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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.
Public Service Announcement: Kangaroos and cars don’t mix
My new image is an important public service announcement, particularly to those who visit Australia for the first time. Kangaroo’s and cars don’t mix. Me, I’m lucky, I’ve only destroyed a windscreen and side mirror thanks to local members of the Skippy gang. My Mrs, well she’s rolled a car before, and on another occasion […]
Blog tools at Blog Desk
Darrens got a great list of Blog Tools over at Problogger at the moment, including a list of blog editing software. One struck my eye as being worthy of download: Why did Blogdesk stand out you might ask. I’ll tell you why. The image. Yep, the image directly above this text! It comes with a […]
What’s a blog and forum worth?
I sold two sites today. Weblog Empire for $1k USD and Coupon Weblog.com for $250. It took one and a half hours. Scary. Scary in that they could have been worth easily more. Scary in that even relatively non maintained sites can be worth so much. I’ve still got a long list of fun/ trial/ […]
Need food, must sell…Weblog Empire up for sale!
OK, I don’t need food but I know when I’ve reached my limit with new projects and old ones and its time to part ways with the old Weblog Empire site. I totally loved the idea of a blog link exchange but I just don’t have the time to run it or promote it at […]
Piracy worse than child pornography
The Inquirer gets it totally right. Even if you vote Republican, you’d have to start seriously considering the fact that something is extremely wrong with the current US Administration with laws such as these.
Did someone say Winter?
Nick Denton, taking the community out of Web 2.0
I was just reading Valleywag and it hit me: Nick Denton is taking the community out of Web 2.0. Why? easy: closed comments. This whole you’ve got to apply and be approved to be a commenter on his sites….well it sucks. Sure, we all know the difficulties of managing comments and the risks open comments […]
Firefox 1.5.0.2: complete with bugs!
Anyone experiencing semi-regular crashes of the latest release of Firefox? It updated itself last week and ever since it’s crashed for me maybe 3-4 times a day….damn annoying, but it’s still safer than using IE 🙂
Humour on Scriptlance
I’m not sure how long this listing will last….but I’ve got to love the response: Project: Blog commenter ID: 1145900161 Status: Open Budget: N/A Created: 4/24/2006 at 13:36 EST Bidding Ends: 5/1/2006 at 13:36 EST (6 days left) Project Creator: oxley1165 Rating: (No Feedback Yet) Description: I would like a program created which will post […]
Anzac Day 2006
Lest We Forget. Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There’s none of these so lonely and poor of old, But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold These laid the world away; poured out the red Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be Of work and joy, and that […]
The extra long weekend and searching for a new lounge: the odd parallels with blogging
It?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢s unofficially an extra long weekend here in Australia, with the Anzac Day Public Holiday tomorrow (Tuesday) many, many people have taken the Monday off work. She who must be obeyed was one of them 🙂 So we trekked up to Mandurah today to shop for a new lounge suite. The last major purchase I?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢ll […]
Are 25-40 year old parents leading the Web 2.0 revolution?
Just an idle thought. A lot of people I’m talking to online and offline lately involved in Web 2.0 (including some cutting edge blogging stuff) are 25-40 and have young kids. Am I falling into the trap I was always afraid of when I wrote The Blog Herald where I’ve become insular and naturally refined […]
Evangalising Australian blogging and Web 2.0: the Perth Blog Meetup
Having finally got through a backlog of work I wanted to post about my trip to Perth the Wednesday night just gone, and the great people I met at the Perth Blog Meetup. Worst thing, I didn’t take notes so I’m going to forget some names, but if I have missed you, apologies in advance. […]
Name this city
It’s 6:15pm at night. All the shops are closed. Gangs are fighting outside the closed shops in the main mall amongst themselves, screaming and kicking. A single police car sits at one end of the mall, two officers sitting inside watching but not acting. The few remaining office workers who dared leave their trip to […]
Petrol Panic
Was it Skyhooks with the song “We’re living in the 70s”?. Yesterday I had to fill up on my way back from Perth. I made the mistake (well I think it was a mistake) of stopping at the Caltex Woolworths outlet in Mandurah. It took me 40 minutes to get to the pump, fill up, […]
Digging a bloody great big hole.
Digg is in strife. Big time. Despite some unfortunate comments from Jason Calacanis which I think were totally unhelpful, For those of you who haven’t been following the whole thing, I’ll try to surmise it (some parts may be missed, comment if I need to add anything). 1. Jacob Gower (good bloke by the way) […]
How to remove Spyware Quake
After digging through Google, reading forums advocating all sorts of bizarre and long winded ideas, there is only one way I could remove Spyware Quake: by downloading Ewido anti-malware, software from the same people who write AVG. Effect a full scan then a memory scan as chances are there will be multiple related bugs with […]
Going down the Full Feed path.
Inspired by Darren, and also because I forgot to do it earlier, I’ve turned on the full feed here at duncanriley.com. It’s going to hurt what little traffic reads my personal rants, but to be honest….I don’t really care. As they say in the for love or money stakes, I’m blogging here because I want […]
I must be unwell…I recommended TypePad last night
I had the opportunity of speak to a local Rotary Club last night about blogging, and interesting experiment in itself given I had no laptop or audiovisual support so it was a matter of trying to explain the whole blogging thing to people who didn’t know anything about it…without pictures. Afterwards I was talking to […]
WordPress.com down
SEJ has more here yesterday. Looking like Matt and the team are still having problems: Once More We had a pretty bad hardware failure yesterday, and though it took longer than we liked everything was restored and has been running the past 6 hours or so just dandy. We did some proactive maintainence whil the […]