinion 2 years ago Sea Shepherd of course claim it was a deliberate attack. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn’t. Thing is though, guys, if you don’t want to be involved in a collision at sea, don’t fucking well deliberately put your boat so close to another.
Back In The Top 10 Australian Startups
When Kim Heras moved the Top 100 Australian startups to Younoodle, we completely disappeared, not helped by the fact that we didn’t even have a Younoodle listing. New year and finally we’re back in the Top 10.
Finally Fixed The Site
Completely reinstalled WordPress here. The DB was the most fun: a full import borked the site again, so when with cutting and pasting the key tables from the SQL db into phpmyadmin, one at a time to check if they’d break the site or not. comments seem to be working, although the template needs some […]