December 13, 2010 – 10:20 am
It’s true! sadly. If you’re not convinced, just check these two images from NASA. They depict global temperature anomalies over the course of a decade. The top one is the most recent: 2000-01-01 to 2009-12-31, while the bottom is a decade from my youth: 1970-01-01 to 1979-12-31. Quite the little climate vandals, ain’t we?Click through [...]
December 9, 2010 – 12:07 pm
Donation payment channels to Wikileaks are being choked off by political pressure. The US State Department have had words with Paypal, Visa and Mastercard and all three have withdrawn their services despite Wikileaks not breaking any laws. Check out this statement from DataCell, the hosting company that provides the payment gateway to Wikileaks donations. Then, [...]
December 8, 2010 – 10:11 pm
First, I want to say that you’re a bit of a hero to me. Anyone with enough passion to put their life on the line in pursuit of a cause, deserves respect. When that passion is used to bring powerful people to account for their actions, it earns my deepest admiration. Now those powerful people [...]
November 10, 2010 – 9:19 pm
Wow! so much to post about all of a sudden. Google have just announced an update to their streetmap data, adding new streets in the rapidly expanding areas of our cities. Yay! I mean it is exciting, in fact, I think it’s the first update to the map data since they released it! Well, at [...]
November 10, 2010 – 8:14 pm
OK, a second post about #MoMoMelb. I’ve already had a bit of a moan about Monday’s event so you might think I’m dead against them. No, wouldn’t want to give that impression – consider this constructive criticism One of the generous sponsors of MoMoMelb is Blackberry, all these events have their sponsors – it just [...]
November 9, 2010 – 5:41 pm
Went along to #MoMoMelb yesterday, the local chapter of a pretty active mobile industry group. Their focus is usually a bit on the carrier/commercial side of the industry, so I rarely find anything that really interests me, but this one was about Location Based Services, so naturally, I couldn’t resist. I remember the first time [...]
November 4, 2010 – 9:23 am
One of those mornings when I arrive at work a little more stressed than usual because of the stupid behaviour of other road users: (and a pet hate of mine) as I approach an intersection, I am passed in the last few metres by a black commodore with tinted windows, who immediately cuts in front [...]
November 3, 2010 – 4:08 pm
These days, web developers tend to use a lot of hosted services. It makes sense – you don’t want to have to re-write everything and host it locally. Unfortunately, at the same time you hand off responsibility, you also hand off control. If the remote service goes down or has problems, you have problems! … [...]
October 29, 2010 – 9:23 am
What is going on? is it a full moon or something? In my 25 minute ride to work this morning I saw three completely stupid driving moments. Riding up my own street, when a 40ish woman in a silver Camry (WOJ750) approaches a stop sign, takes a look at me – literally 5 metres away, [...]
Really saddens me to see recent stories regarding new marine parks and sanctuaries lead to ill informed, populist, knee jerk responses from fellow fishermen. Firstly: conservationists, or ‘greenies’, the word so many fishermen spit out without any clue as to the meaning. What do greenies want? In this case, they want better living conditions for [...]
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