Looks like Coles Myer is thinking of getting into the banking/finance area.

Now it wants to offer customers a simple suite of financial services, ranging from mortgages and personal loans to credit cards, and it wants to load these services on a single, plastic card.

Their ads have said this for a while.. but now its true. There is no Scape.

I just found another interview with the creator of The Sims, Will Wright. This time he talks about how the game has progessed since its release and what they’re doing with it in the future.

Yahoo in financial trouble?

There is a good article over at salon.com about the current state of affairs with Yahoo! and the internet in general and how it relates to the financial markets.

VBS virus creation tool

At last, the VBS virus creation tool is available to the general public.

You all run secure email clients which don’t execute VB scripts, don’t you?

Internet gambling filter

Here we go again…

This time they reckon they can stop Australians from gambling on the net by forcing ISPs to filter content.

Bah. Idiots.

Ansett engine fire

Apparently an engine caught fire on an Ansett flight last night. Ansett are denying this of course, but it serves as another reminder of why I don’t fly with them.

MIT students have too much time on their hands.

Bigpond email outage

A big hello to BigPond who are still running their mail services on NT and managed to break email for about 70,000 people this week.