A few months ago I blogged about the cost of entertainment and how even a weekend surf at the beach was likely to cost car parking fees, barbeque facilities use fees and of course, GST on the ice, petrol, esky contents, (surf) board wax and zinc cream. In other words it’s hard for the [...]
From Wikipedia: The word Christmas originated as a compound meaning “Christ's Mass”. It is derived from the Middle English Christemasse and Old English Cristes mæsse, a phrase first recorded in 1038. In the Northern Hemisphere, this time of year is recognised as the end of shortening days and the beginning of lengthening days. The [...]
Part II In Part 1, I said that we considered that Hollywood would ignore the man in the street as irrelevent on the other side of the table at a file-sharing peace conference. That was our conclusion. That an industry body that represented the man in the street would fail in lobbying a solution. Anyone [...]
N.B.: It has been strongly suggested to me that many of the conclusions drawn by the following article are incorrect. Specifically http://blog.icann.org/2007/11/there-are-not-13-root-servers/ My knowledge of these subjrcts is somewhat aged and possibly incorrect. Readers should draw their own conclusions. I would add: http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/internet/printfriendly.htm?AT=61964200-39001260c The key to the U.S. government's influence is a master list of [...]
Tech guys, this is basic routing 101, skip down to the heading “Conclusion”. Non Tech people, you will get a headache reading this, so take two aspirin and read-on. This is something you need to know. A few years ago, the carriers in Australia ganged up on Telstra and said “Hey – who put [...]
As regular visitors to this blog would know, we have a keen interest in how networking tools and technologies are being used to aid communication. One of the principal tools that we have watched and undertaken extensive research in is how P2P is used in conjunction with content of all kinds. The positioning of the [...]
On Movie Greats (Foxtel Channel 415) last night I saw an oldie (1959) but a goodie North West Frontier so I looked up the IMDB Database (click on the title to go there), I thought movies over 20 years old were the exclusive domain of TCM. Obviously not. This particular title has been screened [...]
Over the last couple of days the European Parliament elections took place. Gordon Brown's Labour Party was decimated in the UK with them showing up worse than the ultra right British National Party in the UK. Meanwhile in Sweden, the youth vote really got out and backed the party that they care about, The Pirate [...]
Thanks, Chris, for the introduction! As reader well know, there's a lot of noise in the P2P scene at present, especially following the recent Pirate Bay case in Sweden. http://www.p2pnet.net/story/20434http://google.com/trends?q=pirate+bayhttp://thepiratebay.org/blog.php The legal muscle is coming from the US, which is the largest producer of media content in the world. So how does this sector compare [...]
Its well known that in times of economic crisis, the best thing an administration can do is take the nation to war. War boosts manufacturing, jobs, and manages to get rid of a few thousand future social welfare entitlement recipients. But what happens when the population is sick of war. What happens when [...]