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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.
Paris Hilton Back in Jail
This YouTube clip has over 1million views, I’ll let it speak for itself 🙂
APC Magazine…what can I say?
Picked up a copy of APC Magazine on the weekend. I very rarely buy computer magazines, after all why would anyone want to pay to read news that is 2 months old?… but I am rather impartial to the DVD’s. I met a few of the folks from APC Magazine at a conference last year. Short form, […]
Why Are Macs So Expensive In Australia?
Why are Macs so expensive in Australia
TiVo Coming to Australia!
This is extremely good news: TiVo, the time-shifting digital video recorder that became a household name in the US, will come to Australia in 2008. For a small subscription fee plus the price of the hardware, Australians will be able to pause live high definition TV, fast-forward ads, record shows and series from any of […]
Survey Finds Qantas is Crap: Now There’s a Surprise (not)
The SMH reports on a Choice survey of Australian flyers that rated Qantas as the worst international airline flying out of Australia and 3rd out of 4 domestic airlines, the Qantas owned Jetstar coming 4th. According to radio reports Australians fly Qantas out of habit, and the frequent flyer program and safety record also help. […]
CBS is Nuts! Bring Back Jericho
Via Chris Pirillo, Jericho has been cancelled by CBS in the US. To quote Jake from the end of series 1: nuts! I watch very little TV, but I’ve enjoyed every minute of Jericho, even if I’ve had to watch it away from my TV set as Channel Ten in Australia hasn’t shown the second […]
4.4% unemployment rate nationally, 2.7% in WA: struth
SMH coverage. TheWest coverage. Was it at school or Uni I sat through a lesson that taught that in the modern era full employment was really 5% because we could never again go lower? The SMH thinks it’s unlikely to cause interest rates to rise, I don’t agree. That last 4.4% would be 75% unemployable.The […]
BlogDesk updates
New version of Blogdesk out. It’s a bug fix and where as I was having some issues posting to some blogs before, the new version works a treat. I’ve been using it for over 18 months now, and I still love it, mind you in this time I’m sure someone somewhere must have implemented inline […]
Two cool Australian blogs you’re probably not reading
Sydney Daily Photo and Melbourne Today. Both photoblogs posting 1 photo from Sydney and Melbourne respectively every day. It’s a simple idea that just works, and in the case of Sydney Daily Photo it brings back a lot of memories for me, the author has had a strong focus on shots from The (Sutherland) Shire […]
Nearly time to give up on News.com.au
P-LEASE! A storm in a tea cup beaten up to be the leading news story. Lets see: Channel Ten new Kate had suffered from a still birth, but she’d CLEARLY told them it was in the past, and that she was over it. Big Brother re-runs a housemate task from the first series, caring for […]
Fred for President
Not many Australians would have been following this, but I’ve been watching for a while now, for those who have missed it, Fred Thompson, best known to Australians as the District Attorney Arthur Branch on Channel Tens Law and Order franchise, who also just happens to be a former Governor of Tennessee, is considering putting […]
Another expert says Human Made Global Warming is a crock
This speaks for itself: The United States?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢ leading hurricane forecaster said Friday that global ocean currents, not human-produced carbon dioxide, are responsible for global warming, and the Earth may begin to cool on its own in five to 10 years. William Gray, a Colorado State University researcher best known for his annual forecasts of hurricanes […]
E-Gold soon to be no more
Looks like the chaps behind E-Gold are in a spot of bother: “Three owners of online payment processor E-Gold and an affiliated company have been indicted for money laundering and related crimes for allegedly allowing sellers of child pornography, operators of investment scams and other types of criminals to send and receive payments related to […]
New Template
Apologies for the work in progress, trying to be modern and testing it all locally with my WAMP install didn’t work, so I’ve reverted back to the old fashioned way: installing a template by tweaking it live. It was time for a new template. The old template, live for maybe 5 months, as much as […]
Universal Key
In the cool I want category, the Keyport, via NotCot: “KeyPort – an all in one key fob?¢‚Ǩ¬¶ just get specialized blanks cut to match your car, house, boat, locker, etc keys and the slot right in. In the press kit it says that it is ?¢‚Ǩ?ìcreated to complement your personal style and organize those […]
Starting the guilt complex: in The Age
The irony of this blog remains every day that it was only ever an after thought to my main projects, The Blog Herald, then Weblog Empire, the other blog network, and probably soon the next big thing or two, and yet somehow appearing in Top lists sort of creates this guilt that personally I should […]
New Crowded House record out July 2
From the official Crowded House email list: On 2nd July Crowded House release ‘Time On Earth’, their first studio album since 1993, with a line-up featuring founder members Neil Finn and Nick Seymour, former member Mark Hart and new drummer Matt Sherrod ‘Time On Earth’ tracklisting: 1. Nobody Wants To 2. Don’t Stop Now 3. […]
Smage downsizing: following US trend
Iconic Australian newspapers the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age (The Smage collectively) are downsizing, not only jobs but print size as well, shriking to the tall sheet size I blogged about noticing in North America last November. It’s been 10 years since I read a print version on the SMH regularly, and I remember […]
US online gambling ban to be overturned?
Good news from el Reg: “U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank’s press office has confirmed that Thursday at 10am Frank will introduce legislation to repeal the controversial Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA)” Now if only we could someone in Australia to overturn our ridiculous laws 🙂
Nifty Tip: FF search in a new tab
Thanks to Lifehacker (once again) for a very handy tip. If you’re like me, you use the search box in FireFox regularly, and in doing so I usually open a new tab for the results, this hack sets search results to automatically open in a new tab: Type about:config into the address bar, and then […]