Prologue Has anyone noticed how cheap Home Media players are becoming? The latest price is $35.00 (hard-disk separate.) Available on Ebay. Those chaps over in Hollywood must be a religious bunch, every Blockbuster film release is these days accompanied with the prayer shawls (being ironed) the yamulkas being brushed and the nails being [...]
In the computer industry, there two types of people. Engineers (these are the people with clue) and salesman, (usually the ones with no clue). Hollywood wonder why people download from file-sharing networks to fulfill their entertainment requirements. “I have no idea Mr. President. That is why we need stronger legislation and higher penalties. [...]
The fastest growing and most successful Companies in the World are the proof against an increased attention by anyone to the importance of Copyright and Trademark. For sometime I have been lobbying hard against Australia’s involvement in ACTA. Lobbying Koltai? Is that what you call it? Well yes. I don’t have access in [...]
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 [...]
The problem with the Internet is that it’s full of lies and misdirection. Some of those lies emanate from Media barons, some from Politicians. Hell, some even come from Bloggers. But when the misdirection is uttered by a music artist who is worshipped by the young and naive, then I feel that I have to [...]
(An indictment of Australian Television Programming that Wasn’t Written by Moi……) I was surfing today, about Australian IQ (ummm that would be Intelligence Quotient and not some Foxtel rubbish) and the Television watching habits of Australians, as you do and I came across something so honest that I immediately had to plagiarise it so [...]
Everywhere I go, Foxtel are popping up their click throughs and getting their revenge. I cant even open up Facebook anymore without a Foxtel “offer” glaring at me. Here’s the latest. Like (Don’t bother clicking – I de-stalkified the url) And they actually think I’m going to click the “Like” link [...]
Tomorrow is the end of the world. For Foxtel at least. Well, as far as having me as their number one unpaid critic. You would think that with all the coverage I was giving them, they would have given me a “comped” account. But no, they ignored me – mostly. Apart from when they took [...]
Every Government knows that to keep the sheep constituency happy – you need to feed them four hours of entertainment daily to “pay” them for the addition to the national coffers (Tax). The other day I found some DVD’s at a barrow stand in a shopping centre selling for $2.00 each. They were all [...]
Located in the Antipodies (Australia), I have for a long time lamented the lack of timely local Television Programming of current US Sci-Fi Television shows. Why? Because Rupert Murdoch cut a deal for content in Australia that was so expensive that no-one else could afford to play. As a result, to lower [...]