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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.
I’m back….
Yes, after a heavy fortnight dedicated to the Australian election I’m back on deck and blogging! Having not been able to update the Blog Herald in 10 days results in a Google Page Rank slip from 7 to 6 which is a pain, but I’ll make up for it in the coming weeks. For those […]
Blogging space ship One
fascinating, http://www.2020hindsight.org/2004/09/29/ansari-x-prize-x1/ you know the problem with the 1960’s futurist’s visions of space travel at the turn of the century is that they wrongly took a socialist view that Government would successfully fund space travel. Skip foward 40 years and no trips to Mars but for the first time in a long time we are […]
Delayed moblogging coming soon…
I’ve been a big fan of moblogging for some time and have recently been fortunate to obtain a phone from work with camera, however there is no ability to add a data ability to the service, none the less photos will be here soon, abeit delayed by a data cable I’m yet to purchase. No […]
Wi-Fi blogging on the lounge
Although I haven’t had the opportunity to blog as much lately as I’d like, the ability to work from my lounge room, in front on my TV through Wi-Fi and laptop has radically changed the way I work at home. From hours in my office I’ve now been liberated from the desktop to the laziness […]
Mushroom cloud over North Korea
Yahoo> A large explosion occurred in the northern part of North Korea (news – web sites), sending a plume of smoke more than two miles wide into the air on an important anniversary of the communist regime, a South Korean news agency reported Sunday. ..Seoul as raising the possibility of an accident or a nuclear […]
Ultra-fast broadband hits Europe
I can’t wait, although it will probably take Telstra another 50 years….. Reuters: His 10-megabit-per-second service from telecommunications company Bredbandsbolaget is up to 20 times faster than conventional cable modems, enabling a user to download a two-hour movie in a matter of minutes rather than hours
The day the ADSL died
Ahhh!!!! Looks like the D-Link DSL-300 has packed it up: no ethernet connection working: my ISP iinet (despite providing it) said its not their problem and the manufacturer. If the Blog Herald is a little quiet the next few days you’ll know why: 56k connection through the work laptop, a bit like 1998 revisted.
Sez Gov lover’s his ex
More bizarre sex scandal stories from the Governors Mansion of New Jersey The New Jersey gay sex scandal took an explosive new turn as a man claiming to be Golan Cipel’s lover came forward and reported the affair to aides of Gov. Jim McGreevey, sources said yesterday. The mystery man, a college professor from northern […]
Questioning Google on free speech
Reports that Google have banned an anti gay marriage advertisement on Adsense for this site from a Christian group on the bizarre grounds that it promotes hate. Bizarre you may well ask? or am I defending their view point? I?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢m not arguing one way or another on the content but Google search is a service […]
Wired drops Internet punctuation
I’m on mixed thoughts about this one. Punctuation has its place but its far easier not to use it. Does dropping the capital I from reference of the Internet denigate its purpose as a description of something of value? Wired> Effective with this sentence, Wired News will no longer capitalize the “I” in internet. At […]
The demise of the great white hope
One of the images that struck me in the lead up to the Olympics is US swimmer Michael Phelps telling the word that he would be winning 8 gold medals at the Olympics in a fashion that can only be described as arrogant to the max. He was going to win everything he competed him. […]
The lost spectators of the Athens Olympics
Im watching far too much olympics at the moment and not enough time blogging, if the Blog Herald is a little short in the next two weeks you’ll know why. One thing strikes me though, with the exception of the Swimming, the stands at ALL the other events are nearly completely empty. In Sydney you […]
New Jersey Governor Resigns due to Gay affair
WNYC News: In a stunning declaration, Gov. James E. McGreevey acknowledged that he had an extramarital affair with another man and announced his resignation Thursday. “My truth is that I am a gay American,” he said. “Shamefully, I engaged in adult consensual affairs with another man, which violates my bonds of matrimony,” the married father […]
Like we all need to work harder
Wired: Turning Slackers Into Workaholics Researchers use a gene treatment to turn off monkeys’ dopamine receptors – yielding harder-working, more focused monkeys. Despite obvious applications in the corporate world, the scientists say they’re just trying to understand mental illness.
Txt as a tool in US politics
Wired is running a story that txt has been picked up as a tool amongst political campaigners in the US. Ive never understood why txt has taken so long to take off in the US? Just for once the rest of the world is far ahead here with the tool being used for years for […]
It’s back
After testing evey blog tool after the sun and then learning wordpress from the bottom up, my personal blog rises from the dead to return some 9 months after the last effort was abondoned due to The Blog Herald taking up far too much time. Ive missed the opportunity to blog on things non-blog related, […]