As it turns out, the idea of filtering the Internet is hardly a new one. In the mid 90s, the CSIRO was asked to investigate the feasibility of filtering Australia’s Internet traffic. The final report is available for reading here. You may be surprised (or not) to learn that the […]
Well, we’re slowly getting a new home set up. Live Spaces has been a convenient, albeit very restrictive, home for the past four and a half years but it has proven to be just too damned restrictive. With the recent removal of the stats tab, and the fact we can’t […]
Well this is my first post to the new site from Live Writer. Hopefully, if all goes well, you will be reading this without any hassles. I’ve got to say that configuring IIS 6, PHP 5.2 and WordPress 3.0 has been a very time consuming and sometimes baffling process for […]
Hi There! As I mentioned in my “regular” blog – on live spaces – I’m going to be moving all that content over to this site. Please be patient, it’s going to be a lengthy migration I fear. Obviously this is a WordPress site, so I’m hoping to use all […]
It’s been a while since I last put together a decent post – apologies – I’ve been quite literally up to my neck in computer components, outfitting some new hardware. This has killed a lot of my free time while I research and consume the latest information on hardware. You’d […]
http://delimiter.com.au/2010/06/11/govt-may-record-users-web-history-email-data/ Sorry, but this is a very important Proclamation of Doom, and thus had to be posted ASAP. The Australian Federal Government is apparently quite serious about a proposal to requires all Internet Service Providers to store precise data on what their subscribers are doing online. “The Federal Government has […]
Hi There! It’s been a busy time, and I realise I’ve been a bit remiss in getting some new posts up on the site. In recent weeks, I’ve been considering migrating away from the rather limited Windows Live platform and onto my own custom blog (or Word press etc). For […]
In light of Empire magazine’s compilation of their 50 greatest TV shows of all time article [1] it had me lament the loss of good, even great TV and its replacement (reality TV). I’ve previously remarked on this previously, however I’d like to address Empire’s list with my own views. […]
Just recently I came across this enlightening piece from gizmodo [1], an op-ed from a British comedian who freely admits to consuming rich media services across a wide variety of sources (both legal and infringing). This is exactly the type of poor end consumer experience I’ve been bemoaning for years. […]
Hello there, I’d like to take a moment of your time and ask you whether you think this site violates any of the following criteria (leave a comment, if you could please): Disallowed site behavior The landing page must be available and reliably respond even at peak use times. The […]
Hot off the press – a release of the much anticipated Power Tools for Visual Studio/Team Foundation Server 2010 – April 2010 (RTM). This release enables some of my favourite TFS goodness including: Alerts Explorer, Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010 Best Practices Analyzer, Custom Check-in Policy Pack, Process Editor, Team […]
Sorry about the delays in new posts – we’re anticipating moving into a new apartment early next week and as a result I’ve been postponing the amount of time usually reserved for new blog posts. Regular posts should resume either later this coming week, or the following week (as I […]
For those of you who work with or live in a country which uses a language other than English, you may have need for variations on input. As you may know, I’m learning Mandarin which means I’m making use of Traditional and Simplified Chinese. When setting up my Windows 7 […]
So by now you must have read that Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2010 has been released to market. What you may not necessarily be aware of are the different “flavours” of Visual Studio. The 2005 Edition of Visual Studio comprised of Professional, Tools for Office and Team Suite (Architect, Development, Database […]