Category: General

Opera have announced the latest version of their browser, and unfortunately it still doesn’t do it for me. Got to say it’s a vast improvement over some of their earlier versions, it’s (fairly) quick, it renders CSS properly (I can still remember problems with v7), and their Widgets are pretty cool….its getting close but I hate the way they do tabs. I hate having to click on the tab to close it, and then it takes you back to the last tab you were reading….very annoying given I like to open up a whole pile of tabs in Firefox then read them one by one…in order. However, if you are using IE and don’t like Firefox give it a shot.

Tags: Opera

CNet reports that Sony is chasing blogger support for it’s new music video site Musicbox, by encouraging Bloggers to link to videos and even display them on their blogs (ala YouTube)….they’ve got to be joking. The same company that puts rootkits on our computers and sends C&D notices like McDonalds sells hamburgers want’s the support of bloggers! I don’t think so…at least not from this blogger.

Tags: Sony, Sony BMG, Musicbox

Younger voters show strongest support for same-sex unions (SMH):

NEARLY 50 per cent of Australians support the Australian Capital Territory’s attempts to formalise same-sex relationships, an ACNielsen poll has found….The new poll found 45 per cent of those surveyed supported the ACT laws and 34 per cent opposed them. Younger people were more likely to support the territory’s move. Fifty-six per cent of those aged 18 to 39 said they were in favour of the territory’s legislation. Support fell to 48 per cent of those aged 40 to 54 and to 29 per cent of people aged 55 and older.

I’d say when are this people going to grow up…but they have already, long live the youth of our country.

The year was 1998, and this from my old friend Laura (who is in teh middle of the pic), can you guess who is me?! 🙂 I’ll give a clue, I had hair then!

Ok, I admit, I’ve never been a big Lindsay Lohan fan, but this pic from Arieanna’s always excellent Lindsay Lohan blog makes me think twice!

Tags: Lindsay Lohan

I’m happy to note that David Krug, aka The Cowboy, has returned with a decent blog worth reading: PRblogging.com. Early days yet but I smell that the old cowboy might be back!

This from the BBC:

Arctic sea level has been falling by a little over 2mm a year – a movement that sets the region against the global trend of rising waters.

So this whole Greenhouse thing doesn’t stack up again…hmmm, interesting.

This comment at Slashdot:

The arctic icepack is melting at an accelerated rate, due to global warming. Once the ice is gone, it is no longer displacing so much water, and so sea levels drop.

Hmmmm….say no more, other than to note this interesting fact: Australia, despite not being a signatory to the Kyoto treaty, will be the ONLY country on the planet to meet it’s Kyoto targets by 2010. 🙂

Tags: Greenhouse affect, Kyoto, Ice caps

Amazing figures from eBay via Reuters, even more reason why we need net neutrality, because it a world without net neutrality, the eBay’s of this world wouldn’t exist:

EBay Inc. has now registered 200 million users of its online auction services, which would make it the fifth-largest country in the world if its members could form one nation, its CEO said on Tuesday.

Speaking to thousands of the company’s most loyal buyers and sellers at its annual user conference here, Chief Executive Meg Whitman said eBay achieved the milestone on Saturday.

Only, China, India, the United States and Indonesia are larger in terms of population, Whitman said.

As of March 31, the company had reported it had 192.9 million registered users worldwide, and 75.4 million “active” users in the March quarter. EBay’s biggest markets are the United States, Germany, Britain and South Korea.

Tags: eBay

An incredible story from Boston.com:

A venture-backed Waltham company that’s quietly amassed more than 650,000 Internet domain names is stepping out of stealth mode today and unveiling its plans to build a substantial Boston-area Web 2.0 business around the emerging field of “direct navigation.”

The company, called NameMedia, is being led by Kelly P. Conlin , 46, a veteran media executive who previously had been chief executive of International Data Corp. in Boston and Primemedia Inc. in New York. NameMedia has already hired 75 people in its office near Route 128 to buy, sell, and develop businesses around Internet domain names.

Yep, all those crap sites you land on with nothing but ads, and I’m not talking splogs or made for Adsense sites here, at least these guys try, I’m talking site with nothing more than ads here, have become big business, and by all accounts, if you read the Boston.com article, legitimate businesses.

Sad really that these sorts of people are able to pollute the internet this way.

And wondering why it’s getting near on impossible to get a decent domain with the word “blog” in it, or related to blogging, check this page out from the same company. Boston.com says that they are different to domain squatters. Bullsh*t. They’ve got Blogspot.net, a name trademarked by Google listed for $58,000. Now like anyone I’ve bought domains I’ve not developed yet, but I don’t make a business from it, these guys do, and they are making it harder for the little guy…

I’m having serious issues connecting to the Sydney Morning Herald this morning, anyone else? Really, really slow. Given the morning print media have no news on the historic win I’m wondering whether everyone is jumping online for news?

I did read earlier (after waiting for the page to load) that 20% of the Australian workforce is expected to call in sick to work or rock up late today as the match finished at 1am eastern…only in Australia! 🙂

Tags: SMH, Word Cup, Socceroos