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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.
Australian Tsunami Crisis?
Tsunami Warnings for the entirity of the East Coast. Struth. Probably will be nothing more than a slight tidal surge (20-30cm), but reports coming in are saying people in Cairns are heading to high ground. More soon…possibly.
April fools day moved to March 31: Arrington
TechCrunch’s Mike Arrington today announced that April Fools Day was now moving to March 31. Arrington said in the statement that thousands of years of tradition meant nothing to him, because TechCrunch has a larger combined viewing audience than all the traditionalists in the world combined. “April 1 has never been a good date in […]
Gun Crazy
Video over on Chris Pirillo’s blog. Sickening. Totally sickening. I’m hesitant to start another flame war on guns, but I’ll repeat what I’ve said previously, and note that this is coming from someone who’s politics has always been slightly right of centre, and in a classical sense closest to libertarian: US gun policy is crazy. […]
Why are TXT messages so expensive
Consumerist does the math on TXT messaging, and finds there is a 7314% markup in the US. Given Telstra/ Optus often charge 25c (AUD), sometimes more depending on the plan, the markup in Australia is even worse again. Of course a lot of it is due to the thieving all three major carriers partake in […]
US Spelling is a pain
Posted at 901am today on Bush quoting bloggers. Headline “President quotes bloggers in Iraq defense”, but is it right? In normal (ie not US) English the last word would be defence, and that’s how I originally wrote the post until the “I have to convert this to US English because of the site” part of […]
Is Dave Winer search engine spamming?
This post at Scripting.com Notice the link in the 4th paragraph for Russo & Hale. Not having a go at Dave on this, I’d be doing the same thing in his situation, but it’s interesting to see the godfather of blogging undertaking SEO on posts to hijack Google in terms of his enemies business name. […]
My AuctionAds gripe
I wrote a couple of weeks back that I was going to give Jeremy Schoemaker’s AuctionAds a spin, it certainly looked promising. Now admittedly I haven’t rolled it out beyond one small site because of this: The thing is, because AuctionAds isn’t contextual it’s near on hopeless unless you’ve got a very, very targeted niche […]
It’s time for all the Hicks apologists to shut the you know what up
If you believe the rabid left, David Hicks has been tortured, locked in solitary confinement for years on end….. And yet lets read the SMH coverage of Hick’s court appearance today: “Rather than being pale from long stints locked inside the maximum security prison, Hicks’s skin looked as tanned as that of his American military […]
Anthony Callea is gay, now there’s a surpise (not)
NineMSN: Anthony Callea admits he’s gay Australia’s Clay Aitken. Will the front page of The West read “Callea Gay Shock” tomorrow? unlikely, more like “Another Eagle caught taking drugs”, but expect a line in the Entertainment Section.
Al Gore be warned
Great to see one back at Gore:
Windows Live unfortunate add placements
Next to the Reuters story mentioned in my last post about the women turning up to the Madrid Training Bombing trials in a Mohamad cartoon T-Shirt:
Hero
Reuters via HotAir covering the Spanish trial of the alleged Madrid Train Bombers: A woman who lost her husband in the 2004 Madrid train bombings displayed an infamous cartoon mocking the Prophet Mohammad on her T-shirt in front of 29, mostly Muslim, suspects on trial for the attacks on Monday. The woman?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s white T-shirt showed […]
Handling Death Threats
Chris Pirillo puts some perspective on the whole Kathy Sierra death threats meme. I totally avoided the issue in my post on Scoble’s chicken reaction at 901am because it’s difficult to talk about perspective when some one is legitimately upset about what has happened (as I have no doubt that Sierra is) without sounding like […]
Block Categories in Robots.txt?
Michael Gray advisers in his WP advice video: block categories in Robots.txt to help Google SERPs. Interesting. We all know duplicate content is bad in Google, but it never dawned on me to consider category pages. I’ve got some work to do in the next couple of days 🙂
Will the success of the Wii affect Harvey Norman’s Share Price
Latest Wii news: Wii is outselling PS3 2 to 1 in the US. Question for Australian readers: Harvey Norman, arguably Australia’s biggest retailer of computer + electrical goods doesn’t stock Nintendo’s Wii, not just the console but the games either. The mind boggles as to why, but knowing that the Wii is a huge success, […]
Australians working online, let us rejoice, we’re all about to take a paycut
SMH: Aussie dollar hits 10-year high How do I respond to this without droping the F word over and over and over again. Sure, it might make it cheaper to visit the US, but ALL of my income at the moment is in US Dollars. And lets talk rip offs, I ordered a couple of […]
Too much noise, step away from the keyboard
Michael Gray doesn’t mince his words, but he is mostly spot on, although I would add that the next Danny Sullivan is probably posting away on some unknown blog as we speak. It’s a catch 22, yes, there’s too much noise, too much junk, but you’ve got to start somewhere as well, and who am […]
So long Zefrank, and thanks for all the fish
Zefrank’s last show. Sad. Thank you Ze for entertaining us for a year.
Congrats to LifeHacker
I’d comment on this post, but unfortunately like all Gawker Media blogs you need an invite to comment and so far I’ve only got commenting rights at Valleywag (hint, hint 🙂 ). Congrats though to LifeHacker on picking up the award for best group weblog at The Bloggies. To be honest I probably only subscribed […]
Hope for the online gambling community
Reuters: U.S. Rep. Barney Frank is considering a bill to repeal a ban imposed last year on online gambling, said a spokesman for the lawmaker on Wednesday. “Chairman Frank is considering legislation,” said Steven Adamske, spokesman for the Massachusetts Democrat, who chairs the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee. Now if only we had a […]