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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.
Captain Cook’s Dairy online
The National Library of Australia has digitized Captain Cooks Dairy of the Endevour Mission which lead to the discovey of the East Coast of Australia available here. You know, I was raised in the Sutherland Shire in Sydney where Cook landed and attended the commemerations of the landing regularly. I hear do-gooders are trying to […]
What next, electronic drugs?
The world is a weird place, and although I can see the military uses for this, can you imagine this in your living room. I mean, seriously, next it will be sim-drugs, maybe a helmet that makes you nuseau’s and similutes the sound of an ambulance coming to save you? who knows, but who’s seriously […]
Doughnuts for Mormon Missionaries
There’s an old saying about avoiding politics and religion when you want to make friends, and I broke the second rule on the Blog Herald when I couldn’t help but take the piss out of a femenist mormon website. Naturally, Google’s Adsense provided a list of mormon sites in which to visit, and one struck […]
Thoughts on Terri Schiavo
The Terri Schiavo case seems to be the only thing many want to talk about State side at the moment, and although living a long distance away the case has also made news here, although about 20 pages into The West and the second part of the 6pm news. I’m not aware of all the […]
Nailing MSN
Time for a little blego on my little posted to personal blog: The Blog Herald just achieved its first No.1 placement on a major search engine for our key search term: “Blog News”, on MSN. It’s currently sitting at No. 2 on Google for the term behind the pesky, useless, computer generated Topix, but this […]
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Yes, not enough blogging, still recovering from the election, but the boy seems happy.
The world has finally gone mad
Strange but true: it might be time to ban lawyers in the States: “Denver Post: Two Durango teens thought they’d surprise neighbors with nighttime deliveries of home-baked treats. But one woman was so terrified, she sued and has won….Two teenage girls decided one summer’s evening to skip a dance where there might be cursing and […]
Murray school’s ‘cutest couple’ title awarded to lesbian pair
From the state that gave the world Mormonism, comes an interesting tale Murray school’s ‘cutest couple’ title awarded to lesbian pair: Salt Lake Tribune Face it: politics aren’t pretty. They aren’t even cute. The “best of the seniors” election at Murray High is no exception. Hanging chads and confusing butterfly ballots were not the issue. […]
Gates in “Teen Magazine” pose
This is very funny, take yourself back to 1983, throw on a dress and open your favourite teen magazine, and what do you see? http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=272750&st=0&#entry585309992
Windows DRM Installs RIAA Spyware on Your PC
If your for the war on software piracy I ask you to think twice: when the police lower themselves to lower levels than the pirates, or in historical speak: more criminal than the criminals, you start to question who to support: Windows DRM Installs RIAA Spyware on Your PC: he RIAA or their agents ?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Ǩ¬ù […]
How Did Animals Escape Tsunami?
Bizarre…. Wired: Wild animals seem to have escaped the Indian Ocean tsunami, adding weight to notions they possess a sixth sense for disasters, experts said Thursday. Sri Lankan wildlife officials have said the giant waves that killed over 24,000 people along the Indian Ocean island’s coast seemingly missed wild beasts, with no dead animals found.
Blog Herald Christmas Blogging Awards closing soon!
A gratuitous plug for the Blog Herald Im entitled to do it occasionally The Blog Herald Christmas Blogging Awards close 23 December, and yes, this year theres cash prizes!!!
Firefox ad appears in NY Times
It’s finally happened and can be viewed here The print is very small but none the less I still managed to appear in the list of names. Happiness is giving to a good cause.
UV protection from your washing machine?
Being Australian and have a patchwork of scars on my back from the moles cut out due to cancer scares I know the stats in this Wired story but I don’t know until today if I upgrade from my regular radiant to the colour version (I think its about $1 extra for memory) I now […]
Phone booths resurrected for cell users
What will they think of next? Phone booths resurrected for cell users: Fort Wayne Journal “Phone companies have eliminated more than a million traditional pay phones in the past eight years, many of them in phone booths, according to the Federal Communications Commission. Now, some restaurants, libraries and other businesses are slowly bringing back phone […]
Gay book ban goal of state lawmaker
I think the famous line went, First it was the jews, then the gays… or the like, but you get the context. This nutter from Alabama is trying to censor books that mention gay people, labelling them as gay propoganda. If the bill became law, public libraries couldn’t offer books with gay or bisexual characters. […]
BBQ Nation
Another weekend gone and some time for some gratuitous Australia plugging with this wonderful line “Australia is the BBQ Nation”. Every Friday night is BBQ night (unless going out), middle of winter or the heat of summer out it comes. Friday night consisted of sausages (thin), lamb cutlets, onions and herbed potatoes, washed down with […]
Just plain wrong
Regular readers would know that my political persuasion in right of centre, particularly on economics, but this story is just plain wrong, even our Prime Minister, who for non-Australian readers is of a conservative persuasion, in the context of the abortion debate, defends proper sex education (in the context of a way to reduce the […]
Yes its back
Just for once iinet met a deadline, the new wireless card in the back of the box is working fine talking to the wireless adsl modem now located at the phone point at the other end of the house, and all is well again in the world.
Dec 1 is “ADSL Return Day”
iiNet (or “ii” as they now call themselves: short for “incompetent idiots”) rang last week after my faxed complaint to apologise then tell me it would still be another week until my net access was returned. In another complete f*ck up the guy who rang (he was from “upstairs” so he said) promised that someone […]