wonk v3.0

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*

Impressive to watch too.

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.

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.”

Just adding some more of those little things to the sidebar.

In perperation 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.)

There is a good article here about peer 2 peer networks used for outsourcing processing tasks and how their economy may work.

If you hate the ‘product’ of the popstars tv show (otherwise known as Bardot) as much as I do, you may be interested to know that similar series are underway in other countries (scary). This article is by an entertainment writer in London who is watching the series there and preparing for the worst.

Back to reality though.. 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 suprised 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 assett (.com.au) to MelbourneIT, giving them the opportunity to make millions, which the taxpayer has missed our on any sort of benifit from the sale of Australian domain names.

Damn Liberal morons.

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.

Suze DeMarchi to join INXS?

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.