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NBN Numbers
Duncan Riley has made some interesting comments about the cost of the governments announced fibre optic broadband network. He argues that the cost is too high for what we are getting and that it will be obsolete at least by 2038. While I agree the cost does seem rather high, I believe we have to do …
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Denmark Censorship List Leaked
Denmarks censorship list has been leaked today, two days after Thailands censorship list was leaked. From the leaked comments: Most sites on the list are still censored (i.e must be on the current list), even though many have clearly changed owners or were possibly even wrongly placed on the list. T …
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Minister Conroy on: Promoting a civil and confident society online
The government has created a blog post wanting to get feedback on the Internet filter, which can be found here. Comments are enabled and I encourage everyone opposed to the filter to make their thoughts known. Below is my contribution to the debate. We are happy to have an open debate about these te …
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Australian Sex Party
There is a new Australian Political Party that has launched. They appear to have a solid list of relevant policy initiatives, however theres one that stood out to me that I strongly disagree with. I thought it would be good to give them some feedback (sent via email): Hi, I like the comprehensive li …
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Jury Duty
Note: This ended up being rather long-winded and it took me a good couple of months to get around finishing. Ive always been curious about doing jury duty to get an insight into our justice system. I havent known anyone who has done it before so always assumed the odds of me being chosen were quite …
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Are you interested in politics?
I am looking for some feedback from young Australians. so please point some blog posts this way and/or make some comments As a young Australian I follow the media and politics fairly closely, but I feel far removed from politics. I have handed out how-to vote cards for a few elections and am happy t …
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Free Hugs
Just heard about this on JJJ and thought it was great. SickPuppies were originally unearthed by JJJ and are now finalising a new album in Los Angeles. This is a video they randomly put on YouTube and within 7 days it has received 1.5million views and the guys are expected to appear on Oprah among ot …
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The Fisherman and The Investment Banker
via Bluinc.com The American investment banker was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large yellow fin tuna. The American complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to …
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Telstra (SELL)
Telstra is in trouble. I have thought this for a while, but never really written down why - so heres a couple of reasons: 1. They have had a monopoly for years and earnings have peaked with fixed phone calls (telstras main revenue stream) 2. Sensis is terrible. It wont ever meet its unreasonable rev …
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Victoria Park
I live very close to Victoria Park, but as we have 3 race tracks in Adelaide I can never remember its name. I have a theory that if I blog the name of the park - I wont forget it! Anyway, I did some searching to at least make this post informative, and the only place I could get any information abou …
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iiNet trading halt
iiNet (IIN.ASX) has been under a self imposed trading halt for most of this week, with wild speculation occuring. Initial news centered around issues of iiNets borrowings from Wesptac: The Australian Financial Review said it understood that Westpac had been in contact with the company in recent days …
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AWB Entrances
The Australian media has been following the AWB, Wheat-for-wheapons scandal with surprising clarity in detail, with events peaking this morning as John Howard fronted the Cole inquiry. There are many excellent articles available online outlining the issues, The Australian newspaper being one of the …
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Location Based Mobile Services
Ive been forced back into doing some Java programming of late, which although unfortunate, got me thinking again about programming on Mobile phones - as Java is the platform of choice on most new handsets. Some investigation showed there is a new Location based API that appeared sometime in 2005 tha …
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Superbowl Videos
The superbowl has a history of bringing out the best in media companies producing adverts. Often with unlimited budgets and costing millions of dollars the adverts are almost a spectacle in their own right. Google has made every advert available for viewing through Google Video. Although it may seem …
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DOS is back in
MS-DOS appears to be hip once again. The Raconteurs, a new group that contains Jack White and Brendon Benson leading on guitars and vocals has the best website Ive seen in a while. It harps back to the good old days of green text on black background, with all controls being the keyboard. Check it ou …
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Example interface
I couldnt resist and am demoing up an example interface for a hypothetical web-based RSS reader.Features to note: Filters on the right work just like Googles tag concept. Each RSS feed can have multiple tags associated with it The major filters are at the top with more specific ones listed at the …
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New tsunami pictures
New tsunami pictures have been found and are up on CNN. They show the wave as it approaches Khao Lak, Thailand. Unfortunately the couple died during the tsunami. CNN Pictures
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RSS (Again)
Just to follow on from my previous post about RSS. Im currently using SAGE, which appears to use Firefoxs bookmarks to store links to my RSS feeds. When I click on the feed it downloads it and applies a style to the XML from my local machine and displays it through a tab in Firefox. It actually see …
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New Blog - Welcome
Welcome to my new blog. Why another one when I host my own already? I feel left out in the bloggersphere and want to use the same tools as most other bloggers. I have been doing a lot of work lately on my projects; QWAD Framework, QWAD Chat and now in search of a cool project to put these tools to …
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Semantic Web: Who should we tag today?
Ive been doing some further reading surrounding the semantic web. I feel FeedTagger has something important to offer and I am trying to work out how and why. Read on for my thoughts on what will make the semantic web tickAt the moment technorati allows bloggers to specify tags that relate to particu …
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