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Yes, after a heavy fortnight dedicated to the Australian election I’m back on deck and blogging!
Having not been able to update the Blog Herald in 10 days results in a Google Page Rank slip from 7 to 6 which is a pain, but I’ll make up for it in the coming weeks.

For those that haven’t notice my new election cycle resolution is that I will push Firefox where ever I can. Its a great browser, and the only time I now resort to IE is when updating the Blog Herald as MT 2.6.. will not display properly in it: I can only hope that the team at SixApart have made MT 3 more standards compliant.

fascinating,
http://www.2020hindsight.org/2004/09/29/ansari-x-prize-x1/

you know the problem with the 1960’s futurist’s visions of space travel at the turn of the century is that they wrongly took a socialist view that Government would successfully fund space travel. Skip foward 40 years and no trips to Mars but for the first time in a long time we are moving forward in space travel and it is private enterprise that is funding it. Like all good inventions its the endevour of the human spirit free from Government interference and assisted by private enterprise that achieves the most in the long term.

I’ve been a big fan of moblogging for some time and have recently been fortunate to obtain a phone from work with camera, however there is no ability to add a data ability to the service, none the less photos will be here soon, abeit delayed by a data cable I’m yet to purchase. No doubt the pics will be boring to most, but the lack of pics from South Western Australia on the net says to me “fill the niche”, then again maybe I’m a worry

Although I haven’t had the opportunity to blog as much lately as I’d like, the ability to work from my lounge room, in front on my TV through Wi-Fi and laptop has radically changed the way I work at home. From hours in my office I’ve now been liberated from the desktop to the laziness of the 3 seater lounge! The net effect is hours more of the web, although at this stage not more time blogging due to work constraints….. may be after the election, either way I highly recommend the experience that Wireless Internet provides, now if only Australia would embrace free WiFi internet access like the US has…I look on with envy when I read Dave Winer whinge about visiting the rare town without it, and others who can sit outside a public library and surf the net for free when the nearest WiFi hotspot is 80km south of 180km north from here, and then only if you’re willing to pay the ridiculous amount of AUD$11 per hour!!!!

Yahoo> A large explosion occurred in the northern part of North Korea (news – web sites), sending a plume of smoke more than two miles wide into the air on an important anniversary of the communist regime, a South Korean news agency reported Sunday. ..Seoul as raising the possibility of an accident or a nuclear test.

I can’t wait, although it will probably take Telstra another 50 years…..

Reuters: His 10-megabit-per-second service from telecommunications company Bredbandsbolaget is up to 20 times faster than conventional cable modems, enabling a user to download a two-hour movie in a matter of minutes rather than hours

Ahhh!!!! Looks like the D-Link DSL-300 has packed it up: no ethernet connection working: my ISP iinet (despite providing it) said its not their problem and the manufacturer. If the Blog Herald is a little quiet the next few days you’ll know why: 56k connection through the work laptop, a bit like 1998 revisted.

Reports that Google have banned an anti gay marriage advertisement on Adsense for this site from a Christian group on the bizarre grounds that it promotes hate. Bizarre you may well ask? or am I defending their view point?
I?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢m not arguing one way or another on the content but Google search is a service which provides links to anti-semetic websites when you type in the word “jew”. The core issues is that you defend freedom of speech, or you don’t, but when you say you don’t allow “hate” sites, don’t allow them across the board. It is unjust that Google now plays god in deciding that one is somehow worse than the other, even more so given Googles previous howls of freedom of speech.
Holes are appearing in the once mighty Google facade everyday, and it runs the risk of becoming a victim of its own phenomenal growth. Bill Gates must be rubbing his hands with glee.

I’m on mixed thoughts about this one. Punctuation has its place but its far easier not to use it. Does dropping the capital I from reference of the Internet denigate its purpose as a description of something of value?

Wired> Effective with this sentence, Wired News will no longer capitalize the “I” in internet. At the same time, Web becomes web and Net becomes net. Why? The simple answer is because there is no earthly reason to capitalize any of these words. Actually, there never was.