always the critic

first up, happy new year! it was a much needed break but i’ve had to hit the ground running it’s been one helluva start with work extremely busy.
over my break i consumed a lot of media but didn’t do much contribution. i did a lot of thinking and introspection and have come to a resolution: [...]

electricians should advertise in the yellow pages

confession: i haven’t used the yellowpages in years. at least the yellow book anyway. everything’s online. why let my fingers do the walking when i can let them do the tap tap tap dancing?
well it occurred to me that a pure online strategy for the yellow pages wouldn’t work. what if the electricity was out? [...]

end the membership card madness!

i don’t carry all my cards in my wallet, frankly, it’s nigh impossible.
the picture you see next door is a select of the cards sitting in my “too much to carry around tray”. i’m sure at some point they were a novel and interesting way to identify yourself or provide information, but do we [...]

dear rupert

dear rupert
it has been a long time since we have spoken, i dare say it’s close to never now, but it has not stopped me from observing your farming business from afar. it appears you’re in a spot of bother and felt it would be remiss of me not to at least offer a different [...]

can we expect kevin rudd to personally tweet?

well today our prime minister decided to join twitter. welcome kev. this follows hot on the heels of the current leader of the opposition, malcolm turnbull’s very successful entry to twitterverse.
probably, but not all the time. what is good is that his people are transparent when it’s not him updating his twitter page. see below.

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STOP the Great Firewall of Australia

if you have been tracking the news today the australian government is attempting to subvert the freedom by which australians are able to choose what information they consume on the internet.
to make matters worse, they have brought pressure to bear on a critic of this move.
mark newton, a network engineer for isp, internode, wrote a [...]