Wendy Francis of the Orwellianly-titled Family First political party went online last night and blasted Australia’s homosexual community, so I’m standing on my own online soapbox to respond, as well as sending it through her website feedback form.
Monday 09th August 2010
Poor AOL just can’t catch a break. I attribute it to the fact they changed their logo when their old one was infinitely more cool… and for some other reasons.
Sunday 08th August 2010
Saturday 07th August 2010
And if Optus had checked their records, they’d have seen I already did this and could have saved themselves the money of sending this message! Its funny sometimes to see companies ruled by indiscriminate computer systems that don’t have common sense programmed into them.
Friday 06th August 2010
Today’s Wait, What Screenshot? (hey, that rhymes) comes to us from my installation of Mozilla Thunderbird, taken around lunchtime. According to Thunderbird, it downloaded 4,294,967,295 new messages during that session. There’s a bad pun about the sound a crazy bird makes in there somewhere.
Must be all my hate mail, or all my date rejection letters.
Thursday 05th August 2010
Time to celebrate this evening? Some on Twitter seem to be already.
Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan has suggested changes could be made to the Federal Government’s proposed internet filter. “Stephen Conroy… has announced some changes to the filter – he’s talking to industry about those now,” he said.
I won’t be. I’m with Greens Senator Ludlam on this, Labor hasn’t said they’re scrapping it, they’ve just made vague references to "changing" it, whatever that means. We don’t want a reworking, we want a thorough repudiation. Keep the corks in the bottles, folks. :(
SBS News is reporting that some US billionaires have pledged at least 50% of their wealth to charity through a campaign started by Warren Buffett.
A noble cause, but those billionaires could have made an infinitely more positive impact by running ethical and sustainable business that perhaps would have made less money, than robbing us and giving some of it back later. CEOs could (if they wanted to) use their influence to affect the world in positive ways; when they retire their money is no better than anyone else’s.
This could be my late hippy mum speaking through me, but isn’t it about time we stop valuing a company based on its profits and more on its impact?
It’s that all too familiar language that signifies the de facto end of a project: Google is cancelling any further development of Wave, its platform that was supposed to revolutionise email, chat, wikis, collaboration and grilled cheese sandwiches.
Wednesday 04th August 2010
I just finished the transition from SegPub to Net Logistics, as you can tell from my terribly sophisticated line-up of icons above!
