I want to go home but I brokes the interweb…
Category: Consciousness
doesn’t use Twitter enough.
doesn’t use Twitter enough.
Soup
I like Soup. I’ve only just discovered it. That is to say, I knew it existed, but I’ve only just created myself on it – oh, and on tumblr. Nothing really exciting happening there yet. Soup on the other hand aggregates all my bookmarks, google reader shared items, blog posts, Twitter tweets (I think I’ve posted 18 in 2 months…) and will have any picasa photos I choose to put there.
No wonder kids have attention problems…
Just thinking about this makes my head hurt. Things used to be so much simpler.
Carazy
Keith Loutit is the man who produced those amazing tilt shift videos of the Sydney Harbour I posted a while ago. He’s at it again. This time making a demolition derby look like a game with Tonka trucks.
Optima Prime
The words “Cool” and “Transformers T-Shirt” and “ASCII Art” were never destined to be included in the same sentence. Until now. This is the second time I’ve made an Optimus Prime pun inspired post. You can buy this shirt for $14US. I know I want one.
Genius
iTunes 8’s genius feature is brilliant. I hearts it, I do. It’s house cleaning time. I picked Yves St Klein’s “Polka” the song from that ad with people throwing stuff in the car from their second story window. And I get the following:
Darren Hanlon, Xavier Rudd, White Stripes, Kaiser Chiefs, Supergrass, Pulp, Placebo, Gotye and the Dandy Warhols – a perfect Sunday afternoon clean up mix.
Give way to buses
This is the stupidest law in Queensland. I understand that in less civilised countries it’s basically the biggest thing on the road has right of way. But I was driving home tonight and this bus just pulled out of me. I started placidly raising my fist and questioning the ability of the bus driver when my wife gently informed me that you have to give way to buses. Hands up who knew that? It’s a stupid law. Here it is from the Queensland Transport laws of giving way page :
When should I give way to buses?
In built up areas where the speed limit is 70km/h or below you must give way to buses when:
- buses are entering or about to enter traffic
- buses are pulling out from a bus stop, shoulder of the road, or far left side of the road
- the bus displays a GIVE WAY TO BUSES sign and the right direction indicator is operating.
When a bus complies with all the above criteria, then vehicles approaching from behind must give way. It is important to remember that all vehicles, including buses, must indicate for five seconds before moving off.
It’s a dumb law. And there’s no way buses ever indicated for five seconds before moving off – but how can you prove that in the event of an accident? Does anyone time it? Is it registered in the bus’s black box so that in the case of an emergency it can be recovered to tell all… If buses are a protected species there should be something to ensure they don’t take advantage of the system.
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Robyn's phone has a cool panorama feature. Here's us watching the thunderstorm in Townsville tonight.
Phoning it in
I admire the resolve of sub editors around the world not to make racially charged puns on the dilemma surrounding Barack Obama and his blackberry. This is a serious issue people. Due to security concerns – and laws surrounding the status of presidential correspondence – the President of the United States does not have an email address. Lucky the Republicans didn’t get in – Sarah Palin’s passwords are really easy to crack.
Obama’s Blackberry was a constant companion during the campaign. And now he has to give it up – his tech savvy approach to grassroots campaigning was arguably the factor that won him the presidency – it certainly won him the primaries.
Why can the White House not afford to pay the best security people in the business to ensure their Commander in Chief can have access to technology? Surely the US Army doesn’t have its officers receiving correspondence by carrier pigeon?
Slate provides some interesting background on the drama – and in the process makes the argument for the President to have email access and the ability to hold on to his preferred communications device.
I, on the other hand, am not the President of the United States. And I want an iPhone. I am lobbying hard for iPhones to be the phone of choice in our office’s upgrade of our current mobiles.
iPhones don’t just look cool – they’re incredibly functional and extensible. They will not go out of date any time soon. Other tech companies (like Google) are struggling to release an iPhone killer – a device to dent the iPhone’s popularity. Here is my suggested iPhone killer:
A weighty cause
I have a deal with my lovely wife that if I lose 10kg I can have an Xbox 360. It's a long running deal. My progress has been pretty stagnant. But now, thanks to Peter Davey and Facebook, you can join the cause and track my progress via this group.
Feel free to drop by the group and give advice/encouragement/suggestions for games to purchase when I reach the goal.
I’m a gmail ninja… themes ar…
I’m a gmail ninja… themes are cool
i’m looking for the quintessen…
i’m looking for the quintessential colour of coffee (RGB or Hex). There are so many colours of coffee – roasted, ground, brewed, plunged…
is it just me who thinks takin…
is it just me who thinks taking emails away from POTUS is counterproductive? In a literal sense