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  • Playing with Flcok

    Flock imports your del.icio.us list, and syncs up your local Favorites with your del.icio.us ones. Each time you star a page as a Favorite, it is added to both your local and your del.icio.us list.

    well…above is the cut and paste I just did from flock, there is just no way of moving it down from within the blogging facility, I suppose it is a developers test after all. Anyone want the details to get their hands on a copy drop me an email.

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  • Hapiness is an ezine redescovered

    No, I’m not being paid for this, but I want to share it none the less, I’ve been looking at all sorts of money moneying things to complement the b5media blogs and what should I stumble upon: Affiliateprograms.com.

    I read this ezine for years (probably 10??) and somewhere along the way, probably when I last changed ISP email accounts I didn’t renew and then totally forgot about it. Allan Gardyne, the writer because very sick for a while and there wasn’t a lot being put out which is probably why I forgot about it but I’m happy to say Allan’s still kicking strong. Just signed up again and looking forward to reading it again.

  • Crowded House alternative? now things are getting strange

    Its the Queens Birthday long weekend here, so I’m sitting at home doing some site scripting, fixing the wifes laptop, and a few other things, and I think to myself: why not put on some music. So I fire up Winamp (the AOL Music/ Winamp music and video lists are first rate) and I’m flicking through some of the WinAmp music sites and what do I find under alternative: Crowded House. God I must be getting old if younger generations consider Crowded House alternative. I’m still loving it though, maybe if they are alternative they must be cool again. The love never died for me. Now if only Paul Hester hadn’t done himself in I could grow old and attend reunion concerts like all those other bands from the 80’s seem to be indulging in now. Sad really. One band that for me wrote music that will be timeless.

  • Jeez these things are good

    A damn fine assessment

    You are a

    Social Liberal
    (60% permissive)

    and an…

    Economic Conservative
    (81% permissive)

    You are best described as a:

    Capitalist

    Link: The Politics Test on OkCupid Free Online Dating

  • The Times

    This is nice, but I’m really going to have to watch the gramatical structure and use of English in my comments for now on if they are going to make the English press.

    Google launches blogs search engine

  • A whole lot of Katrina comments going on

    I don’t think I’ve ever got anything close to this.

    (screenshot from the Blog Herald WP interface)

  • Suddenly 30

    I turned 30 yesterday. As well as doing the usual things one does when turning 30, such as vowing to quit doing bad stuff (such as drinking and regular McOz burgers from McDonalds) as the reality that you are no longer immortal starts to set in, its a good time to reflect.

    I can remember that movie from Jennifer Gardner of “suddenly 30″…I saw it last year and I can totally relate. Sometimes I feel like I’ve blinked at where at 1 minute I was 14 now I’m 30. And shit, all the things I would have done differently. And of course I haven’t become a millionare yet so I’ve still got a lot of work to do.

    You know I was born when Gough Whitlam was Prime Minister, when Australia still had television licenses and when computers were still run with punchards. What an amazing 30 years. The kids of today have got it so easy. But then again I miss my Amstrad 6218 and writing little programs on it in Basic. I sort of miss the sound of a gigantic dot matrix printer. I miss a time when I could play a computer game for 6 hours straight and not be disturbed.

    Oh well. Only another 40-50 odd years to go. Next stop 40.

  • An apology to Jason Calacanis

    Well, I f@cked up. It wasn’t nice, a bit tired and emotional so to speak. So sorry Jason. We all make mistakes, sometimes I do tend to more than others 🙂

  • A Fresh Coat of Paint

    Yes, its not dead, but its time for a fresh coat of paint here at duncanriley.com and a bit of a fresh start after some time away from the person blog as many, many other things have gotten in the way.

    I’ve got a new project on the way shortly as well which is great stuff. No word from me yet, but hopefully sooner rather than later.

    The new look: well its the Weblog Empire plate with a new header, myself and Declan at Perth Zoo. Its funny really, v2 of duncanriley.com was the first WordPress site I ever ran with. I’d abondoned 1.0 in 2003 because like this site alot it gets forgotten from time to time. Its rebirth was an experiment in using WP 1.2 before I implemented it on the Blog Herald. It came complete with one of the very first versions of the Kurbick template (which of course is now standard on WP1.5) and the comments didn’t work…and I never got around to fixing it. Good news in the comments are working again and unlike the last experiment I’ve probably got a dozen and a half WordPress blogs under my belt now.