/ blog · archive
Archive
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.
Sign of the times: New game to be designed for Wii, but not the Xbox 360 or PS3
Definite sign of the times: Rockstars next release, Manhunt 2 is being developed for the Playstation 2, PlayStation Portable and….the Wii, but not the XBox 360 nor the PlayStation 3. I keep reading reports of people trading PS3’s for the Wii, and of the massive backlog of orders in the US and Europe for the […]
I hate Lifehacker
It’s official. As of this morning I’ve decided I hate Gawker Media’s Lifehacker. Why? because it’s so infuriatingly useful. Nearly every single day I find something interesting to download, really really good stuff as well. I’ve already got 3 columns of programs in All Programs, I don’t want a 4th column. Today’s key download: RocketDock. […]
Kodak to break the Ink Cartel
Great news for owners of Inkjet Printers, according to USA Today Kodak is about to launch a new line of Inkjet printers with CHEAP INK! To quote: For years, companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Epson, Canon and Lexmark have sold inexpensive consumer-grade inkjet printers ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äù many are about $100 or so ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äù and made up the […]
Is Day Job Killer using fake product endorsements?
The latest and greatest ebook out there (again): Day Job Killer (not an affiliate link). I must have half a dozen emails from marketing gurus in my inbox all pushing the program. I must admit, I’m tempted to buy it, Affiliate Project X wasn’t a bad read, but there’s one big question though, is the […]
Do you Hate Macs?
Tired of Mac users telling you how wonderful their Mac is? We’ll have I got the antedote for you, compliments of a wonderfully earnest peice of journalism by Charlie Brooker at The Guardian: I hate Macs. I have always hated Macs. I hate people who use Macs. I even hate people who don’t use Macs […]
David Hicks: enough is enough
More David Hicks BS: this time an advertising campaign trying to “humanise” him. Enough is enough. Hang him, shoot him, do something to him please Mr Bush, just something to shut the nutters up. Am I really alone in being sick and tired of hearing the whinging day in, day out about Hicks being in […]
Vista dreaming
Despite all the hype about Windows Vista I’ve not felt the need to run off to the shops and buy a copy, after all, what exactly does it do that XP doesn’t do? having said that however, I love to play with new things, so I remembered today that the Acer Laptop I bought in […]
An ascendant Pinoy blogosphere
It’s all happening in the Philippines. Despite the occasional bad strange odd different apple, the Pinoy blogosphere is rocking, and it’s not just the Philippines greatest export to the world BryanBoy, it’s The Bayanihan Blog Network. OK, so the first word is a definite tongue twister, but take a look anyway!
The Blog Herald went to PR 6
Interesting, just dropped by my old stomping ground The Blog Herald, the site has dropped down from it’s PR 7 to a PR 6. I wonder why?
OMG! IT’S OFFICIAL: CROWDED HOUSE TO REFORM!
I read in the weekend papers that there was a strong chance of this happening, but it’s confirmed: Crowded House is reforming after a break of 10 years, minus of course Paul Hester who very sadly took his own life in 2005. The great new for fans who were never particularly fond of Tim Finn […]
Second Life a pyramid scheme?
Valleywag claims that Second Life is a pyramid scheme. They’re in part right. When I was a lot more active in SL (I’m down to maybe once a month these days and I’ve long since cancelled my paid account) pyramid style banking schemes were common and I probably lost $10-$20 investing some of my money […]
My 5 minutes of being Dave Winer
Yep, I’ve suffered a bout of grumpy old blogger syndrome. No, I’m not claiming my blog was the first one, but this thread at 901am got me started. The new owners of The Blog Herald (no link love anymore) took it upon themselves to remove my name from the author column at the bottom of […]
BlogCatalog on the market
It really is a sign of a strong and mature market place when quality sites regularly hit the market, and BlogCatalog proves the point. The site is currently for saleThe site sold in 1 day at Sitepoint for $40,000 USD. Congrats to all involved. (thanks to David for the tip).
Bryanboy struck by the Shared Hosting scam
Bryanboy shares his experiences with MidPhase. It’s a case of the Shared Hosting scam striking again, the one where by so-called high use shared hosting packages aren’t really because usually buried somewhere in the fine print (never in an easy place, nor disclosed up front) is a clause about CPU/ server usage which states they […]
Eatonweb up for sale at Sitepoint
The first of the blog directories…and I mean *THE FIRST*, the EatonWeb Portal is up for sale at Sitepoint, current bid at the time of writing is $4k with a BIN of $15k. From what I can read it’s fallen on tough times, zero revenue, although it’s still got a PR of 7. At $15k […]
Thank God, Dave Taylor articulates my own suspicions on the Vista Laptop Blogger Scandal
I’d been hoping to bring this up in Gday World this week, but I never got the chance, because I’ve always seen the Microsoft Vista Laptop Bloggers scandal for what it is, aside from a marketing ploy, but a marketing ploy that had a focus..on hardware. The reason Microsoft sent out those laptops wasn’t alone […]
Comment spam is getting even more out of control
Maybe it’s just the new year/ silly season spike (comment spammers normally ramp up spam at this time of year because it’s less likely to get picked up as people are away) but it would appear more than ever that comment spam is getting even more out of control. I cleared approx 15,000 comment spam […]
Time names Wii Sports Video Game of the Year
More good news on the games front for Nintendo. To quote: There is no possible way to say this enough times: great graphics don’t make great games. Perfect Dark Zero looked like a Titian, but it was a snooze. Wii Sports?¢‚Ǩ‚Äùa mini-sports anthology that includes golf, boxing, tennis, baseball and bowling?¢‚Ǩ‚Äùlooks like Colecovision. The little […]
WordPress eating comments
Apologies to those who have commented in the last couple of hours with no luck, the WP db bug has struck again, it might have been the 15,000 odd spam comments sitting on the install causing an issue, which have since been deleted. I received a number of notifications of comments that were simply blank, […]
If your Ford wasn’t a lemon already…
It soon will be. Ask anyone who has ever owned a Falcon in Australia, including the BA, they’ll explain. I learnt after the EA, thankfully. 🙂