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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.
Nazi Germany: Extraterrestrials are to blame
From The Canadian: Manipulative Extraterrestrials influenced Adolf Hitler, scholars suggest. Damn those aliens 🙂
What does the Virginia Tech massacre say about South Koreans? It’s don’t write stupid blog posts
Foreign Policy has the headline: What do the Virginia Tech slayings say about South Koreans? I’ll tell you what it says: don’t write stupid blog posts. What a stupid headline. FP might conclude that there isn’t a question in relation to South Korean students, but the whole question shouldn’t have been put in the first […]
I’m all for making money, but this is just plain sick
Apparently people are trying to profit off the Virginia Tech Massacre, with Wired reporting that domain names based on the massacre are up for sale on eBay. I’m all for people making money, and domaining is a legitimate business, but this is just sick. I wonder what they would think if one of the victims […]
Beer as the root of modern society
I like this guys logic: “Beer is the basis of modern static civ?Ǭ?ilization,” began Bamforth, Anheuser-Busch Endowed Professor of Brewing Science at the University of California, Davis. “Because before beer was discovered, people used to wander around and follow goats from place to place. And then they realized that this grain [barley] could be grown […]
Buying a Television: shop around
I’ve finally, finally got around to buying a replacement for my 8 year old, 68cm Teac old fashioned CRT TV, our first major purchase after I got married…we even used AGC finance to pay for it at the time 🙂 Picked up a Sony 101cm (40in) Bravia LCD True HD 1080i model: this one I […]
New Australian Top 100 list
It’s days like this I miss owning The Blog Herald…if only so I could be higher up the list 🙂 Dipping into the Blogpond has put together a new list of Australia’ Top 100 blogs, and I’ve made in at #8, all for a site which I don’t even really try on, seriously needs some […]
Graffiti removal in Canberra, a good or bad thing?
Looks like Canberra MP Steve Pratt is in a spot of bother, having painted over an “officially commissioned” artwork that he mistook as graffiti. OK, so take aside the legalities of it all for a minute, and think about it. Personally I think Pratt did the people of Canberra a public service. OK, so I’m […]
33 people dead in US Massacre: naturally the Australian press finds an Australian angle
Maybe I’m just becoming to cynical, but lets see, 33 people are killed in a Massacre in the US, the Sydney Morning Herald leads with a story that someone from Sydney was studying at this University, who knew someone who wasn’t shot but saw other people shot and pretended to be dead. Seriously. I can’t […]
Michael Arrington, another Desktop Tower Defense addict
Arrington is hooked to. Good on him, because it’s a ripper of a game, if you haven’t played yet, click here.
Australia maintains lead in Firefox usage
Latest Firefox usage stats have Oceania, of which Australia would make up maybe 80%, as the leading region world wide for Firefox usage, at 24.8%. no break down of the figures however, so no idea what Australia alone is, but that’s still a very, very nice figure.
Looking for some Australian blogs
Now I’m hooked on Google reader, I’ve started subscribing to more and more Australian blogs…what I’d really like to have is a dedicated “Australian Blogs” category, but so far the pickings are pretty slim. I’ve got most of the 2web guys in my feeds, and others I’ve met along the way (in person), but if […]
Why some bloggers shouldn’t be electoral pundits
I literally chocked on the Coke Zero I was drinking when I read this. Don’t have the direct link, but quoting from Trevor Cook: If ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äù and it is a big if ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äù Labor were to secure the 58 per cent national two-party preferred vote suggested by the polls at the next election, my election […]
If the Kathy Sierra death threat meme was a legal case, would it be thrown out for lack of evidence?
Wired tries to do some investigative journalism into the whole Kathy Sierra OMG death threats meme, and doesn’t come up trumps. If the whole thing was a legal case, would it be thrown out for lack of evidence? It even appears that at least a good portion of the defendants in this case have now […]
In support of advertiser supported themes
Matt Mullenweg has come out against advertiser supported themes for WordPress here. As much as I’ll always have time for Matt, I don’t agree with him on this. For starters, the arguments he puts forward in terms of WordPress is free therefore themes should be free of advertiser links is spurious at best. Yes, WordPress […]
All your ads belong to us: time for Government intervention?
Steve Rubel calls it right on Google: “All your Ads belong to us“. Its been said before, but I’ll say it again: when will Governments start intervening in Google’s growth? How much of the online world will Google dominate before Government says enough is enough, this is anti-competitive, monopoly behaviour? Sure, the argument against is […]
Google buys DoubleClick for $3.1bn
$3.1bn: Google’s purchase price for Doubleclick. Struth. Web 1.0 lives again, literally, DoubleClick is a Web 1.0 company, dating from the early days of the internet. Is this a smart move for Google? if they apply the Adwords model to Doubleclick CPM banner advertising is going to get a whole lot more sexy very soon, […]
Will the CBS content be geoblocked?
CBS announces 10 content distribution partners: BBC. Will the content be geoblocked? I can’t currently view video content (show episodes, not previews) on the CBS website without spoofing my IP address or using a Proxy; will services such as Joost also block content to non-US viewers? I can only hope they don’t. And of course […]
Only in Queensland: croc not removed from park
A large Croc is stalking people in a park in Cairns according to news.com.au. Get this, for the only in Queensland file, authorities are debating whether they should remove the croc or not! Yep, apparently it’s not a given: “Queensland Park and Wildlife crocodile scientist Mark Read said yesterday his team was “assessing” the croc’s […]
Wisdump on the market
The Paul Scrivens owner Wisdump is on the market at Sitepoint. Bidding from $15k with a BIN of $30k.
Splashpress Media acquires 901am
Is there anything David Krug won’t sell? Email in my inbox this morning (my time, +8GMT) letting me know that Splashpress Media has acquired 901am. Minin Rivera, ex-Editor of The Blogging Times has taken the Editor position. Congrats to all involved. I’m starting to become convinced that I must be psychic: I was only looking […]