Category: General

This is pretty cool: FlightAware. Saw it on Joi Ito’s blog, he says that he wishes it was international. What would they do for Western Australia though, you could probably track the domestic traffic with less than 10 dots, and this for a state bigger than Western Europe 🙂

One thing that really sh*ts me about the press is the lies they use, and the biggest lie of all is that there was no weapons of mass distruction in Iraq. Because folks, there was.

Here is a short list
0.77 metric tons of enriched uranium
1,500 gallons of chemical weapons agents
Chemical warheads containing cyclosarin (a nerve agent five times more deadly than sarin gas)
Over 1,000 radioactive materials in powdered form meant for dispersal over populated areas

And thats only part of the list. Don’t believe what you hear or read. WMD was found in Iraq, its just not popular to say so.

Apparently its Halloween, so my wife tells me as about 8 kids knocked on the door tonight here in Western Australia, which is all very well and good…except that it’s an American thing and I really have no interest in it. So the kids at the door didn’t get a lecture about the evils of stupid American traditions…because at the end of the day its really just an American thing that unfortunately has spread here as well…. they all got a CD case each, out of the box of 25 I bought off ebay about 6 months ago for about $2 a case (with shipping)….what can I say? it was cheap, which is why I bought it, even if I’ve only used 2 since, and now there are 8…. hang on another 4 ppl just knocked on the door whilst I was typing this, so that makes 12 kids who have brand new CD cases. Who needs lollies when you can store your CDs! I hope there aren’t too many more, I’m running out of cases 🙂

No, I’m not being paid for this, but I want to share it none the less, I’ve been looking at all sorts of money moneying things to complement the b5media blogs and what should I stumble upon: Affiliateprograms.com.

I read this ezine for years (probably 10??) and somewhere along the way, probably when I last changed ISP email accounts I didn’t renew and then totally forgot about it. Allan Gardyne, the writer because very sick for a while and there wasn’t a lot being put out which is probably why I forgot about it but I’m happy to say Allan’s still kicking strong. Just signed up again and looking forward to reading it again.

Its the Queens Birthday long weekend here, so I’m sitting at home doing some site scripting, fixing the wifes laptop, and a few other things, and I think to myself: why not put on some music. So I fire up Winamp (the AOL Music/ Winamp music and video lists are first rate) and I’m flicking through some of the WinAmp music sites and what do I find under alternative: Crowded House. God I must be getting old if younger generations consider Crowded House alternative. I’m still loving it though, maybe if they are alternative they must be cool again. The love never died for me. Now if only Paul Hester hadn’t done himself in I could grow old and attend reunion concerts like all those other bands from the 80’s seem to be indulging in now. Sad really. One band that for me wrote music that will be timeless.

A damn fine assessment

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This is nice, but I’m really going to have to watch the gramatical structure and use of English in my comments for now on if they are going to make the English press.

Google launches blogs search engine

Got to love the Onion for stuff like this
Onion Katrina Coverage.

I don’t think I’ve ever got anything close to this.

(screenshot from the Blog Herald WP interface)

I turned 30 yesterday. As well as doing the usual things one does when turning 30, such as vowing to quit doing bad stuff (such as drinking and regular McOz burgers from McDonalds) as the reality that you are no longer immortal starts to set in, its a good time to reflect.

I can remember that movie from Jennifer Gardner of “suddenly 30″…I saw it last year and I can totally relate. Sometimes I feel like I’ve blinked at where at 1 minute I was 14 now I’m 30. And shit, all the things I would have done differently. And of course I haven’t become a millionare yet so I’ve still got a lot of work to do.

You know I was born when Gough Whitlam was Prime Minister, when Australia still had television licenses and when computers were still run with punchards. What an amazing 30 years. The kids of today have got it so easy. But then again I miss my Amstrad 6218 and writing little programs on it in Basic. I sort of miss the sound of a gigantic dot matrix printer. I miss a time when I could play a computer game for 6 hours straight and not be disturbed.

Oh well. Only another 40-50 odd years to go. Next stop 40.