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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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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Secret files, photos and plans have been found on a camera bought on eBay in the UK for £17. The files included profiles on al-Qaeda members, weapons plans and even Guantanamo Bay detainee’s. My only explanation can be that an MI6 operative put the wrong memory card in their camera before selling it. Obviously they [...]

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Why is it, that as a 28 year old ‘grown up’ guy, I can still get choked up when I reminisce about the past?
I recently added an old boss of mine as a friend on Facebook. Now, I am not a big facebooker but I like seeing what people are up to these days. I [...]

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I have been looking for something like this for a long time. I hate ring tones with a passion and my phone is almost always on silent. Enter my ipod and a productive morning and I miss a lot of calls. So, Nokia has built in a desktop call notification feature in their new PC [...]

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Lifehacker today posted about a site called iSearch which allows its users to search for people online.
 
I read the post and I thought “great, there are a bunch of people i’d love to contact”. I went to the site and was a bit bummed that it thought that ‘Sydney’ meant ‘Sydney, FL’ and not [...]

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