Jan 10, 2002 Uncategorized
No expense was spared when the Victorian Government decided to design and build a palatial new platform for Port Phillip Bay’s fur seals to lounge about on.
Eleven months and more than $210,000 later, the bay has what one regular visitor described as “a friggin’ Taj Mahal for seals“.
Dec 28, 2001 Uncategorized
Good news today. The boy/girl band ‘Steps’ has split up. A few of the other groups I would like to see disbanded include
- Human Nature
- Backstreet boys
- N’Sync
- Blue
- S-Club 7
- Bardot
- Scandl’us (or whatever they call themselves)
- Sugarbabes
- Destiny’s Child
Bring on the good old aussie rock.
Dec 17, 2001 Uncategorized
Ever wondered why the US Air Force are still using B-52 Bombers they’ve had since the 60′s? The answer is cost.
“So keeping 94 B-52s flying costs about $250 million a year — less than half the cost of one new B-2.“
Dec 4, 2001 Uncategorized
SilliconValley.com has a story about how Cisco started from a project at Stanford University. This is the other side of the story from what you will hear from the Cisco PR machine.
Nov 27, 2001 Uncategorized
‘The UKbased Ministry of Sound told ABC radio today it had put forward a proposal to Ansett’s administrator to buy four jets.’ ‘”We’re going to be doing SydneyMelbourne to begin with where you fly from Sydney to Melbourne late in the evening, there will be DJs on board, special DJ decks will have been installed into where the business seats were,” Mr Mergler told ABC radio.’ Full article here.
As Rove would say, “What the?”.
Nov 15, 2001 Uncategorized
Imagine every web page you looked at cost you 1 cent. Would you pay 1 cent to view wonk.org? I wouldn’t, but check this out anyway.
Nov 3, 2001 Uncategorized
Infoworld concludes Windows XP is slower than Windows 2000.
The results of our benchmark tests indicate that Windows XP is significantly slower than Windows 2000, especially under heavy load. Unless investing in new hardware for demanding users is an option, companies should stick with Windows 2000.
Oct 3, 2001 Uncategorized
“Moshe Bar has an excellent article at Byte describing how he designed a wireless freenet for his community, and convinced his neighbors to participate. Most importantly, the freenet has resulted in new forms of interaction and strengthened social ties within his own local community (the inverse of what happens on the wider Internet).”
Comment stolen from Slashdot.
A Wireless Neighbourhood Freenet.