Archive for October, 2005

Brisbane to Toowoomba Buses

October 25th, 2005

Update 24/06/2006: I have written a more up to date recap of this information, it’s here.
Rod and I have been ferrying ourselves between Brisbane and Toowoomba on a fairly regular basis and with the introduction of some cheap bus fairs, it has generally been without the need for cars. (Mine is parked in the Garage […]


Some thoughts about Scoble

October 23rd, 2005

I’ve moved my subscription for the scoble over to his new home. There’s a couple of things I want to point out.

His writing has gone from alot of links and short comments to longer more comprehensive pieces. This isn’t good or bad, but it seems to me that the change to Wordpress has something to […]


My Friends Blogging

October 20th, 2005

I’m in what I think is a funny age group when concerned with the net, most of my friends haven’t been using the for ever (since it began) yet, alot of them live and breathe on it. None of them use livejournal or myspace, and we all chat on msn messenger.
I read that alot of […]


Firefox, Bookmarks and Tagging

October 16th, 2005

Deb Richardson has posted a pretty comprehensive mock-up and concept of a new bookmarking system for Firefox. I think it looks really awesome, though one of the best thing about tagging is that it comes into it’s own when it is working at a scale bigger than on a personal level.
The centralised service also sounds […]


Hurry! Do the Important Stuff

October 14th, 2005

A really well written piece on why we need to make the hard decisions now, rather than letting them become emergencies.
Hurry! Do the Important Stuff


Appalling Behaviour

October 13th, 2005

So last night I was cooking a potato bake and mushroom sauce, I took the potato bake out of the oven, grated some cheese on top to make it go crispy golden brown. As I picked the casserole dish up to put it back in the oven, I felt burning in my fingers and threw […]


The Scurvy Project

October 11th, 2005

There are a few crazy guys at UQ trying their darndest to contract scurvy. Now they say it is to try and avoid their exams, but I think they are really trying to prove to the world that are crazy scientists.
Presenting The Scurvy Project


Making the Trains Run on Time

October 6th, 2005

Dave Winer has sold Weblogs.com to Verisign for from what I can tell an undisclosed sum. He cites the sheer size scalabilty problems he has encountered as reason for it. That’s good enough for me, but his comments remind me of The Whitlams, Blow up the Pokies.

And I wish I, wish I knew the right […]