Or – The Havenots become the Haves. Preamble It’s a well known fact that when placed under restricting circumstances, all animals will look for an escape or release from the restriction. “The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.” – John Perry Barlow. ——————————————————————————————————————————– The Article IRC stands for [...]
Some of the readers of this blog will no doubt be friends and acquaintances who live in Sydney. You may be interested to know what Robyn has been up to for the last six months or so… She has been working on putting together a fund raising event for Austism Awareness, a Sydney based charity. [...]
I am sure that we have all been victims or observed the playground bully at work.And some of my readers may even have pulled wings off fly’s. I’m ashamed to admit that I did. Although I am pleased to announce that my magnifying glass torturing of ants and fly’s ceased when I was about 9.As [...]
It is an unstated fact of life that women provide the nurturing for the men that bring home the bacon. Therefore any potential male suitor needs to know exactly what the bacon is. Guys, a hint, it’s not a 1979 Holden Monaro with mag wheels and a 400 decibel stereo anymore. It’s [...]
Media barons and some of the anointed (think glitterati, freemasons or whichever other conspiracy theory you subscribe to this week); spend a lot of time gnashing teeth these days…. In the inimitable voice of Peter Sellers, “ Oh dearie dearie me, we have let de cat out of de bag”, – how the hell [...]
I used to run a BBS in the eighties. The famed KKK. Koltai's Kakadu Konnection. The technology to run a BBS required many hours of dedication and weeks of waiting for new widgets/gadgets, and hours waiting for the overnight UUCP email responses from technical support in the USA and England. I used a combination [...]
In 1994, AS CEO of Australia’s fastest growing ISP, I insisted that we install W3c cache servers at each dial-in pop around Australia. And we cached the “J” server from Palo Alto to our Portland Oregon offices and then replicated that in Sydney. All DNS queries on the Ausnet network stayed in Australia [...]
Maps have always been important.Since the era of the great adventurer explorers, Vasco de Gama, Captain James Cook, the map was the crews only link to home.The maps were the basis of explaining to the royalty what new discoveries had been made.The maps became the expansion of the empire. Google made a decision last week [...]
You know one of the things that I find amazing is that as we work through the GFC (Global Financial Crisis, if you haven't been watching) that there are people who are ignoring it totally and expecting everything to continue just as it was before the train wreck took place. I was in a meeting [...]
Most empires not based on Religion only last the lifetime of the empire builder. Historically, very few last more than a hundred years – unless the urge to procreate and defend the empire is instilled in all the peons through the fear of heavenly retribution. News Limited is a publishing empire. Unfortunately, News Limited [...]