Amazing isn't it. We are a week in to a new Prime Minister. We are perhaps only days away from a Federal Election being announced. The probability is that there will be a deal done with the miners over the super profits tax before an election is announced… Why else would you announce an election, [...]
In an article in the Sydney Morning Herald this morning: Broadband billions left hanging as wireless bites back Ari Sharp January 13, 2010 SMH http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/broadband-billions-left-hanging-as-wireless-bites-back-20100112-m4u7.html Which stated that wireless 3G services were a runaway success? Consequently the opposition seized this opportunity to snipe at Senator Conroy about the financial viability of the [...]
Given the attention of Governments to file sharing, it would appear that the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) was obviously caused by you sharing a copy of Lily Allens “Fuck you very much”. We have Ministers flying all over the world to discuss how to criminalize 15 year old kids who can’t yet vote. These [...]
I just heard some of the numbers on YouTube from Ken Rutkowski. They are utterly amazing when you think about them – but I have to say that I was predicting this kind of growth several years ago. Still not as big in Australia as in the US, but once the NBN is up and [...]
All over the world, bankers, economists and Governments are watching the growth of Facebook with envy.Imaging getting a hundred million new customers between April and September. Wow. Pretty good stuff. Wouldnt it be great if we could grow the the country's economy the same way. Well – the good news is – there is a [...]
The Internet is lauded by many, hated by a few, but without doubt has changed the lives of everyone connected to it. It is therefore reasonable that the internet and it’s underlying technologies occasionally become the target of geek humour. The internet is abuzz today about the pigeon that could. South African Internet users [...]
The latest craze (meme) on Facebook is co-op farming. The backbone mainstay of the communist co-operatives and Israeli Kibutzes, localized farms have proven to be vital when attempting to provide food for a decentralized population (more than 5 miles from the food growing establishment (farm, dairy, piggery, hatchery, etc) What about Coles, [...]
Back when I was in the music business I sat on a couple of the industry boards. Back then there was a considerable amount of naivete about how to deal with government. The attitudes of the “industry” were totally, “screw the government; they will come around to our thinking if they have any sense…” I [...]
Part 1. – P2P is threatening the US Monetary system It took humanity 25,000 years to create the “perfect financial system” and less than a hundred years to destroy it. Perfect? Well that depends on who you are talking too. For sometime, we at Perceptric have been saying that the world needs [...]
Last Tuesday just after 6pm I got a sales calls from Telstra’s Big Pond trying to sell me a Next G broadband package. I politely told the saleswoman, Cloe, that I wasn’t a big fan of Telstra because they were not able to sell me a DSL broadband connection, because they don’t have enough copper [...]