28th Apr 2010

FormSpring.me

I’ve sat and watched Formspring come from nothing, and become mildly popular in 2010. It’s a a Question and Answers site, that allows someone to create a page that allows totally random people to post questions anonymously. Now instantly I could see that this was going to be nothing but trouble. There is constantly issues [...]

17th Mar 2010

Nanny State

I had been planning this story in my head for a bit, and like usual, never got around to it, but I saw this news article this morning, and it was enough to get me here. As you know our esteemed Premier Bligh of QLD suggested that the blood alcohol should be reduced from .05 [...]

7th Feb 2010

They all Scanned?

Tonight marks the end of my photo scanning regime. We all have in the back of our mind, that we need to digitise our photo and video collections. About a year ago I went out and bought a Cannon LIDE100 scanner, which is one of the most basic scanners around there, but it featured the [...]

25th Oct 2009

Facebook’s super social behavior

Since the beginning of  Facebook, the general goal has been for users of the service to “connect” with each other via the facebook website. After facebook really boomed in Australia by about 2007-2008, it was already pretty popular elsewhere, and since the growth of facebook was so enourmous they have been able to continue to [...]

8th Jul 2009

The Death Of Jacko

My Idol, Bill O’Reilly (Kidding) had a very interesting talking points memo, which I know will cause a lot of controversy, but I think hits the nail on the head with many issues around the Jackson death. I am all for respect of MJ as an entertainer, but as a person, does in death, is [...]