Men are bastards
Thursday, October 27th, 2005Im sure every gaymen, lesbian and straight woman reading this would agree with me.
Archive for October, 2005
CMR
Thursday, October 27th, 2005Just a little more about the Australian Customs “CMR” fuckup.
Communique on ICS system -
Wednesday, 26th October 2005Key industry groups today met with the Minister for Justice and Customs Senator Chris Ellison and the Australian Customs Service to address concerns in relation to the implementation of the Integrated Cargo System (ICS).
There was broad agreement that Customs should press ahead with the new system and continue to work with freight forwarders, transport operators, brokers and stevedores to resolve technical difficulties and processing issues. This will also rely on Customs and third party software suppliers delivering system enhancements as efficiently and expeditiously as possible.
Which means, basically, software vendors involved with Customs Brokerage will be taking the fall for customs. Not a good sign for these software vendors.
The World
Tuesday, October 25th, 2005Just a pic of Alana and I at “The World” in Kings Cross
Comics
Tuesday, October 25th, 2005Unfit follows the daily life of Mike, a personal trainer at a local gym, and his wacky clients, whose personalities are as hopeless as their waistlines. A good-natured guy who just wants to get through the day, Mike has to deal with middle-aged female clients who think their weekly personal training sessions are dates; a wife, Stacey, who spends quality time in her shopping-obsessed dream world; and a pet Chicken who is, surprisingly enough, the strip’s voice of reason.
Hey this is actually pretty good for a commercial web comic. Check it out.
A longer post than usual
Monday, October 24th, 2005Life Can Get BumpyThat’s why we equip PowerBook computers with an extra measure of data protection. Should an unexpected elbow send your PowerBook flying, the Sudden Motion Sensor technology built into every PowerBook detects the accelerated movement or sudden position change — and instantly parks the heads on your hard drive. Once your PowerBook is level again, it unlocks the drive heads automatically.
This is no doubt the coolest feature I have read about on a laptop. Totally.
In other news here is not how do design an API
Jabber-Net
A set of libraries for connecting to Jabber
using .Net technology.
It API is totally gross: it has a confusing class structure and does not abstract itself almost at all from the XML underpinings. Don’t use it. It sucks. Your best bet is IKVM’ing one of the JAVA based ones.
Also, apparently PeopleAggregator got merged into Drupal as CivicSpace.
Also, do we live in the fucking new Dark Ages or something? Get a grip people. If you think science is a sham I’d like to see you live without it. (You wouldn’t be alive without it anyway you bunch of assholes).
Boston GlobeAmerica debates evolution: Why now?
Reuters -14 hours ago
Americans are bone-deep into a fight over evolution thanks in large part to a new script that has defined the issue in a way not seen since the “monkey trial” in rural …
Cornell President Condemns Teaching Intelligent Design as ScienceNew York Times
This verdict won’t end debateMinneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier -Boston Globe -Houston Chronicle -Sydney Morning Herald (subscription) -all 53 related »
Google News Australia - Sci/Tech
Oh And Flock has totally gone public with its code:
Flock Developer Preview is now available.
Anyone know what happened to PeopleAggregator ?
Monday, October 24th, 2005PeopleAggregator - An Open Source Social Network
Slashdot | PeopleAggregator - An Open Source Social Network
Does anyone know what happened to PeopleAggregator? The website states “Sorry, but PeopleAggregator has been taken offline.”
More importantly if its down - where is the source?
Birthday’s
Monday, October 24th, 2005I had two birthdays to do on Saturday - Shane’s and Rachel’s. I survived we had an awesome night ending at Gilligans, watching the sun rise over Darlinghurst - which was very very pretty.
I survived.
Or else? Oh Jack, you’re a blue berry muffin of creamy fun.
Friday, October 21st, 2005Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 17:24:04 +0100 (BST)From: “Scott Ramsoomair”
Subject: Re: This sex isn’t hidden, Scott. Wouldn’t want the facts to get in the way or your drawing, now would you?To: “Jack Thompson” Hello, my name is parody it’s a pleasure to meet you! I’m a literary or artistic device used in a jovial fashion for the purpose of comedic effect. Though my subject may be real my, I however do not have to be. For I exist as a mockery of that subject. Best wishes!-Parody.
Yeah, some emails sent from the guys at VG Cats to Jack Thompson - quite amusing. Thought you would like a laugh this horrid friday afternoon of corporate hell.
*Que Dilbert theme*
More On Flock
Friday, October 21st, 2005A cutting edge Firefox-based Web browser dubbed ‘Flock’, which integrates next-generation Web technologies such as RSS content feeds, blogs and bookmark and photo sharing, was launched today.
Advanced browser gives taste of Web 2.0: ZDNet Australia: News: Software
Flock is totally rocking. You should sign-up for the preview!
Ouch.
Thursday, October 20th, 2005Sydney port backlog faces crisis point
A flaw in a new Customs computer system has caused a large backlog in containers at Port Botany.A flaw in a new Customs computer system has caused a large backlog in containers at Port Botany.
Sydney port backlog faces crisis point - Business - Business - smh.com.au
Not good. I can assure you.