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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.
When folks representing the RSPCA ask you to game Google
So anyone who knows me knows I hate email.. I even had an email from someone who spammed this blog recently who (and I’m not making this up) complained that having had second thoughts, he couldn’t delete his spam comment. I probably should publish those emails at some stage, but some dopey prick promoting Sri […]
Age shall not weary them, nor the Google News forget
Just for a change, I’ll bag someone other than the mainstream media. Google News. Its Valentines Day, Feb 14. 11:15am in the morning at I’m typing this. And what is Google News showing in its latest Victoria news section? (hint, look at the dates of the stories)
Google Street View blurs my letterbox
Google Australia has launched Google Street View locally (via Simon Goudie). Privacy issues perhaps, but letter boxes have all been blurred out. Here’s our house in Google Street View: Here’s a close up of the letter box Interestingly, they’ve really gone all out in the coverage of Street View. My old house complete with sales […]