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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.
Content isn’t dead
Chartreuse today suggests that content is dead, but it isn’t because as much as I fear that the rise of the totalitarian nanny state is upon us (socialism meets 1984) content still doesn’t come in one flavour, it comes in many different flavours, and like Ice Cream we all have different favourites, and hence we […]
Tornado Watch
I think it’s probably raining to much for there to be a tornado today, but I’ve got the camera ready just in case…and certainly on my drive into town today the Preston and Collie Rivers looked like they were pretty close to bursting…so maybe I can get some flooding shots 🙂 SEVERE WEATHER WARNING For […]
72 million blogs on Windows Live Spaces, do you believe me now about Technorati?
Robert Scoble reports that there are now 72 million blogs on Windows Live Spaces alone, this when Technorati tracks 50 (odd) million all up across the globe…and people don’t believe me when I say there is 300 million odd blogs out there on the internet because they tell me Technorati says there are 50 million…. […]
Web 2.0: it’s not a bubble, it’s the start of a storm
Australians are often fond of the saying that we call a spade a (insert strong expletive here) shovel. Web 2.0 is, according to many, entering a bubble. And yet bubbles are these nice rounded things that kids make from plastic $2 made in China kits which eventually burst. Sure, Web 1.0 was a bubble, it […]
Machine translation is go!
I’ll have to watch my bonzer bobs, my buggers and my howyagoinmates, but I’ve added this translation plugin to the sidebar….after a little feedback from an internal b5 test I struck Chinese and Korean off the list, and I’ll probably end up taking Japanese off as well, but we’ll see how it goes, or if […]
Anyone had any experience with Engin or similar Australian VOIP companies?
I looked at my Telstra bill during the week, and I’m seriously considering dumping my Telstra landline…nearly half the bill is made up of Telstra charges: I pay extra to have my number not listed, I pay extra to have call number display…it’s stupid and given I’ve got a 2mb Cable connection I don’t need […]
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Calling Mr Al Kyder
I love the Chaser, again another story via the SMH: ABC TV’s Chaser boys have struck again…The pranksters pulled off a stunt at Sydney Airport on Wednesday which saw Virgin Blue staff make a “final boarding call” announcement for five late passengers, including one which sounded suspiciously like Mr Al Qaeda and another which sounded […]
Struth: Coles Myer to be bought by Americans!
Via the SMH COLES MYER is likely to fall into foreign hands in what is shaping as the biggest corporate takeover in Australian history, valued at more than $16 billion. A group of US financiers, believed to be led by the private investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co, is understood to be behind an […]
Web 2.0 remixed…thank god for Robin Good
Fess up time for me, I didn’t sit through the whole Techcrunch Web 2.0 video…it was to long, I lost interest about a quarter of the way in…but Robin Good has stayed loyal to his name and done something good: the Web 2.0 video remix, a total of 3 minutes, which cuts out some of […]
And you thought you lived in a bad street
From the SMH: Maori living in a number of New Zealand towns have – not to put too fine a point on it – been living in Shit Street for years. Their road name signs actually read Kaka Street and, having been erected by predominantly English-speaking local councils, are supposed to be the name of […]
Something not right about this line
From Techcrunch: “it?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢s so ajax intensive that it?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢s really smooth to use” Is it me of does this sound like a pitch for drugs or similar? 🙂
Are you cynical?
You Are 52% Cynical Yes, you are cynical, but more than anything, you’re a realist. You see what’s screwed up in the world, but you also take time to remember what’s right. How Cynical Are You?
Robert Scoble 2.0
Robert notes over on his blog today “I think Om and Mike are telling all their fans ?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?Ö‚Äúemail Scoble, it?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢ll keep him uninteresting”. I’m guessing it’s a reference to his more recent posts to Scobleizer…since he’s left Microsoft the tone has changed alot, it’s more personal, more insightful, sure, perhaps less controversial, but for my […]
Macs are a crashing all over the place!
What would you rather, a Windows PC that runs for weeks without crashing (like mine do, indeed I’ve not rebooted my XP MCE PVR box for about 6 weeks now, and that then was only because of a critical systems update), or a Mac that crashes every other day? Lets ask some high profile Mac […]
Another reason why I’ll be buying a Wii
From Slashdot: [in] an interview in USA Today with Nintendo’s Reggie Fils-Aime confirms that the Wii’s online component will be free to play. The outspoken Nintendo advocate says “We will offer online-enabled games that the consumers will not have to pay a subscription fee for. They’ll be able to enjoy that right out of the […]
AOL Acquires GameDaily
Looks like another nice acquisition for AOL, with news that they’ve acquired Games Daily: AOL LLC announced today that it has acquired GameDaily ( http://www.gamedaily.com ), one of the Internet’s leading independent video game publications, from Gigex, Inc. AOL’s agreement with Gigex closed on August 10th, 2006. Financial terms were not disclosed. Founded in 1995 […]
Handball for adults?
Looks like a kiddies game called “kickball” which is big in the school yards of America (never heard of it myself) is booming amongst adults, at least according to MSNBC. Which begs the question for Australian readers, will handball be the next big Australian sport? Certainly I spent many, many lunch breaks playing and observing […]
Will the AOL Digg spamming story be the most Dugg story ever?
This story is going to make big headlines in the next couple of days, although I’m sure I’ve read something similar in the past. What shocked me though was the rate in which the story at Digg itself is getting Dugg. I opened the page up at Digg to see what the fuss was about. […]
Today’s smiles
Whilst I’m still waiting on my latest attempt to convert Thunderbird files to something I can use elsewhere (it’s been an hour running now!), two quick smiles both from Fark: On this story about a hit and run at a McDonalds outlet, the Fark headline: “Disgruntled McDonald’s customer runs into two other customers with her […]