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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.
Apparently Chairs Cause Fatness
I use to like Troy Buswell, but it was when I realised that he cared only about himself that I lost faith. Not saying I’m exactly skinny myself (but I’m only 10kg off my ideal weight now.) That said, the issue was with the ex: maybe I should forgive now, and accept he had good […]
Balance on the Indian Attack Stories
I may not agree with every conclusion, but some decent balance and some reasonably fair perspective. Warranted in the broader picture of the debate. It’s simple: India doesn’t want to see its citizens harmed In a few elegant words, Tharoor cut to the heart of the issue and it is worth quoting him in full: […]
Wait, so not all Americans know about the Fried Chicken thing?
And here I was thinking that it was just us dumb Australians…. 🙂 Daily Camera: Denver schools’ menu for Martin Luther King birthday hard for some to digest Denver Public Schools apologized Tuesday for what it called a “well-intentioned but highly insensitive” attempt to honor the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Friday’s DPS lunch menu, […]
Just How Racist Are The Young Turks?
Follow up to the last post, I made this little video:
Want to see real racism?
This is from a show in the United States called “The Young Turks” on the so called “racist” KFC ad. According to the guy in the show, the ad is “stereotypical…pushing a stereotype. When I’m thinking race or something…they’re trying to make the target look bad or worse than they actually are…which it does. With […]
Is It Still Racist When Indians Kill Indians
No, that’s the caste system isn’t it? Still, given what happened in Australia during the Schapelle Corby arrest and trial, we’re not exactly innocent when it comes to xenophobia. The Advertiser: Two detained at airport over Singh murder POLICE are refusing to reveal the identities of a man and a woman intercepted at Sydney Airport […]
Stilgherrian Is Right
Sea Shepherd? Gave my opinion 2 years ago Sea Shepherd of course claim it was a deliberate attack. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn’t. Thing is though, guys, if you don’t want to be involved in a collision at sea, don’t fucking well deliberately put your boat so close to another.
Back In The Top 10 Australian Startups
When Kim Heras moved the Top 100 Australian startups to Younoodle, we completely disappeared, not helped by the fact that we didn’t even have a Younoodle listing. New year and finally we’re back in the Top 10.
Finally Fixed The Site
Completely reinstalled WordPress here. The DB was the most fun: a full import borked the site again, so when with cutting and pasting the key tables from the SQL db into phpmyadmin, one at a time to check if they’d break the site or not. comments seem to be working, although the template needs some […]
Lets Lay The Abbott Bias On Hard
I may not be the biggest Tony Abbott fan in the world, but likewise the coverage in the MSM of Abbott’s shadow cabinet appointments today was so bias as to be cringe worthy. Yeah, remember that the MSM is suppose to report on facts? So when I hear on nearly every news service that Abbott […]
LOL: We’re Apparently a Scrapper Site
There’s been lots of lulz following my reply to Media140 a couple of weeks back, but the best came from one person who claims that The Inquisitr is a scrapper site who copies and pastes content that isn’t our own. Let me say up front that roughly 20-30% of our content (sometimes less) is most […]
Nichenet Turns 10
Roughly 10 years ago (the exact date I don’t recall, except that I’m sure it was 99) I registered my first business name: Nichenet. Two business name registrations later and Nichenet became Nichenet Pty Ltd in around late 2006-2007. The name came about when I was asked to pitch for the design of a website. […]
Rudd-erless while Oil Spilled
Those who know me know that I’m no tree hugging hippie…sorry greenie, but there are things you do, and things you don’t do. Like let oil spill into the Timor Sea for 2 months before plugging the hole. Where was Rudd during this time? Surely if the inept operators couldn’t have fixed it with X […]
Did I mention I like the New Technorati?
And not only because they’re selling more of our ads at late 🙂 Technorati Top 100: 50-75.
Test
just a quick test to see if we’re working
Declan’s first movie: Space Alien Attack
My iPhone 3GS combined with a 7 year old boy = this. Declan did it without prompting either…the only thing I had to do was combine 3 clips and add a small overlay intro.
Inquisitr case study on Problogger
Duncan Riley of The Inquisitr Shares a Popular Post Case Study The questions were set, so the responses to fit the questions. None the less, doing a Q & A like that forces you to think about what you did right and wrong. I actually enjoy it, and some might actually find value in what […]
Blue moon and praise for Conroy
Epic Win: Australian Government to force wholesale separation of Telstra This is so much win. It’s win x 1000. I don’t believe I’ve been more excited about a Government decision for a very long time. Did I say win already? Previous notes January 2009 Structural separation, as I?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢ve always argued is the only solution. Telstra […]
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Hong Kong Best Food Box Hill: white people not welcome
The suburb we moved to just over a month ago borders Box Hill, the center of the Chinese community in Melbourne. Box Hill is our local shopping center, and its 3 minutes in the car. I love it: parts of it remind me of Hong Kong: a magically fascinating range of shops you don’t get […]