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”

It was a long weekend here in Australia and I’ve been slowly buying bits a pieces of ebay and other places to build my own PVR. I was eyeing either GB PVR or MythTV to run it and at last had everything ready to go. Guess what, 3 days later and still no show. Why? A cheap TV card, a Leadtek WinFast 2000 XP thing-a-me-bob, which works great with the crappy software provided with the card, but doesn’t actually work with anything else. I’ve download every open source media centre/ pvr software out there, and a couple of commercial trials as well, and NOT ONE WORKS WITH IT!!!!!
Just goes to show you get what you pay for. Now if I can only find a Hauppauge PVR 250 which is not the MCE version I’ll bet set.

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…..

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 get the memorial site taken down due to some politcal correct rubbish about invasions and the like. Sad what the world is coming to…after all, would they have preferred the French?

We’ll, I’m not sure if I’m about to become a WordPress guru, but with all the bad things going on around WordPress at the moment, I cant think of a better time to help fight the good fight and stand up for this great peice of blogware, so despite contributing anonymously in the past, I’ve finally registered at the WordPress support forums, and I’ve got to say, theres some good people on these boards, and helping others get to know the system is rather fun. I’ve had to watch my language, but other than that, why not!

+ I’ve also donated $20 USD to WordPress today, its pretty clear they need it. I’d encourage other WordPress users to donate as well.

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 sides for or against, but I have one observation, proabably made by others, isn’t letting her starve to death cruel and unusual punishment? I mean, if the State has ruled that she should die then wouldn’t pumping her full of morphine be a nicer way of doing it? Personally I do have some concerns about the state allowing the death to happen full stop but essentially torturing someone, leaving them to an excrutiating death is a terrible thing to do. Am I advocating euthanasia, well no, but essentially in turning off the her life line US courts have essentially advocated for voluntary euthanasia, but if you must have it, shouldn?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢t it be done in the most humane way possible? I mean, seriously, I wouldn?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢t let a dog starve to death, brain damaged or not, and neither should the State of Florida or Schiavo?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢s husband. Pump her full of drugs and be done with it, or put the foodline back in.

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 is up from positions as low as 4 in the last 6 months, and more importantly, like MSN, puts the Blog Herald ahead of its main competitors, of which I admit there aren’t a lot, and I’d like to stay that way for ever!

Yahoo! still maintains its position as the dumbest of the Top 3 search engines, continuing to return Blogger at 1 and Dave Winers Scripting News at 2, neither of which deal specifically with blog news. Topix sneaks in at 3 yet Google News is listed at 4! The poor old Blog Herald sits at 8. I might need to sharpen up my Yahoo! SEO reading over easter, but then again, who needs Yahoo! when you’ve got Google and MSN.

The search engine in the spotlight at the moment Ask Jeeves isn’t even worth asking, returning the Blog Herald at 7 after 6 non-blog news related sites.

Enjoy Easter everyone!

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 is seeding file-sharing services with files that, when downloaded, exploit a Windows security vulnerability to install spyware on your PC. And that?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢s not all. According to the PC World report:

When we played the modified files, the License Acquisition dialog box showed a page containing ads and quickly spawned more IE windows, each containing a different ad.

Not only did we get bombarded with unwanted ads, but one of the ad windows in a video file tried to install adware onto our test PC surreptitiously, while another added items to our browser’s Favorites list and attempted to change our home page. And a window from the original music file asked to download a file called lyrics.zip, which contained the installer for 180search Assistant, commonly categorized as an adware program.

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!!!

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.