Blogs

The Words You Wear Wednesday 15 July 2009 New ideas, like fashion, have to start somewhere. When Jordan in Marketing lays down an energetic thirty minutes of incomprehensible marketing buzz-speak, I take a deep breath and attempt to hear his enthusiasm rather than his seemingly meaningless words.
Something I've learnt Monday 13 July 2009 (Part of a might-abandon series of stuff I’ve learnt and probably shouldn’t forget).
Oh look! Another job that Kosky is not doing. Monday 13 July 2009 Opposition transport spokesman Terry Mulder said the incident was further evidence that Melbourne’s taxi industry had serious problems: “Lynne Kosky and her dysfunctional Victorian Taxi Directorate are not doing their job.
Twitter and Facebook Friday 10 July 2009 Top 10 Reasons Twitter is better than Facebook via twitter.
Apple launches HTTP Live Streaming standard in iPhone 3.0 Thursday 9 July 2009 One of the more overlooked features of the new iPhone 3.
Fake Steve on Google's Chrome OS Thursday 9 July 2009 What the fuck is going on inside Google? How much more out of control and undisciplined can this place get?
Appeal Wednesday 8 July 2009 Nothing appeals to everyone. Even if you try to make something that appeals to everyone by adding every single clamored-for feature, you wind up with something like Windows that does not appeal to people with a taste for the elegant and refined.
BSD vs GPL Wednesday 8 July 2009 You either think freedom, real freedom is a matter of trust and optimism, or you think you can only have freedom, real freedom at the end of a gun.
You go, Air NZ! Monday 6 July 2009 “[Air New Zealand] didn’t dream up [Jetstar’s] draconian check-in rules, his schedule that often cannot be met, his endless schedule changes and his decision to operate ill-equipped aircraft to Queenstown that cannot achieve the same punctuality as Air NZ’s fleet.
Open standards win Monday 6 July 2009 [In 1994, MSN had] identified O’Reilly as an interesting specialty publisher, just the kind of target that they hoped would embrace the Microsoft Network (or MSN, as it came to be called).