Monthly Archives: October 2007

Bandwidth thief!

October 30, 2007 – 8:36 pm

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 [...]

By andrew | Posted in rant'n'rave, tech | Comments Off

hot or not?

October 21, 2007 – 10:58 am

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 [...]

By andrew | Posted in personal | Comments Off

who do you trust?

October 18, 2007 – 5:03 pm

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 [...]

By andrew | Posted in personal | Comments Off

Sony Bravia goes stop motion

October 12, 2007 – 2:07 pm

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, [...]

By andrew | Posted in fun, personal | Comments (1)