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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.
Australian Winter Olympics Success A Sign Of Affluence?
We’ve won our 4th ever Winter Olympics Gold Medal: The Age. Of course everyone in Australia knows who won the first one, and it will be a story for the ages: Steven Bradbury is 4th in the final and looks out of it, and then the 3 people ahead crash into each other, allowing him […]
Ian Thorpe a drug cheat?
SMH: “Thorpe’s drug test ‘positive’“ This one will be interesting. Thorpe is an Australian Hero and now it looks like he was taking persian rugs…the irony of it all.
Vale Peter Brock 1945-2006
Peter Brock, veteran racing car driver, many, many times winner of the Bathurst 1000 has died today doing what he loved doing most: racing. According to the SMH, Brock was behind the wheel of a car competing in the Targa West rally and crashed into a tree at Gidgegannup, outside of Perth at lunch time […]
September glory
The score says it all: Fremantle 18.10 (118) West Coast 8.13 (61). The underdogs whip the silvertail, drink driving, gangster socialising Weagles. GO THE DOCKERS!
Italy 1 Australia 0, Australia robbed.
At 12:52 am WST, Australia loses to Italy in the last second by a dodgy penalty in the goal box awarded to Italy. Simply, we were robbed. I wonder how much Italy paid the referee. Tags: World Cup Update: Australia agrees, we were robbed.
Here we go, here we go, here we go…..
Australia 2 v Croatia 2. Australia advances to the knock out round of 16 playing Italy 11pm (+8 GMT) Monday, which means unlike this morning where I slept through my 3am alarm, I can stay up and watch it! YOU LITTLE RIPPER! And I love this SMH Graphic! Tags: socceroos, World Cup
In response to Aaron
Aaron has posted this lovely photo of me: and my only response: Tags: World Cup
Watch the World Cup in Ascii
There’s nothing quite like watching the World Cup live via Telnet and rendered in Ascii 🙂 (via el Reg) Tags: World Cup
YOU BLOODY BEAUTY!
The Score says it all: Australia 3 v Japan 1 GO THE SOCCEROOS!!!!!!! Next stop: Brazil.
Now that’s a Six Pack
Yikes. Australian runner Sarah Jamieson, who got a Silver in the 1500m at the Commonwealth Games. It’s the first event I actually watched at the games on TV. I’d decided to have a break from the computer tonight. It lasted about 20 minutes. The race though was quite entertaining. The hype before hand was that […]
We’re off to Germany, you beauty!!!!
What more can I say, that YOU BLOODY RIPPER!!!! I watched the penalty shoot out, it was Soccer at its best, and for the first time in my entire lifetime (the last time Australia went to the world cup was 74, I was born in 75) we have made the WORLD CUP! YOU BEAUTY!!!!!! SMH […]
The demise of the great white hope
One of the images that struck me in the lead up to the Olympics is US swimmer Michael Phelps telling the word that he would be winning 8 gold medals at the Olympics in a fashion that can only be described as arrogant to the max. He was going to win everything he competed him. […]
The lost spectators of the Athens Olympics
Im watching far too much olympics at the moment and not enough time blogging, if the Blog Herald is a little short in the next two weeks you’ll know why. One thing strikes me though, with the exception of the Swimming, the stands at ALL the other events are nearly completely empty. In Sydney you […]