To the dummies who don’t want a carbon tax… Do you realise that we, the Australian taxpayer, currently PAY the fossil fuel industry $9 billion dollars a year? They are a drain on your pocket to the tune of around $450 per person, per year. Of course they don’t want you to stop! We are …
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no google, I don’t like that!
In the wake of my previous post, I was checking out some of the photos on Google maps of Sydney Road, one of my photos came up first, which was nice, but then I started navigating around the nearby photos… they were all crappy photos of a shoe store! I probably missed this addition, but …
Can someone please explain this?
Prompted by this tweet, I experienced this behaviour. I am not normally given to conspiracy theories, and apparently this is a hangover from when the wikileaks server was down and google dropped results from its index, but that was ages ago – why hasn’t it been fixed?
Big retail never got it
Gerry Harvey (and @harveynormanau ) has become the visible target of the online shopper recently with his comments regarding GST and a ‘level playing field’. Technically, he’s correct, but his approach and methods work best for a certain demographic on shallow, sensationalist popular television – in the faster moving, better informed blogosphere, he’s experienced a …
kids were much cooler in my day
It’s true! sadly. If you’re not convinced, just check these two images from NASA. They depict global temperature anomalies over the course of a decade. The top one is the most recent: 2000-01-01 to 2009-12-31, while the bottom is a decade from my youth: 1970-01-01 to 1979-12-31. Quite the little climate vandals, ain’t we?Click through …
Put the #wikileaks heat on your bank
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 The US State Department have had words with Paypal, Visa and Mastercard and all three have withdrawn their services despite Wikileaks not breaking any laws.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, …
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 …
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! … …