For the non Aussie readers (heh, see how I used a plural?) our Government (namely Peter Garret) introduced a scheme last year to pay for people’s houses to be insulated.
This had multiple benefits;

People weren’t cold… Or hot. So less Air Con and Heating used.
Industry stimulus. More work
Made the government look good

This also had a few [...]

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Tomorrow is Invasion Day.
In August 1770, Captain James Cook discovered Australia and claimed in ‘No Mans Land,’ dispite the existence of the indiginous people, the Aboriginals.
On the 26th of January 1788, Governor Arthur Philip arrived leading the First Fleet and ’settled’ Australia.
Now, at this stage, the white settlers would have you believe that [...]

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About three weeks ago, I turned 30. It was a hard milestone for me, I had hoped to achieve more in my life than I have.
It arrived quickly, suspiciously quickly. I wasn’t entirely convinced that 3 decades had indeed passed since I was born… But alas, it was correct and I enjoyed a few beers [...]

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Ok, I know I have been neglecting this blog for a long time. Thats because most of my technical rantings have moved to Fliquid Studios. But, I needed to share one of the most ridiculous usability failures I have ever experienced.
Today I was searching for a simple tank volume calculator to work out how [...]

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Please sign the GetUp petition against internet censorship. If you feel strongly enough about it, you might consider making a small donation.
 

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Almost an hour ago (or maybe more) one of the worlds most popular blogs, mashable, posted about Google Ads for Terrorism. Basically, Googles automated ad server, which picks up on keywords and displays ads based on those words, seems to advertise a lot of bad stuff.
eBay had this problem for a long time. A Google [...]

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A judge has let a bunch of Greenpeace activists off the hook after they did 35,000 pounds damage to a coal plant. In their defence, they stated that the plant will do much more damage than that in the future and were all found not guilty.
Full Story at The Independent

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grep is a file content searching tool for Linux. It is loved by programmers for its ease of use and swift search results (with customisable output). For example, if you forgot where you left your debug code, you can quickly display a list of the files that contain the code like so;
grep -ril ‘var_dump’ *

But, [...]

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A lot of people these days use graphical clients for creating their database schema’s and therefor start with the Entity Relationship diagram and then have it generate the SQL for them. I prefer to write SQL directly as I seem to have an ongoing misunderstanding with most graphical clients but then I would need to [...]

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My hero, Captain Paul Watson has landed in Brisbane and will start preparing the Steve Irwin for the 2008/09 whaling season. He has also said that the current Australian government is weaker than the previous on the grounds of whaling in Australian and International waters.
I’m really upset with this government because they have reneged on [...]

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