Archive for March, 2007

I just saw Sen­ate Ques­tion Time on TV and it just rein­forced that the Min­is­ter for Com­mu­nic­a­tions does not get it. Her answer to the oppos­i­tion ques­tion was pure polit­ical theatre …

I don’t nor­mal talk polit­ics on this blog, but this time polit­ics is mix­ing with tech­no­logy and the inter­net, so I will make an excep­tion. For those of you out­side of Aus­tralia or have been ignor­ing the news for the last couple days, the labour oppos­i­tion has prom­ised high speed broad­band to 98% of all Aus­trali­ans. Note this is not fibre to your home, just fibre to the node (ie your local tele­phone exchange).

The Gov­ern­ment has two prob­lems with the proposal…

Hope­fully things should return to a ver­sion of nor­mal this week. Angie has been out of hos­pital for a week now and I have been adjust­ing to my new role as chief tea­maker and pre­parer of soft boiled eggs and soldiers…

The alpha ver­sion of the West Coast Blog­gers t-shirt prin­ted for me by Pis­tol Cloth­ing.

I should of been wear­ing in Aus­tin for SXSWi but it is not to be, this year.

See­ing someone you love, in pain lying in bed with tubes com­ing out of them and not being able to do anything.

Just a quick post to let my friends know what is hap­pen­ing in my life.