They’ve lost their Sensis ( The Age / Edward Mandla)
I won’t quote from the article, but it is a good summary of whats lacking from Telstra’s Sensis operation. In summary - everything.
February 2006
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Current Events16 Feb 2006 09:12 am
USA administration unpopular with Australians
US sinks to new low in eyes of Australians ( SMH / Louise Williams)
From the article: “In interviews conducted between last October and January, only 29 per cent of Australians had a “mainly positive” attitude towards the US, while 60 per cent were “mainly negative” and 11 per cent undecided. This is down on last year, when 40 per cent of Australians were positive about the US.”
It would probably be better to clarify that it is the USA government that people take issue with - in particular the current occupant of the White House. Personally I’m just glad Bush can’t be elected for another term, unlike John Howard who seems to be in no hurry to retire.
Internet & Music & Entertainment07 Feb 2006 12:15 pm
At any rate, it’s a bit of a rip-off ( The Guardian / Adam Webb )
This article is a good look at the bitrate encoding of various paid music download services and what sort of difference in quality you can expect. Personally I have not purchased any 128k encoded files, such as those from iTunes, and I have no intention to in the future. I’d probably buy 320k encoded files, but I wouldn’t pay more than the 128k version. Ideally I’d prefer to get the audio uncompressed and do my own compression on it. It’s probably a very small minority of users who would want to do that..
Melbourne01 Feb 2006 06:40 am
Car use to be discouraged in the Melbourne CBD
Plan to axe cars from city centre ( The Age / Liz Minchin )
From the article: “CARS will be driven out of the city in favour of public transport and bicycles under a radical new council strategy that abandons plans for a multibillion-dollar cross-city tunnel and suggests slashing speed limits in the CBD.”
The proposal includes reducing the city speed limit from 50 to 40km/hr, introducing tram/bus only lanes, and offering discounted public transport tickets to CBD shoppers. The plan really needs the assistance of the state government to improve public transport to the city, especially the train network. This seems like a good idea, but I can’t see much of it being implemented in the short to medium term.