Thursday, September 13, 2001

Lego responds to the Business 2.0 story.
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Tuesday, September 11, 2001

Fog Lamps, n.:
Excessively (often obnoxiously) bright lamps mounted on the
fronts of automobiles; used on dry, clear nights to indicate that the
driver's brain is in a fog.

See also "Idiot Lights".
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Monday, September 10, 2001

Intellectual Property Is Not a Toy

Mindstorms, Lego's high-tech robotics kit, was an immediate hit. And after hackers cracked the operating system, it became an even bigger hit. Now Lego is left with a conundrum: Leave well enough along, or sue the bastards?
A Business 2.0 feature story.
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Saturday, September 08, 2001

A shop I pass on the way home from work called "Fashion 'R' us" has just closed down. I'm hoping they'll replace it with an outlet of "Correct use of the english language 'R' us".
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Tuesday, August 28, 2001

The next Windows version will be "Windows RG" (Really Good).
posted by Rob Wise 2:30 PM link to this post

So what do community run wireless networks and Pringles cans have in common? They make a cheap high-gain antenna for your 802.11b network.
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Sunday, August 19, 2001

The Age has a nice story up about "The Free Generation". It talks about current attitudes towards employment and how it is dominating the lives of the younger working folk.
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Wednesday, August 15, 2001

Y2K? No, Y2Khai!. The home of one self proclaimed "Loc'd out asian". Check out his 'videoz'.
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Tuesday, August 14, 2001

Ever owned a Mac? Remember the Talking Moose?
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Tuesday, August 07, 2001

Today in my inbox...

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: EPISODE II TITLE
starwars.com is pleased to announce that Star Wars: Episode II
Attack of the Clones is the full title for the next Star Wars
film, scheduled for release in 2002.

www.starwars.com

I've also been informed that Telstra have completed work on their Death Star.
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Monday, August 06, 2001

The links to the weather forecasts have been updated to accomodate for the BoM reorganising their site. Thanks for Anthony for pointing that out.
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"The story came to me from people I have come to trust, and I have looked into it closely enough to think it might have some validity. But for the sake of keeping lawyers off my back, let's just call it a rumor, and only use it as a basis for discussion."
"According to these programmers, Microsoft wants to replace TCP/IP with a proprietary protocol -- a protocol owned by Microsoft -- that it will tout as being more secure."
"I'll call it TCP/MS."

The Death of TCP/IP, By Robert X. Cringely.
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Tuesday, July 31, 2001

Ever wonder what happened to all the One.Tel employees that lost their jobs?

They're now working in a computer game.
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Wednesday, July 18, 2001

I recently finished my book, Battle Born by Dale Brown. While it did keep me from falling asleep on the train, for the most part it was pretty average. One strange thing about it was that several times it would go into quite a lot of detail to set something up and then not make any use of this. A good example of this was some guys who were getting set up for a missile launch, and then the story went to some other characters and never returned to the missile launch guys except in passing.

I am about to start on a new book, which will be appearing on the left at a later date.
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The US Air Force must be getting bored.. they've started shooting at Iraq again..
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Tuesday, July 17, 2001

Telstra customers launch class action.

It had to happen sooner or later I guess. Telstra's ADSL network is really bad, and consumers aren't going to put up with such a poor level of service for the price Telstra are charging for the product.

I would say that perhaps this will encourage Telstra to improve their service levels, but we all know they won't.
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Friday, July 06, 2001

A guy in the UK had been riding his bicycle to work for some time, when one day he found a sign on the fence he chains his bike to telling him "Bicycles found parked against or chained to these railings will be removed without further notice". Not wanting to waste a good fence, the self proclaimed "Fencemaster" decided to see what else he could chain up there.

Wired article on the story.
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Wednesday, July 04, 2001

In need of a new job? Something exciting? Enjoy travelling to far away places? Like kicking Ewoks?
The Death Star is hiring.
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Monday, June 25, 2001

Don't expect to watch tv in tassie today.. The broadcast tower on the top of Mt Wellington caught fire. WIN, Austar and Digital TV are out apparently.
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11:44:14 (153.61 KB/s) - `502_220k.rm' saved [37895484/37895484]
ADSL is sweeet.
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