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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.
How to get a new home connected to ADSL 2 in Australia without a 1 month+ wait
See previous post for context. So I finally conceded that the only way I’d jump to the first position was to get a phone line connected. We take possession on the 2nd (July, it’s the 29th June as I type this) and it turns out that Telstra can connect a physical line on the 3rd. […]
Wanted: Opposition leader, apply to the Liberal Party
News.com.au: Malcolm Turnbull’s political career has been smashed in just one week, and senior Liberals believe there could be moves within the party to remove him as Opposition Leader within days or weeks. It takes an awful lot of specialness to completely fuck up Utegate, and yet Malcolm Turnbull has. Instead of Rudd and Co […]
Apple 10.5.7 fail follow up: it wuz Safari that did it
Follow up to this Apple fail post: Leopard 10.5.7 causes freezing, overheating issues I haven’t completely stopped my Macbook Pro from freezing, but I have all but (least it has happened only once since I worked out what might be happening.) Write this on all over the Apple forums: it was Safari that did it. […]
Winter wonderland
The hail was so persistent for so long it woke me up at about 4:30am. These pictures taken after first light at 7:30am so it had started to melt; at 5am though everything was covered in a thick blanket
The last semi-regular Inquisitr numbers
This post is the last-semi regular report of The Inquisitr numbers, and not just because the post before this was the 1500th in this incarnation of duncanriley.com (there was one before.) I’m all for transparency, but likewise the figures wont be that exciting now. We roughly got to where we wanted to be (and it’s […]