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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.
It Just Keeps Getting Worse
Inquisitr: Australian Government Body Goes After Encyclopedia Dramatica In Epic Waste Of Taxpayer Dollars The creeping fascism just keeps getting worse. I mean what sort of crusader Government attempts to take legal action over a site that it has ZERO jurisdiction over? And crusader is the right term. This is a moral crusade by a […]
How long now for the Australian Car Industry?
The above chart comes from Key Automotive Statistics from the The Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research. With GM likely to file for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy before Christmas with the bailout package failing to pass the US Senate, and Chrysler and Ford not far behind it, how long now for the Australian Car Industry? […]
Fence sitting on an Australian Bill of Rights
So the Governments latest shiny media promotion tool is an Australian Bill of Rights, starting with a “nationwide consultation on human rights.” I’m not quite sure where I sit on it, at least until what’s going to be in it becomes clear. The Libs have come out hard against it naturally, and any over extension […]
Now would be a good time to invade Australia
It could be worse…like New Zealand Via SMH Navy closes for Christmas NAVY chiefs battling a staffing crisis have taken the unprecedented step of ordering a two-month shutdown over Christmas, and have told personnel with child-care problems that they can work from home. The navy has also ordered all ships not deployed on operations home […]