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Saint Shenanigans

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

I was born a Prot­est­ant. I will more than likely die one, too. Intense excav­a­tion into fam­ily his­tory has shown me that my genes are Prot­est­ant for at least 8 gen­er­a­tions on both sides. Bap­tised and con­firmed a Lutheran, I was taught a thing or two about the most suc­cess­ful (not the first) split from […]

Speed, Quality, Cheap. Pick any Two.

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

The Hon. Peter Gar­rett, mem­ber of Mid­night Oil and mem­ber for Kingsford-Smith is presently under-the-gun over the man­age­ment of the Energy Effi­cient Homes Pack­age.
It seems out of the old adage: speed, qual­ity, cheap: pick any two that the depart­ment chose just speed.
From ABC1’s Q & A last night, mem­bers of both sides of the house […]

Sydney Harbour Bridge, Southern Side

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

Con­tinu­ing my theme of ‘syn­thing the Sydney Har­bour Bridge: on Tues­day I took a series of 24 pho­tos on my Palm Treo Pro cam­era of the bridge. Includ­ing a seagull:

ISP Filters">A Pragmatic Proposal: ISP Filters

Friday, November 14th, 2008

Dear Aus­tralian Fed­eral Politi­cians
re: Aus­tralian ISP Inter­net Fil­ters
As a par­ent, a tech­no­logy industry vet­eran and cit­izen who works via the Inter­net, I feel it is my duty to provide a prag­matic per­spect­ive on the Fed­eral Government’s pro­posed plans to adopt Man­dat­ory Fil­ter­ing of Aus­tralian Inter­net Ser­vice Pro­viders (ISPs) for the bene­fit of Child Safety.
Cur­rent statements […]

US Political Blogger in Australia">Matt Bai, US Political Blogger in Australia

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

Join Gov­ern­ment, busi­ness lead­ers and polit­ical blog­gers for Australia’s inaug­ural Polit­ics & Tech­no­logy Forum, brought to you by Microsoft Aus­tralia.
Quick details: Date: 25th June 2008, Time: morn­ing, Loc­a­tion: Hyatt, Can­berra
For the first Forum, Microsoft is host­ing key­note speaker Matt Bai, author and polit­ical writer for New York Times magazine. Matt will address the rise of […]

TV">Laurel Papworth: On Morning TV

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Laurel, Australia’s expert on Social Net­works has appeared on Aus­tralian Morn­ing TV
Don’t for­get us little people when you become fam­ous, Laurel!
(This is Laurel before she became MSM famous)

Decimation of the Smart One Thousand

Monday, February 4th, 2008

Before you get all con­cerned about the word ‘decim­a­tion’, read the ety­mo­logy.
OK, now we see we are get­ting 10 groups of 100 people think­ing (thanks for cor­rect­ing my spelling, Uncle Mike) deeply about top­ics import­ant to the future of Aus­tralia in a radio-sound-byte year (why not 2022. Nah, 2020 just sounds bet­ter)
On the inter­net side […]

Fibre to the Dunny

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

 
(ori­ginal image)
With Aus­tralian Politi­cians using “Fibre to the Node” and “Fibre to the Home” as elec­tion ploys, I think It’s Time to raise the issue to a new level:
Fibre to the Dunny.
We should not rest until every Dunny in Aus­tralia has Fibre. Face it, that’s where the best brows­ing occurs.
Also, with Australia’s rising colorectal can­cer, an […]

Australian Federal Police: Cost of Nigerian Scams

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

134 out of 139 people in Queens­land con­tac­ted by Aus­tralian Fed­eral Police have fallen for Nigerian Scams. Lot­tery scams.
They sent a little more than $18 mil­lion dol­lars to Nigeria. That is $135,000 per per­son.
Account­ant, Law­yers, Doc­tors. Not people you would expect to fall for “get-rich-quick” schemes. I hope their tax, law and med­ical expert­ise is […]

Follow the Eyeballs. And the Money.

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

At the Hill and Know­lton “Sur­viv­ing and thriv­ing in the next dec­ade — Tech­no­logy Pub­lish­ing” Break­fast Bytes this morn­ing, a group of emin­ent pan­el­ists in pic­ture above, from the left:

James Tuck­er­man – Pub­lish­ing Editor, Ant­Hill. New rel­at­ively magazine about ideas, money and skills. Previously more print than online, but adding new online pro­jects later in 2007.
Heather Craven — […]

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