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Despite my contempt for chain email, every now and then I get forwarded one which truly makes me laugh out loud. Here’s one example I’ll post while I try to get my body and mind back into shape after a hard weekend of partying.
(And yes, 17 does seem like a strange number of winning [...]

Another easy mental day for me today with a reference to the only time someone (worthwhile) thought my words worth quoting. The someone in question was The Age newspaper in a March 2002 article on the slow uptake of broadband in Australia.

Another broadband policy critic, James Harris, has been a Telstra broadband customer for [...]

A letter arrived in the mail yesterday from a company called Domain Names Australia (DNA). It caught my eye as it was addressed “n/a” which is not a name that you’d usually expect to see as the addressee on an envelope.
“n/a” is what I fill in the organisation or company field when registering domain [...]

Although I have finally managed to convince most of my friends to not forward chain emails to me, every now and then on sneaks through under the guise of a public service announcement or the like.
These messages are effective at getting forwarded as they appeal to people’s desire to help others (as long as it [...]

Around twelve months ago I was involved in a campaign to support the creation of the world’s first marine national parks here in Victoria.
In support of the campaign I sent several letters and emails to relevant politicians, including Craig Ingram, an independent MP representing the East Gippsland region. His vote would have been critical [...]

It seems more Telstra talks about changing, the more it stays the same.
Every week there is another horror story about Telstra’s quality of service, pricing or predatory behaviour. I recently stumbled across an email I sent to our Federal Minister for Communications, Richard Alston, (also known as the World’s Biggest Luddite) about eighteen months [...]

The Victorian government is currently engaged in a massive revenue raising exercise under the guise of ‘road safety’. Revenue from speed cameras jumped from $20.1 million dollars during March 2002 to $33.5 million dollars during the same period in 2003.
In response to this, an email has been circulating purporting to list the location of [...]

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One of the differences many new Linux users notice is the lack of familiar fonts. X11 includes support for True Type fonts, however Linux distributions do not include fonts that OS X and Windows users are used to.
Thanks to the Core Fonts project at SourceForge it is now easy (and legal) to create an [...]

As mentioned in a previous blog, I have recently removed Microsoft Windows from my work desktop in favour of Apple’s OS X and Linux. During this move I had to transfer all my documents and email across to my new OS X machine which is my primary desktop.
Transferring my documents was pain free with [...]