Today somebody sent me a link to MIS Australia’s article about some ridiculous filters the ever-paternalistic Australian government is trying to foist on the Australian public for our own protection. Like, thanks you guys.
Anyway I got feisty when I realised that you can’t cut and paste from the Australian Financial Review’s MISAustralia website. As soon [...]
I’m listening to an IT Conversations podcast of Rasmus Lerdorf (the guy who created PHP) speaking about PHP, and I have to say I’m pretty surprised to hear him say “I hate programming with a passion — I created PHP to avoid programming.”
Rasmus says that he wrote PHP while building a web-based system for Toronto [...]
The Buzzword
Like any good buzzword (say…agile — or is that AGILE? No, it isn’t.), Web 2.0 is overused and bastardised to mean a thousand different things by some groups of people, and at the same time it’s mocked and dismissed as just another buzzword by others.
OK so it’s March 2008 and Web 2.0 is [...]
Whoo yeah I’m excited!
About two months ago I got a new Apple Macbook Pro. I love it, it’s rad, I love using it etc. But something that’s been bugging me no end is that I don’t know the shortcut key to jump to the address bar (where you type http://…etc) in Firefox. In [...]
If patience truly is a virtue, then the guys who made these two videos are really virtuous. Check out this Line Rider insanity:
Yes it’s crazy huh? Well this is nutser in a more hardcore nerd way. A guy has built a robot that can solve a Rubik’s cube! It’s called Rubot. Apparently [...]
My shiny, expensive (for a 17″) TFT is being a moron and going bright for about a second before turning off its backlight so I can’t see a thing. I think it’s under warranty…I hope it’s under warranty.
Anyway you don’t care about that, you care about finding out what to do when your Philips [...]
Let’s see if I can blog this by email before my computer restarts automatically.
After you install some Windows Updates, Windows earnestly insists that you have to restart your computer as a matter of urgency. Apparently urgently enough to popup a dialog box that takes the focus from any other windows you may have open [...]
As a grammar nazi I notice trivial minutiae like this. Lately I’ve started using GMail to store and archive all my mail so that I can always get to my email no matter what computer I’m on. Maybe I’m lazy, or maybe I’m obsessive.
Anyway, since GMail started a couple of years ago, the [...]
Ask any red blooded Aussie and he’ll tell you. Poms are wankers. It looks like they’re finally coming to grips with themselves (hah) and celebrating their national pastime with a week long masturbate-a-thon, to be televised on Channel 4, whatever that is. Australians don’t even bother with channels below 7, except for [...]
Christian inspired me with his That’s Gold emoticon that he created for MSN to post up one of my own MSN experiences. It actually is also related to something being “gold” but I went for something a bit more generic and literal.
I’ve made a bunch of stupid, useless MSN emoticons to amuse myself [...]