Happy 26th week of the year!!!

Yep, it's the last week in June and my life is getting very interesting; I'm about to go part time at my current job and start building a mighty cool business. I was in Melbourne for work last week where I was lucky enough to catch the Australia v. Croatia World Cup match. The tension throughout the game and the celebrations at the end at Federation Square were pretty damn fantastic. Pitty about the poor result in the early hours of this morning (but we still love you Socceroos!). We (that's Laura, Jiselle, Tony and I) saw Coldplay on Saturday ... more

Network Neutrality: The "Third" Approach

One of the biggest problems I see with many political activists and lobby groups is that in order to get their point across they are excessively critical of the 'opposing' argument and routinely exaggerate issue after issue in an (often misguided) attempt to make their point of view more attractive1. As with most emerging political debates the debate surrounding the concept of Network Neutrality currently has the two 'sides' sprouting more and more diametrically opposed arguments. I was very pleased today to find (via VoIP News) a paper published by the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF) which presents a ... more

Network Neutrality: Keep Internet Access Equal

There is an article in today's Australian Financial Review about about the growing issue of Network Neutrality (although it waffled a little and ended up talking more about the state of Australia's broadband generally). Network Neutrality is, in my opinion, a huge and really important issue. I'm somewhat surprised at the low level of coverage this issue has received in Australia. I guess maybe it is overshadowed by the other internet/broadband related issues we face, though it shouldn't be. Nevertheless there have been a number of interesting articles published about it: The Australian - Telcos line up against web firms ... more

Quick Language Rant

Over the past couple of two weeks I've heard many numerous people employ the use of a tautological phrase plentifully, numerous times. The exact specific context of the tautology changed and differed each time, but every time it always took a form similar to this: Studio: And, Ken, what do the people there think of their Government's decision to change the national anthem? Location: Well, Sandra, the people we've spoken to have had various different opinions and only time will tell how well this decision is accepted among the population. For those of you who didn't spot the stupidity in ... more

The coming chaos

Well, today is the second day of winter and it was freezing this morning1!!! June is promising to be a very busy month, as is July, August and most definitely September. I have about a week until the chaos really hits. Soccer finals are on their way (assuming we make it that far, given the Ooze is unavailable). We gave the bottom of the ladder mixed team an 18-0 drilling last night (or somewhere there, you lose count when it gets that high) which was a nice follow up to our poor performance in mens'. I'm going to Melbourne for ... more