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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.
Kimberly Williams: some sheila’s never give up
More funny stuff in relation to Kimberly Williams of the Boston School of Electrolysis over at Greywolf today here. This sheila never seems to give up, from SEOMoz to Greywolf and who knows where else next, she’s like the energizer bunny on crack, with ridiculous legal threats against half the SEO community. Obviously someone never […]
Blogtipping September 2006
The first of each month is Blog Tipping Day according to Business Blogwire, and each month the list of people participating seems to continue to grow, so it’s time I had a go as well :-). Yes, it is September 2 as I write this, but it’s still September 1 on the West Coast on […]
Dam Busters to be remade…but what about the dog?
According to The Register, Peter Jackson, he of King Kong and Lord of the Rings Fame is going to remake one of the best films of all time: The Dam Busters. The report indicates that Jackson’s version will be more accurate to the real story of the Dam Busters as much of the actual mission […]
HP Printers are crap
I never buy HP printers…and here’s a classic example:
How to get out of the Echo Chamber
Darren has some good points here based on a post by Chris Pirillo. A great read, but I’ll add some of the things I do regularly: 1. Read the blog list at BlogAds Want to see different blogs that are doing amazing things, the BlogAds blog list does it for me every time. Yep, I […]
Chicken Noodle Soup Video
Grawolf’s update on his stats based on the Chicken Noodle Soup Video are up. Intesting stats, particularly the fact that his second higest post is for “My Butt is Big” :-). My personal stats for the Chicken Noodle Soup video come in at 1668 page views month to date, but I’ve fallen off Google’s main […]
How to apply for a blogging job
Darren has an excellent guide up on how to apply for a blogging job. It’s amazing from the other end the variation you do get from applications for blogging positions. Sure, the blogosphere and blogging are generally informal in their structures and general usage of the English language but this doesn’t mean your application should […]
kvetches? WT?
My new word for today: kvetch, or it’s variation, kvetches. I’d never heard the word prior to today, and yet Jeremy used a variation of it (kvetchy) in an email I was party to, and Dave Winer used it in a post. According to The Free Dictionary, kvetch means: 1. A chronic, whining complainer. 2. […]
UK Telegraph writer caught copying work
This sheilas a brunette so she cant even use dumb blonde as an excuse: Threadwatch has the details, but compare and contract, the Mediabistro.com post was the first to be published. Tags: Stupid Sheila Pommy journalists
Blaugh hits the spot
Looks like Chris Pirillo’s comic venture is improving…certainly this comic is dead on 🙂
Wii…I’m disapointed
This from the Beeb. I haven’t personally owned a game console since the Atari 2600, and yet I was really, really looking forward to the Wii, it sounds like the sort of console a non-console gamer like me would want, and yet if the beeb article is correct it will come in at around $420 […]
Ze on the rules of flying
the show with zefrank
The demise of the political bloggers
Andrew Sullivan has some interesting figures on the decline in readership of US political blogs this year. The question is though is, have political blogs had their day? I can see some arguing that the drop off is because the US is half way through the Presidential cycle, and yet I remember reading last year, […]
It’s just not cricket!
Cheeky sods! Tags: b5media, Creative Weblogging
The 10 ways Australia would be different if we were an American State
Inspired by Darren’s recent list making competitions, I present some facts for those who think Australia is nothing more than an American State: The 10 ways Australia would be different if we were an American State 1. Our currency would be made out of paper and would be green. Not only would it be really […]
Machine translation is go!
I’ll have to watch my bonzer bobs, my buggers and my howyagoinmates, but I’ve added this translation plugin to the sidebar….after a little feedback from an internal b5 test I struck Chinese and Korean off the list, and I’ll probably end up taking Japanese off as well, but we’ll see how it goes, or if […]
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Struth: Coles Myer to be bought by Americans!
Via the SMH COLES MYER is likely to fall into foreign hands in what is shaping as the biggest corporate takeover in Australian history, valued at more than $16 billion. A group of US financiers, believed to be led by the private investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co, is understood to be behind an […]
Are you cynical?
You Are 52% Cynical Yes, you are cynical, but more than anything, you’re a realist. You see what’s screwed up in the world, but you also take time to remember what’s right. How Cynical Are You?
Macs are a crashing all over the place!
What would you rather, a Windows PC that runs for weeks without crashing (like mine do, indeed I’ve not rebooted my XP MCE PVR box for about 6 weeks now, and that then was only because of a critical systems update), or a Mac that crashes every other day? Lets ask some high profile Mac […]