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Archive for September, 2008

The Rich Are Staging A Coup Today

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

I’m with Michael Moore on this one.

G’Day World #348 - Everett True, “The Man Who Invented Grunge”

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

Meeting Everett True isn’t what you’d expect.
When I went to his house a few weeks ago, I expected to be confronted by Spider Jerusalem in the flesh. Instead I was greeted by someone looking like a middle-aged accountant. Quite the anti-climax.
But the man is still the man. Who is Everett True, I hear [...]

 
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Colbert KILLS Me

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

Funniest line from a very insightful EW interview with Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert:
STEPHEN COLBERT: One of the things I love about my character is I can make vast declarations and it doesn’t matter if I’m wrong. I love being wrong. So my character can tell you exactly what’s going to happen: The Democrats are [...]

G’Day World #347 - Microsoft TechEd 2008

Saturday, September 27th, 2008

Ahh…. Microsoft. I love ya. Where do they get so many folks who can’t cope once they lose their powerpoint cheat sheet?
In the first of a series of interviews with Microsoft folks from the last couple of weeks, today I present a few interviews I did at their TechEd 2008 event in Sydney.
In [...]

 
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Impossibible

Friday, September 26th, 2008

In my ongoing attempts to coin at least ONE WORD which makes it into the dictionary, I tonight stumbled upon “impossibible” which I define as “any claim found in a religious book which is obviously impossible”. Here’s how you use it:
“Jesus rising from the dead is obviously impossibible.”

Drunk History rocks!

Friday, September 26th, 2008

Just when I was congratulating myself that my Napoleon podcast was the greatest thing to happen to teaching history since the Christians realized that if they killed their enemies and burned all their books then they had total control over “the truth”… Bron introduces me to DRUNK HISTORY. Totally brilliant. I’m sick with jealousy.

The Republicans Have Already Won?

Friday, September 26th, 2008

How do you stop a black candidate from winning the vote? Easy. Take black voters off of the voting registers in swing-states. Read more from investigative journalist Greg Palast.

video review of vodafone’s musicstation

Friday, September 26th, 2008

This is the follow up review to the interview I did a few days ago with Karen Paterson, Head of live! Services at Vodafone Australia and David Loiterton, Managing Director, Australia, Omnifone.

Best Birthday Gifts… so far…

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

This being week three of “The Season Of Cam” - which, as you all know, runs from Sept 10 through my birthday on Oct 10 (a public holiday in many countries) through to Nov 10 - the presents are coming thick and fast from Camalista’s all over the world.
Best gifts so far received:
Magnetic Finger Puppets [...]

G’Day World #346 - MusicStation Launches in Australia

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

Today I’m chatting with Karen Paterson, Head of live! Services at Vodafone Australia and David Loiterton, Managing Director, Australia, Omnifone, about the new service just launched in Australia called MusicStation.
Here’s the blurb from the press release:
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Vodafone Australia today launched MusicStation, Australia’s first unlimited mobile music download service, available exclusively to [...]

 
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