/ blog · archive
Archive
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.
I’m not suppose to blog this
Geek Entertainment TV: Wii Fight. If you watch the intro, you’ll understand the title of this post 🙂 On Wii’s though, my 4 year old takes me to points in Wii Boxing, and he kicks my backside in bowling, he even bowled a 180 the other day! Time to start working out I guess 🙂
The sound of email silence.
One problem solved. As I mentioned in (possibly my last) weekly column at The Blogging Times this week, I’ve had to spend money on infrastructure, another box (dedicated hosting box) to be precise, making my sum total of boxes to 3. The problem I had was the new box wasn’t provisioned until yesterday (Tuesday) lunchtime, […]
Earth to John Howard: shut the f*ck up
I’m no Howard hater, I was a long term member of the Liberal Party (until 2005), I wept when Howard was elected in 1996 (mind you, it could have been the beer, and the fact I hadn’t slept for 3 days prior), I’ve worked on marginal and non-marginal Federal Campaigns since, twice as a staffer, […]
Sign of the times: New game to be designed for Wii, but not the Xbox 360 or PS3
Definite sign of the times: Rockstars next release, Manhunt 2 is being developed for the Playstation 2, PlayStation Portable and….the Wii, but not the XBox 360 nor the PlayStation 3. I keep reading reports of people trading PS3’s for the Wii, and of the massive backlog of orders in the US and Europe for the […]
I hate Lifehacker
It’s official. As of this morning I’ve decided I hate Gawker Media’s Lifehacker. Why? because it’s so infuriatingly useful. Nearly every single day I find something interesting to download, really really good stuff as well. I’ve already got 3 columns of programs in All Programs, I don’t want a 4th column. Today’s key download: RocketDock. […]
Want Universal Health Cover? You need DIC
TechCrunch covers Change.org, a not for profit social networking site that links donors and charities. Line 4 of the TechCrunch shot of the Tag Cloud is of particular interest for me: “Universal Health Care”. ROFL. If you need Universal Health Care, may I humbly suggest you contact DIC, the Australian Department of Immigration and Citizenship […]
Kodak to break the Ink Cartel
Great news for owners of Inkjet Printers, according to USA Today Kodak is about to launch a new line of Inkjet printers with CHEAP INK! To quote: For years, companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Epson, Canon and Lexmark have sold inexpensive consumer-grade inkjet printers ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äù many are about $100 or so ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äù and made up the […]
Is Day Job Killer using fake product endorsements?
The latest and greatest ebook out there (again): Day Job Killer (not an affiliate link). I must have half a dozen emails from marketing gurus in my inbox all pushing the program. I must admit, I’m tempted to buy it, Affiliate Project X wasn’t a bad read, but there’s one big question though, is the […]
Do you Hate Macs?
Tired of Mac users telling you how wonderful their Mac is? We’ll have I got the antedote for you, compliments of a wonderfully earnest peice of journalism by Charlie Brooker at The Guardian: I hate Macs. I have always hated Macs. I hate people who use Macs. I even hate people who don’t use Macs […]
David Hicks: enough is enough
More David Hicks BS: this time an advertising campaign trying to “humanise” him. Enough is enough. Hang him, shoot him, do something to him please Mr Bush, just something to shut the nutters up. Am I really alone in being sick and tired of hearing the whinging day in, day out about Hicks being in […]
It’s like a Blog Herald reunion..sort of…
New gig, and I’m joining the team with Matt Craven, who took over at The Blog Herald after I sold it (the site being onsold since). Matt Craven is the sort of guy I wish I had writing for me when I did own the Herald (but could never afford to put anyone on), so […]
Google Video now working in Bloglines
Word on the street during the week was that Google Reader now supports inline video. I don’t use Google Reader, although with the amount of buzz around for the service I might have to take a second look, but the good thing for all you Bloglines fans out there: it would appear that Google Video […]
Australian Blogging Conference delayed
I was literally going to try and book for frequent flyer flgihts today, then got this from Peter Black: Unfortunately due to a last minute and unexpected problem with sponsorship, QUT has decided to postpone the Australian Blogging Conference until later in the year. We were faced with the option of running the conference with […]
Fun with Yahoo!
I’m not to blame, but it does seem that others are having fun with Yahoo’s new Wii splog portal (from the front page):
Oh god! MyBlogLog is forcing Yahoo! ID’s as well.
Just when I was forced to have a Yahoo! ID with Flickr, MyBlogLog, newly acquired by Yahoo! is following suite. GRRRRRRRRRRR x 999999999. (via 901am) Tags: Yahoo, MyBlogLog, 901am
Congrats to Shiny Media
Andy Merrett at The Blog Herald covers a $4.5 million investment into UK blogging network Shiny Media. Insert the old fogy sound here as I remember when Shiny Media consisted of all but one blog, but a good one at that. Congrats to the team at Shiny, $4.5m @ 50% sounds like a reasonable, fair […]
Vista dreaming
Despite all the hype about Windows Vista I’ve not felt the need to run off to the shops and buy a copy, after all, what exactly does it do that XP doesn’t do? having said that however, I love to play with new things, so I remembered today that the Acer Laptop I bought in […]
You know you’re getting old when…
It’s the golden child’s first day at school. It only seems like yesterday they were chopping him out of she who must be obeyed’s stomach 🙂 Happy first day at school son, and I know you’ll look forward to reading this post at Archive.org in 2020. We’re proud of you, just a shame about the […]
WTF? Technorati lauches a Digg clone.
Steve Rubel reports on Technorati launching a Digg clone named WTF. Yep, WTF but meaning where’s the fire…I kid you not. Why didn’t they just call it Where’s the Cheese? or is that phrase a TM of the Australian Dairy Corporation?. Peter Russell Clarke could be the head spokesman and all. Talking of WTF, Peter […]
An ascendant Pinoy blogosphere
It’s all happening in the Philippines. Despite the occasional bad strange odd different apple, the Pinoy blogosphere is rocking, and it’s not just the Philippines greatest export to the world BryanBoy, it’s The Bayanihan Blog Network. OK, so the first word is a definite tongue twister, but take a look anyway!