Archive for September, 2007

Saturday, September 29th, 2007

I can do that!

If you are in Australia you’ll have seen the government’s version of this ad - this parody really hits the spot!

No Comments » - Posted in politics by Steven

Friday, September 28th, 2007

I can’t even begin to explain this.

Um… yeah…. right…. I think the expression “As dumb as a box of hammers” is vaguely suitable.

1 Comment » - Posted in secular thought by Steven

Monday, September 10th, 2007

If you’ve ever read ‘applied cryptography’ then…

You’ll find this amusing…..

No Comments » - Posted in Technology by Steven

Sunday, September 9th, 2007

Google docs (and spreadsheet)

Google docs / spreadsheets is frankly a fantastic achievement in HTML/Javascript/AJAX -  I mean, I’m frankly staggered at what they can do and how they do it, but I just can’t admire it because it seems so pointless!   Why pointless?  Because the functionality is available (in buckets) in Word, Pages or OpenOffice Writer - further more, the [...]

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Saturday, September 1st, 2007

Google phone….

Wow, it appears a $100 dollar phone by Google will be launched in both Europe and the US in a two week period, support GPS and internet and have VOIP chat so you can make free phone calls!   Click here.Soooo…. Given the mobile phone industry gets by on handset subsidies, trailing commissions and [...]

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Saturday, September 1st, 2007

NBC Universal pulls its content from iTunes

Well, this is a little moot for me, especially given the fact that I’m not in the US and can’t buy this stuff anyway - (But when has not being involved stopped me from commenting on something in the past?) NBC Universal has apparently insisted on a price doubling to Apple and in return Apple has [...]

No Comments » - Posted in Technology by Steven