Blogs

Myki ticket system shaping as an expensive mess Thursday 22 October 2009 Myki is costing $850 million to build and just under $550 million to run over 10 years — a staggering $1.
Magpies hold funerals for fallen feathered friends Thursday 22 October 2009 “We can’t know what they were actually thinking or feeling, but reading their action there’s no reason not to believe these birds were saying a magpie farewell to their friend.
Apple's new 27 inch iMac designed to also work as a display Thursday 22 October 2009 Apple has designed its new 27" iMac model to serve as an external display for DisplayPort devices such as recent MacBook and MacBook Pros.
Deploying 2500 Windows 7 netbooks at Tech.Ed Australia Sunday 18 October 2009 We also ran into power issues caused by attempting to image 500 netbooks at a time.
10/GUI Thursday 15 October 2009 via vimeo.com An interesting concept for what a multi-touch operating system would look like.
Wall Street Smarts Thursday 15 October 2009 If you really want to know why the financial system nearly collapsed in the fall of 2008, I can tell you in one simple sentence.
Frisky bowser bonk Wednesday 14 October 2009 A MAN and a woman were charged after police interrupted their 25-minute drunken sex romp in an allegedly stolen four-wheel-drive at a Territory service station.
No matter how dysfunctional, there's no place like home. Tuesday 13 October 2009 via youtube.com This is Mr T, Loni Anderson and George Hamilton.
'Amateur' IBM brings down Air New Zealand • Channel Register Tuesday 13 October 2009 “In my 30-year working career, I am struggling to recall a time where I have seen a supplier so slow to react to a catastrophic system failure such as this and so unwilling to accept responsibility and apologise to its client and its client’s customers.
City 'lost control' of train network Saturday 10 October 2009 A Senate report into the federal funding of public transport released last month found that Melbourne’s system was badly managed in comparison to Perth’s system, where there is a government operator in charge.