You have to give Australian ISP iiNet credit for participating in the first round of the Government’s increasingly unpopular web filtering trials. In retrospect, it was the only way to evaluate the Government’s real motivation for such a draconian tactic. According to news.com.au, iiNet have been quoted as leaving the […]
News and politics
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Well, most of the votes have been tallied and it looks certain that Queensland has returned the hapless Labor administration to power for god only knows why. This is a great time to be in politics because it’s quite clear that the voting public are complete idiots easily swayed – […]
Well, you know.. All I can say is… “Get used to it”. This is a screen cap of the front page of News.com.au with one article on the bleak future for many employees of clothing manufacturer Pacific Brands whilst two articles below, an article on money Kevin Rudd and the […]
Here is a little known fact. In December, 2007 the office of the Prime Minister and Cabinet obtained responsibility for privacy and freedom of information in Australia. From the Attorney-General’s Web site: “Under the Administrative Arrangements Order of 3 December 2007, responsibility for privacy and freedom of information, including administration […]
Finally BizTalk 2006 R3 *ahem* BizTalk 2009 has entered public beta. This means you can take an early look at the next generation of BizTalk (and, hopefully a new generation of developer tools!). Even with BizTalk 2006 R2, you are required to run Visual Studio 2005! The project is up […]
This is not part of the ongoing series of articles on SQL Data Services, but rather a call out to a Microsoft White Paper which has been published (a) here – SQL Server White Paper Template. I’d recommend, if you are interested in SQL Data Services, that you take a […]
I’ve previously voiced my opposition to the stupendously idiotic (which you can really only expect from a Labor Government) idea of a national firewall/content filtering system which would make our national Internet backbone even slower than it already (unacceptably) is. The Electronic Freedom Project and Digital Liberty Coalition have organised […]
The Rudd government’s stupid web filter is yet another example of why Australia should have not voted Labor last year. I am, of course, referring to this article in the Courier Mail which seems to have gotten very few people up in arms about Internet censorship. Just recently, Australian ISP […]
It’s time for the highly anticipated follow-up to my earlier blog entry “2008: America Decides”, so without further adieu.. Senator John McCain conceded defeat early on November 4th (US time) as an overwhelming show of support had Senator Barack Obama well clear of McCain in Electoral College votes alone. At […]
** ELECTION EDITION ** Well, those who know me well enough ought to know by now that there’s hardly a chance I’m going to stay silent on the eve of another US Presidential election. The last election, I was living in Canada and I watched all the Presidential elections. Kerry […]
So there’s been some recent controversy towards Microsoft Australian and Readify which I’d like to address. The shame of it is that I think the sentiment is misguided. Microsoft Tech.Ed (Australia) happens to highlight Readify’s contribution to the Microsoft development community in Australia – mostly by the number of Readify […]
Sometimes I wonder if this is really news, or just kindling to get me fired up.. Just in from the shores of the European Union – plans afoot to extend *retroactively* copyright on musical works by an insane 45 years. Please join me in a chorus of “you’ve-got-to-be-joking”. This means that […]
My folks are visiting Washington DC this week, so I started musing about US Presidents. This is timely, given that it’s an election year. So, I was thinking, of the choices listed below who would you (hypothetically) vote for if an election was called today, assuming the people below were […]
Well, not long ago I posted an entry on the ACTA copyright trade agreement and now there is this article from canada.com indicating that Canada is attempting to join the party. For shame. The article mentions a lot more detail than any other articles I have read – I’m inclined […]
There’s a new document posted at WikiLeaks here which would effectively propose a plurilateral (multi-national) strict top-down enforcement of protection of intellectual property by criminalizing non-profit distribution of intellectual property (note: this is not considered piracy because no one is making a profit). Typically worded (and titled) as the "anti-counterfeiting trade […]