Jan 29, 2001 Uncategorized
SMH: CASA to widen probe into Ansett.
And so they should. If any small airline had this volume of safety issues over a month they would be shut down by CASA before someone got killed. IMHO the only reason Ansett are still in the air is that they are large enough to disrupt the entire domestic aviation system should they stop flying. That, and the potential lawsuits. Get your act together Ansett. See also SMH: Ansett grounds jet over maintenance error .
However, on a lighter note, someone has invented Virtual Bubblewrap. *p0p*
Jan 27, 2001 Music & Entertainment
I just watched a few episodes of eskimo bob. This is yet more confirmation of the common theory that most people have too much time on their hands.
Jan 25, 2001 Uncategorized
This may be old news by now but I’d like to mention it anyway. It seems the Clinton administraton left a nice suprise for George W Bush and co on their arrival to the White House. They took the W keys from the keyboard of every computer. This makes it hard to type things like ‘White House’, ‘Washington’, or ‘George W Bush’.
George’s spokesman Ari Fleischer is quoted as saying “It would have been ‘Wow’, but the W was removed, so now it’s just O.”
Moving to Melbourne
Jan 22, 2001 Current Events
In preparation for my move to Melbourne next month I have added the Melbourne weather to the sidebar on the left.
(Its the little things that count.)
Note: This has since been removed in a later site redesign.
p2p for economic benefit
Jan 22, 2001 Internet
There is a good article here about peer 2 peer networks used for outsourcing processing tasks and how their economy may work.
Tags: p2p
AUNIC purchased by Australian Government
Jan 22, 2001 Internet
It seems the Australian Government has purchased AUNIC from Geoff Huston. They have paid $20,000 for the database which contains records for all sorts of domain name and ip registrations. Their next step will be to try and get control of .au from Robert Elz. I wouldn’t hold my breath for this one.
I’m not sure what the government intends to do with AUNIC. With their current track record on all things internet I wouldn’t be surprised if they stuff the system up completely and introduce a ton of red tape to get anything done. After all, they gave exclusive control of a public asset (.com.au) to MelbourneIT, giving them the opportunity to make millions, which the taxpayer has missed our on any sort of benefit from the sale of Australian domain names.
Jan 19, 2001 Uncategorized
Next time you’re thinking of flying.. keep in mind extremely frequent flying increases the risk of cancer, and Ansett considers cracks in their aircraft a non-issue.
Jan 18, 2001 Uncategorized
It sounds interesting, although its probably just rumors at this stage. For those not in the know, Suze was the lead singer of the Baby Animals who won an aria award in the early 90s.