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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.
An apology to Jason Calacanis
Well, I f@cked up. It wasn’t nice, a bit tired and emotional so to speak. So sorry Jason. We all make mistakes, sometimes I do tend to more than others 🙂
A Fresh Coat of Paint
Yes, its not dead, but its time for a fresh coat of paint here at duncanriley.com and a bit of a fresh start after some time away from the person blog as many, many other things have gotten in the way. I’ve got a new project on the way shortly as well which is great […]
Grass
I stupid question to be sure, but why plant frost intolorent grass in an area that gets the occasional frost? its a serious question I’ve been asking myself as the grass in my temporary residence whilst my new house is being built turns a yellow-white colour due to the nasty frosts the ridiculously cold weather […]
Back in the politics game
Check out Donklephant for a different mix of politics, the latest from Weblog Empire.
An Australian version of Google Maps?
Spotted this one on kuro5hin.org today in an article about Google Aquisitions – Where2 – This Australian mapping company was also mentioned in the 2004 annual report, but not much is known about it. It also had something to do with Google Maps. Maybe at long last we are going to get a mapping service […]
Weblog Empire logo
Working draft, but I like it. Now for the slogan ideas: “Why stop at just 1″ “If Calacanis can do it, why can’t I” “If Denton can do it, why can’t I” “First the blogosphere, then the world” “because weblog democracy would require tanks”
There no where without Firefox support
This article at Wired about a multi-player online game “There” sparked an interest and I thought I might take a look. Site looked nice and clicked on the free trial. Then, to my horror, the “we only support Internet Explorer”page appeared. Oh well, you not here nor there if you don’t support Firefox…..
Captain Cook’s Dairy online
The National Library of Australia has digitized Captain Cooks Dairy of the Endevour Mission which lead to the discovey of the East Coast of Australia available here. You know, I was raised in the Sutherland Shire in Sydney where Cook landed and attended the commemerations of the landing regularly. I hear do-gooders are trying to […]
Thoughts on Terri Schiavo
The Terri Schiavo case seems to be the only thing many want to talk about State side at the moment, and although living a long distance away the case has also made news here, although about 20 pages into The West and the second part of the 6pm news. I’m not aware of all the […]
Nailing MSN
Time for a little blego on my little posted to personal blog: The Blog Herald just achieved its first No.1 placement on a major search engine for our key search term: “Blog News”, on MSN. It’s currently sitting at No. 2 on Google for the term behind the pesky, useless, computer generated Topix, but this […]
Windows DRM Installs RIAA Spyware on Your PC
If your for the war on software piracy I ask you to think twice: when the police lower themselves to lower levels than the pirates, or in historical speak: more criminal than the criminals, you start to question who to support: Windows DRM Installs RIAA Spyware on Your PC: he RIAA or their agents ?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Ǩ¬ù […]
Blog Herald Christmas Blogging Awards closing soon!
A gratuitous plug for the Blog Herald Im entitled to do it occasionally The Blog Herald Christmas Blogging Awards close 23 December, and yes, this year theres cash prizes!!!
Firefox ad appears in NY Times
It’s finally happened and can be viewed here The print is very small but none the less I still managed to appear in the list of names. Happiness is giving to a good cause.
Just plain wrong
Regular readers would know that my political persuasion in right of centre, particularly on economics, but this story is just plain wrong, even our Prime Minister, who for non-Australian readers is of a conservative persuasion, in the context of the abortion debate, defends proper sex education (in the context of a way to reduce the […]
Yes its back
Just for once iinet met a deadline, the new wireless card in the back of the box is working fine talking to the wireless adsl modem now located at the phone point at the other end of the house, and all is well again in the world.
Dec 1 is “ADSL Return Day”
iiNet (or “ii” as they now call themselves: short for “incompetent idiots”) rang last week after my faxed complaint to apologise then tell me it would still be another week until my net access was returned. In another complete f*ck up the guy who rang (he was from “upstairs” so he said) promised that someone […]
When moving ADSL goes bad
Apologies for those expecting the growing volume on the Blog Herald and the Search Engine Herald to continue unabated: when moving Friday the ADSL internet connection did not follow, and my useless ISP, iinet are looking into it! 4 days without internet access is a real pain in the u know what. I hope they […]
Sad state of affairs
One of the most pathetic sites I have ever laid my eyes on http://www.sorryeverybody.com/ Instead of celebrating the wonder of democracy in America and accepting the result, these sad sacks of shit denigrate the great nation with their whiney apologies to the rest of the world. If this is the attitude taken by many on […]
How WordPress bought back the love
A corny tagline I know, and I promised myself to be nice to Mena at SixApart some time ago, so there will be no anti-MT tirades either here or at the Blog Herald but I have to say publicly what a wonderful time I’m having blogging using WordPress. The most refreshing change is not having […]
Finished reading bloglines subs 6 weeks late
After a long election campaign and a backlog of work I’ve finally gotten through my bloglines subs: Steve Rubel posts going back to the beginning of October. Its a relief to have finally gotten back on top of things, particularly after 4 days of non stop re-writting of the Blog Herald. Its such a pleasure […]