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rant

Mostly.
EDIT: And when I say “mostly”, I mean marketing ultimately focused on getting people to buy stuff. Not on changing opinion, not on awareness. It’s a deliberately narrow definition for the purposes of this post.
I’m going to try to be concise as I put this out there for your amusement. I say this as I’m [...]

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Like many of you, I am the default user support person for family and friends.  Mostly, this doesn’t bother me.  When it comes to my parents, it can be a bit heartwrenching – I want to offer them the best I can, but they seem to feel their needs come before my work and everything [...]

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Banning of access to YouTube in schools by the Victorian Government will do less than nothing to reduce bullying. It’s totally und utterly the wrong approach. Big Brother governance has never worked in situations of this nature and it never will. This action fails to address the problem where it occurs – [...]

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Whither CF?

November 13, 2006

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Over at Application Generation, Forta Blog and at An Architect’s View, there’s yet another iteration of the “long term viability of ColdFusion” discussions going on. Peter Bell, Ben Forta and Sean Corfield are all smart cookies, and more than adequately eloquent on the subject matter. That said, here’s my $0.02.

Adobe spent a lot [...]

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The TechCrunch (un)debacle

November 2, 2006

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Mike Arrington of TechCrunch has posted on CrunchNotes about his unhappiness over the supposed conflict of interest disclosure issues some seem to have with him (see the buzz at Techmeme).
Now, unless I’ve completely misunderstood what’s going on here, I just don’t get it.
Mike Arrington seems to me to make it abundantly clear when a possible [...]

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Is it possible to have iCal send invitations as a different user? The default behavior seems to be that it sends as the last Apple Mail user to send an email. Frankly, this isn’t what I want. I want to be able to choose to send invitations to events related to work [...]

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Of course not.
Despite the coolness of the item, and the great cause associated with it, the iPod nano (PRODUCT) RED isn’t available in Australia. This sucks big time.
Anyone out there in the US prepared to get one for me? Paypal from me to you.

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AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!
Sorry. Had to do that.
This story from the UK (via boingboing) and a story out of Sydney I heard on ABC NewsRadio this morning in which Jewish students at Sydney University are having to wear baseball caps over their yarmulkes in order to avoid being targetted in racial-religious attacks; Muslim students are being targetted [...]

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UPDATE – And another link about this. This time from someone who intimately knows about security and how it ought properly be implemented; Bruce Schneier.
As mentioned before, I take the risk of real terrorism, very seriously. But I’ve got a big bee in my bonnet about the latest fearmongering taking place. A [...]

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I purchased my late-model 15.4″ PowerBook from Domayne in Canberra on November 26 last year. Since that time, it has had two logic board (motherboard) replacements; thus I’m on logic board number three now. The most recent replacement was done by Mac1 here last week. Here’s the timeline:
26/11/2006 – Purchase
May 2006 – [...]

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