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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.
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Food for Thought
On the dawn of my next great enterprise
The next site is ready to go. Indeed the template seems 99% there and we’re not launching yet because I never launch a site without some serious content up. It’s going up within the next 2 weeks. But I digress. The new site covers a niche. It’s opposite to The Inquisitr which was always about […]
If I was elected to Federal Parliament I’d..
Increase the CGI budget for the BOM 🙂 Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch!
Test
just a quick test to see if we’re working
What if the problem wasn’t Rugby League’s alone?
This whole debate over player behavior in Rugby League is bizarre. On the radio the other morning, John Faine went as far as comparing RL to AFL, suggesting that the problem was one of Rugby League’s alone. Of course that’s bollocks. Anyone who has ever been around a football club of any code knows that […]
Inquisitr’s 1st birthday + April stats
First birthday post on The Inquisitr here. I won’t do a huge stats post this month. Short version: 2.34m page views, just over February’s previous record of 2.31m I also managed to screw up the GAnalytics code this month, so there’s a day and a half missing in the total count. I’m guessing the total […]
Conroy’s internet filter ‘won’t stop child porn’
Courier Mail: Stephen Conroy’s internet filter ‘won’t stop child porn’ Question then, if it won’t stop child porn, why do it at all? After all, it was Conroy who continually said that the filter was all about child porn. “Black lists are needed to combat child pornography” Conroy (The West) On the overall policy: “It […]
How the RBA f&*ked over the non-bank banking sector
On March 3, the Reserve Bank in Australia (RBA) abolished bank intercharge fees on ATM’s in favor of a pay to use system where consumers pay a rate determined by the owner of the ATM. This was allegedly about reducing charges for consumers, and providing a more transparent charging regime. SMH March 24 Reserve Bank […]
ACMA Prohibited Links: where does the liability fall?
Is it illegal for Australians to link to the alleged ACMA blacklist on Wikileaks? Here’s ACMA quoted at news.com.au ACMA threatens fines of up to $11,000 a day for linking to sites on its secret censorship blacklist I’m not a lawyer, so I could be wrong, but is it actually illegal for individuals to link […]
Shame Darwin Shame
I’m sympathetic to old diggers still holding a grudge against the Japanese given the historical context, but in 2009 there’s no place for this, particularly when a lot of the message is coming from people born well and truly after WW2 who simply don’t have an excuse to hold a grudge. Age: Japanese ship unsettles […]
Sitepoint deal.
Absolute steal.
People don’t like Karma
Received an odd email yesterday from someone I hadn’t heard from in years. Someone who out of the blue cut me off despite a once close working relationship. Turns out that she got a serious dose of karma, and is rather bitter about it. Wrote to me to say as much as well. Very strange […]
Hey Bob Brown, shut the fuck up
Up to 60 people dead, hundreds, possibly thousands of homes lost, and Senator Bob Brown (leader of the Australian Greens) uses the opportunity to warn people about global warming More fires to come as climate change continues: Bob Brown Global warming is predicted to make this sort of event happen 25 per cent, 50 per […]
Autumn leaves in the middle of summer
The Age confirms what I observed the other day: THE leaves may be turning brown and falling, but it’s not an early autumn…. Melbourne’s Botanic Gardens have been undertaking a program to save plants and director Richard Barley said they were in reasonable condition, but he is concerned about the long-term prospects for Melbourne’s established […]
Melbourne Tree Armagedon?
The photo doesn’t do it justice (hard while driving) but I noticed today that around Hawthorn, Canterbury and Camberwell that all the trees are dropping their leaves….in January, and not Autumn. One of the best parts of living in the Eastern Suburbs of Melbourne is just how beautiful the streets are. In Autumn, the trees […]
We’ll all be rooned, said Kevin Rudd
Whoops. Rudd reveals $115b loss I read last week that Keating’s giving economic advice to Rudd, no surprise when you read this stuff. Sorry in advance about the language, but we’re now officially fucked. – $115 billion. Projected surplus in November was $5.7 billion. See the magic difference, and that’s before yet another stimulus package. […]
Online Inauguration Video Fail
My experience at 3:45 AEDT this morning: Hulu: audio/ video out of sync, could only be fixed by closing the stream and restarting it…then slowly the same thing would happen again CNN/ Facebook: people are gushing over this. I’m sure it was great, except that I got a message that it was full and I’d […]
Pete Murray So Beautiful
I don’t think I’ll ever grow tired of this song. PS: Grooveshark FTW. How people are writing about Lala and not Grooveshark is beyond me.
The TechCrunch Digg Club
Interesting, I’m no longer loved, but they keep on asking me to vote for them on Digg. Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch!