Archive for October, 2007

Bandwidth thief!

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

Last month I got ’shaped’ - almost two weeks of excruciatingly slow internet - it was horrible. My ISP’s usage page only gives a total, not day by day, but I’ve never gone close before so it was a bit of a surprise. I got a daily report from the ISP and it didn’t tell […]

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hot or not?

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

This week, I had occasion to play for a few minutes with the latest toy of technolusters - the Apple iTouch. Definitely one of the ‘must haves’ of the decade, obviously, if I lived in a location where the iPhone was available, then I’d probably graduate to lusting after that instead, but for now let’s […]

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who do you trust?

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

With the Australian election underway, we are being bombarded by all the usual political ads, but one particularly puzzles me… The government keep going on about how 70% of the opposition front bench have come from a union background and that this is somehow supposed to be a bad thing.
Well, thanks to wikipedia and a […]

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Sony Bravia goes stop motion

Friday, October 12th, 2007

When Sony released the now famous ad with the bouncy balls there was huge speculation about how they did it. Was it computer generated, was it faked - the discussion was quickly stopped as eye witness accounts told of the amazing photo shoot. The next ad was the exploding paint - again brilliant and memorable, […]

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