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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.
ABC Fucks Up Web Terminology Again
And this time it doesn’t come from someone called Tony Hate site targets Trinity’s accused killer Queensland police are monitoring a social networking site set up to vilify a man charged with the murder of eight-year-old Trinity Bates from Bundaberg. Except it’s not a social networking site that has been set up, it’s a Facebook […]
Want to see real racism?
This is from a show in the United States called “The Young Turks” on the so called “racist” KFC ad. According to the guy in the show, the ad is “stereotypical…pushing a stereotype. When I’m thinking race or something…they’re trying to make the target look bad or worse than they actually are…which it does. With […]
Is It Still Racist When Indians Kill Indians
No, that’s the caste system isn’t it? Still, given what happened in Australia during the Schapelle Corby arrest and trial, we’re not exactly innocent when it comes to xenophobia. The Advertiser: Two detained at airport over Singh murder POLICE are refusing to reveal the identities of a man and a woman intercepted at Sydney Airport […]
Hong Kong Best Food Box Hill: white people not welcome
The suburb we moved to just over a month ago borders Box Hill, the center of the Chinese community in Melbourne. Box Hill is our local shopping center, and its 3 minutes in the car. I love it: parts of it remind me of Hong Kong: a magically fascinating range of shops you don’t get […]
John Hartigan, your shipment of fail has arrived
John Hartigan, CEO of News Ltd in a speech July 1 talking about the decline of newspapers I mean, at its most basic, it?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s just bad reporting. There?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s almost no evidence. For starters, newspaper ad revenue in Australia has been growing ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äú not declining over the past 5 years as it has in the US […]
Personally, I’d blame the parents
Fourth Geelong student commits suicide: News.com.au Suicide is a terrible business, but it’s not helped by quoting mentally deficient adults in newspapers either. The opening paragraph…and the sub-headline used on the front page of news.com.au reads A GRIEVING mother has blamed the internet for the death of her 14-year-old daughter. Yes, the internet KILLED her […]
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. […]
The last unpublished This Week in Geek
I quit the weekly column at Crikey today, and they chose not to publish the last one. Why let it go to waste though. The stories that I cut before submitting (and are not below) were a Huffington Post internship selling for $13k, a new round for BlogHer, and a piece asking why The Gruen […]
Qantas Fail
SMH: Save Qantas from unfair practices, unions urge QANTAS needs saving from “unfair competition” from foreign government-backed airlines to protect Australian jobs, the ACTU will argue today when it meets the airline over its decision last week to axe up to 1750 jobs. Yes, but who saves us from Qantas extortion on routes without enough […]
GameOn, ACMI and Copyright Stupidity
We headed into town this morning to see the Australian Centre for the Moving Image’s GameOn Exhibition at Federation Square. The exhibition highlights the history of computer gaming, with displays from various eras and plenty of actual games to play. Figuring that given it’s nothing more than a big collection of arcade games I took […]