Year: 2005

  • Live 8 banner

    There’s even a cool techorati banner for live bloggers. If you care please comment on any of the Live 8 posts and also add your name to the Live 8 List TO: The 8 most powerful leaders in the world 50,000 people are dying, needlessly, every day of extreme poverty. At this year’s G8 summit…

  • Live 8 is on now

    For those lucky enough to subscribe to Foxtel, Live 8 is on Fox 8 right now. Even better for digital subscribers it is on the timeshifted Fox 8 +2 as well. Thank god Molly Meldrum is finished for now. Does anybody in the key music demographic in Australia care bout Molly? Maybe their parents did……

  • Rebranding Mandrake Linux

    I’m not sure which is company is dumber, Mandrive Linux or King Features Syndicate. From wikipedia’s Mandrake Linux entry: In February 2004 MandrakeSoft lost a court case against Hearst Corporation, owners of King Features Syndicate. Hearst contends that MandrakeSoft is infringing upon King Features’ trademarked character Mandrake the Magician. The word Mandrake is not unique…

  • Nasty Javascript loop

    Today I also came across a nasty endless Javascript loop. This sucker can trap IE, Firefox and Opera in an endless loop requiring you to kill the application via task manager or kill the process if using one of the *nix. Javascript is really useful on the sites I regularly visit. But I’d like to…

  • Abandon client services

    After writing about Products or Services I can across Jeffrey Zeldman‘s Should you blog have a business When Coudal Partners, frustrated by the limited options available for custom CD and DVD packaging, solved their problem by inventing Jewelboxing, it occured to them that people who read their blog might like the product as well. They…

  • Meet Joe Blogs

    I subscribe to the Sydney Morning Herald‘s Technology weekly. Sometimes I don’t know why I bother with Main Stream Media. Their fact checking is so dubious – see below. Mentioned this week but datelined 31 May and archived 30 May is Meet Joe Blogs with the teaser The “blogosphere” is exploding, with millions of blogs…

  • Corey Rudl – A legend dead at 34

    I just found out that Corey Rudl, Internet marketing pioneer and genius, died in a speedway track accident on Thursday US time. Corey was only 34 years old and I’m told recently married. I missed meeting him at the YEO Dubai University last year. Friends said it was one of many highlights of an amazing…

  • Podcasting Content is King

    Andy Grace has a technology spot on The Cage breakfast show on Triple M in Sydney. As an aside, clever marketing kudos to the network who run The Cage in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide with one lineup, but have a totally different lineup for The Cage in Brisbane Andy Grace wrote and interesting piece on…

  • Email update advice available

    For a long time I thought RSS was the best and only way to notify readers of updates to the blog, especially in this world of ever rising spam. However I’ve changed my mind. I believe in removing barriers to communication. I’ll occassionally rally against the dumbing down of modern life, but I value the…

  • And then I made an Instant Film

    Hot on the heels of my Rapid Filmmaking post, I attended a weekend conference where we made an instant films in teams of five and six. It was facilitated by Dimensional Thinking I don’t like being on a film set. The perfectionist in me doesn’t like the pressure to get the shot in one take,…