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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.
Australian Tsunami Crisis?
Tsunami Warnings for the entirity of the East Coast. Struth. Probably will be nothing more than a slight tidal surge (20-30cm), but reports coming in are saying people in Cairns are heading to high ground. More soon…possibly.
April fools day moved to March 31: Arrington
TechCrunch’s Mike Arrington today announced that April Fools Day was now moving to March 31. Arrington said in the statement that thousands of years of tradition meant nothing to him, because TechCrunch has a larger combined viewing audience than all the traditionalists in the world combined. “April 1 has never been a good date in […]
Open Source in Trouble?
If this is what Open Source can do, then maybe I need to drop Firefox for IE 🙂 Sort of reminds you of the episode of the Simpsons wher Homer builds a car, doesn’t it 🙂
Ian Thorpe a drug cheat?
SMH: “Thorpe’s drug test ‘positive’“ This one will be interesting. Thorpe is an Australian Hero and now it looks like he was taking persian rugs…the irony of it all.
Gun Crazy
Video over on Chris Pirillo’s blog. Sickening. Totally sickening. I’m hesitant to start another flame war on guns, but I’ll repeat what I’ve said previously, and note that this is coming from someone who’s politics has always been slightly right of centre, and in a classical sense closest to libertarian: US gun policy is crazy. […]
Why are TXT messages so expensive
Consumerist does the math on TXT messaging, and finds there is a 7314% markup in the US. Given Telstra/ Optus often charge 25c (AUD), sometimes more depending on the plan, the markup in Australia is even worse again. Of course a lot of it is due to the thieving all three major carriers partake in […]
US Spelling is a pain
Posted at 901am today on Bush quoting bloggers. Headline “President quotes bloggers in Iraq defense”, but is it right? In normal (ie not US) English the last word would be defence, and that’s how I originally wrote the post until the “I have to convert this to US English because of the site” part of […]
Is Dave Winer search engine spamming?
This post at Scripting.com Notice the link in the 4th paragraph for Russo & Hale. Not having a go at Dave on this, I’d be doing the same thing in his situation, but it’s interesting to see the godfather of blogging undertaking SEO on posts to hijack Google in terms of his enemies business name. […]
My AuctionAds gripe
I wrote a couple of weeks back that I was going to give Jeremy Schoemaker’s AuctionAds a spin, it certainly looked promising. Now admittedly I haven’t rolled it out beyond one small site because of this: The thing is, because AuctionAds isn’t contextual it’s near on hopeless unless you’ve got a very, very targeted niche […]
Bloggers make JibJab
Lastest clip from JibJab, Chris Pirillo, Michael Arrington and Robert Scoble can spot Kabul on a map….well I guess two out of three isn’t bad 🙂 (via Steve Rubel)
How to get listed on TechCrunch for $20
Amazing. Simply Amazing. TechCrunch reviews Popuri, a site that provides a list of data like backlinks in Google, Yahoo and others. LifeHacker then reviews the same site. Here’s the thing, there is NOTHING special about Popuri at all, accept that they’ve given the site a trendy sounding Web 2.0 URL and a lite lick of […]
It’s time for all the Hicks apologists to shut the you know what up
If you believe the rabid left, David Hicks has been tortured, locked in solitary confinement for years on end….. And yet lets read the SMH coverage of Hick’s court appearance today: “Rather than being pale from long stints locked inside the maximum security prison, Hicks’s skin looked as tanned as that of his American military […]
Anthony Callea is gay, now there’s a surpise (not)
NineMSN: Anthony Callea admits he’s gay Australia’s Clay Aitken. Will the front page of The West read “Callea Gay Shock” tomorrow? unlikely, more like “Another Eagle caught taking drugs”, but expect a line in the Entertainment Section.
Al Gore be warned
Great to see one back at Gore:
Windows Live unfortunate add placements
Next to the Reuters story mentioned in my last post about the women turning up to the Madrid Training Bombing trials in a Mohamad cartoon T-Shirt:
Hero
Reuters via HotAir covering the Spanish trial of the alleged Madrid Train Bombers: A woman who lost her husband in the 2004 Madrid train bombings displayed an infamous cartoon mocking the Prophet Mohammad on her T-shirt in front of 29, mostly Muslim, suspects on trial for the attacks on Monday. The woman?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s white T-shirt showed […]
Handling Death Threats
Chris Pirillo puts some perspective on the whole Kathy Sierra death threats meme. I totally avoided the issue in my post on Scoble’s chicken reaction at 901am because it’s difficult to talk about perspective when some one is legitimately upset about what has happened (as I have no doubt that Sierra is) without sounding like […]
Dewars gets creative with online video
The Onion News Network has launched: some funny moments, but what I found even more interesting is the ad placements. Dewars Scotch Whiskey first popped up on the Web 2.0 radar as a sponsor in the last week of Ze Frank’s the show, although only with small banner ads under the videos themselves. For the […]
Memo to Dave Winer: fix feed
I’m partying like in 2003! for the second day running:
Voyeurism is a crime? look out celeb blogs
Yahoo News: Police: Shampoo camera taped roommates The guy was caught video taping female roommates via hidden camera in a shampoo bottle, and was caught after a roommate discovered the wiring from the shampoo bottle. The charge? 15 counts of voyeurism. Voyeurism is a crime in the United States? yikes, there’s a whole pile of […]