Donation payment channels to Wikileaks are being choked off by political pressure. The US State Department have had words with Paypal, Visa and Mastercard and all three have withdrawn their services despite Wikileaks not breaking any laws. Check out this statement from DataCell, the hosting company that provides the payment gateway to Wikileaks donations. Then, …
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Dear Julian, about #wikileaks…
First, I want to say that you’re a bit of a hero to me. Anyone with enough passion to put their life on the line in pursuit of a cause, deserves respect. When that passion is used to bring powerful people to account for their actions, it earns my deepest admiration. Now those powerful people …
google maps announce an update
Wow! so much to post about all of a sudden. Google have just announced an update to their streetmap data, adding new streets in the rapidly expanding areas of our cities. Yay! I mean it is exciting, in fact, I think it’s the first update to the map data since they released it! Well, at …
blackberry playbook ‘sneak peek’
OK, a second post about #MoMoMelb. I’ve already had a bit of a moan about Monday’s event so you might think I’m dead against them. No, wouldn’t want to give that impression – consider this constructive criticism 😉 One of the generous sponsors of MoMoMelb is Blackberry, all these events have their sponsors – it …
a lack of location awareness
Went along to #MoMoMelb yesterday, the local chapter of a pretty active mobile industry group. Their focus is usually a bit on the carrier/commercial side of the industry, so I rarely find anything that really interests me, but this one was about Location Based Services, so naturally, I couldn’t resist. I remember the first time …
unhappy with your interest rate?
Try switching browsers!… well, it might work! I just saw this one from downloadsquad.com in my feed reader and it’s true!! Visit http://www.capitalone.com/autoloans/ using Google Chrome and you get one rate (that’s it on the left), but use Firefox (on the right) and you get a much more attractive rate! I have no idea why …
cycling, a battle on many fronts
One of those mornings when I arrive at work a little more stressed than usual because of the stupid behaviour of other road users: (and a pet hate of mine) as I approach an intersection, I am passed in the last few metres by a black commodore with tinted windows, who immediately cuts in front …
not another bottleneck!
These days, web developers tend to use a lot of hosted services. It makes sense – you don’t want to have to re-write everything and host it locally. Unfortunately, at the same time you hand off responsibility, you also hand off control. If the remote service goes down or has problems, you have problems! … …
bad driving friday
What is going on? is it a full moon or something? In my 25 minute ride to work this morning I saw three completely stupid driving moments. Riding up my own street, when a 40ish woman in a silver Camry (WOJ750) approaches a stop sign, takes a look at me – literally 5 metres away, …
Cycling with wildlife
Just wanted to share a little ‘magic moment’, I encountered on the way home last night. Riding up Royal Parade with the commuter peloton when, stopped at the lights, I noticed a woman on the footpath poking and peering at her bike. I was about to ask whether she needed a hand, when someone behind …
magpie love
Yes, it was a great day for the pies and nice to finally stick it to all the detractors, after all, I think these two ardent fans have all their teeth intact!
google, short and sweet
Two google fanboy posts in one day! Still, they’re worth it 🙂 Google have just made their short URL generating service available through a public web interface. This is not that earth shattering, I’ve been using the service via the chrome extension and it’s worked well for some time now. However, the excitement starts if …