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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Its been a while since I posted on this blog, primarily because I have been busy with all sorts of things and also because I post on sustainmyself.com and fliquidstudios.com a lot also. But, this was one post I couldn’t pass up.
In a tweet by @kevinrose this morning, attention was brought to the similarities between [...]

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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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Well, today I found out that I am no longer required at REA Group (realestate.com.au). It doesn’t come as a surprise but it is certainly not welcome.
I have a few things in the pipeline, but the most exciting is the partnership with Michael Little in Fliquid Studios which is a web application development company.
We [...]

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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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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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Thats right folks. Breaking news! Ferrari’s are greener than Prius’ according to Ferrari’s CEO Amedeo Felisa. He states;
“The combined emissions of all Ferraris sold in a year are less than those of all Toyota Prius sold in a year. So the net effect of Ferrari on global warming is less than a Prius.”

That means that [...]

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Just brilliant.

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I can’t help but link to this post about a Coca Cola marketing campaign that was .. well, just a little wrong on a few fronts.
Consumers:1 Coke: zero

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