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Gotye: What a nice bloke
Last week I had a whinge about trying to buy one of Gotye's albums online and failing. A day later I got an email from the man himself! I was very disappointed to hear about your shoddy experience wit…
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iReasonablePlan
I've been thinking over the weekend about my post about the iPhone and the crap plans being offered. The problem is the lack of data covered by these plans. I reckon the stories in about a week's time…
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How to be popular
Break SHMBO's hair dryer while shrinking tubing for your new LED bike light system. Fortunately she has another, travel, one. Not as good, but it shrunk the tubing eventually.
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Petrol prices are going up: Yay!
I watched SBS's Insight on Tuesday this week. It's a discussion programme and this week's episode was about petrol prices. You couldn't find a more shameless group of rent seekers than the majority of…
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iCrapPlan
Mark Pesce and Stilgherrian are talking about starting their own telco. More power to 'em, I say, but I suspect they're in for a rude shock. Running a telco isn't as easy as it looks. The big telcos m…
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Whinging?
Michael Davies reckons I was whinging when I gave a method for people to filter out Twitter and other annoying crap from their feed from Planet Linux Australia. WTF? I gave a method for people to not…
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Feed minus Twitter crap
There's been some complaints on Planet Linux Australia about various Microblogging annoyance. I've been toying with Yahoo Pipes recently, and one of its features is regex filtering of feeds. That's ve…
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Why steal music?
Wow, can't imagine why people might download music illegally when the legal avenues are just so easy. I just tried to buy Gotye's first album Boardface from Creative Vibes. First, their system charged…
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Planning Alerts
The amazing people in and around the mySociety have a new project in test. PlanningAlerts.com allows you to enter an email address, a UK postcode and a region that you want to watch. Any planning appl…
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Marching Catholics
Is it just me or does marching thousands of rabid Catholics through the heart of gay Sydney seem somewhat similar to Nationalist Protestants marching through Catholic areas of Belfast? I suppose the p…
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Blank Reg
I love the fact that the Secretary of the New South Wales Council for Civil Liberties is named Stephen Blanks. It just goes to show that Max Headroom really was a documentary showing the world twenty…
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Good beer, bad chicken
A few weeks ago I got an email from the Malt Shovel Brewery about a beer and food tasting at their brew pub on King Street Wharf. Best thing, of course, was the price: free. I signed myself and Holly…
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Dear King Pig
My mate Don sent a letter to the King Pig and the Special Minister for World (Catholic) Youth Day in NSW in regards to his freedom to annoy Catholics. Dear Minister It was my intention to be involved…
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Wow, there's still web agencies who think Flash is cool
Wow, I can't believe there's still web agencies who do everything in Flash. This technique is so effective, the above is what Google can see of their site. That's right, the title. Supposedly Adobe is…
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Why direct action is important
The Guardian has a great piece about direct action group Plane Stupid, who are all about preventing the expansion of the aviation industry in the face of climate change. It presents a passionate and w…
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Carbon pricing and petrol
Australia is in the midst of deciding how its eventual carbon taxation and trading environment will work, and the conservatives have switched back to their default climate change denial position, as t…
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Best mailbox ever
This is way cool. Apparently it's over in Fowler Street. Steve pointed out that it's probably cheaper to buy a VCR than a mailbox.
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Sniff browser history
Niall Kennedy has a really clever JavaScript hack to sniff a user's browser history. It's a pretty cool hack, but also a little scary since any web page you load can find out what pages you've been to…
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Liam Colm Askins
On Friday afternoon, Liam Colm Askins came into the world a bit early. The birth was straightforward and both mother and baby are doing well. Being a bit early, Liam will have to spend a few weeks in…
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Big brother IS watching
I've been toying with an amazing new web analytics tool called ClickTale. It tracks everything a user does as they interact with your site, so as well as the usual heat maps and the like, you can actu…