I’ve been looking through the Australian government’s new My School website, which shows the graded performance of schools around the country, both public and private in the areas of reading, writing, spelling, grammar/punctuation and numeracy. After looking at all the schools I attended, and those that my sister attended that I didn’t, there seems to [...]

I noticed an article on IT News Australia this morning about talk of the “Australia Card” identification card/system coming up again. This got me to thinking a bit today, and also trends I’ve noticed previously and things that people have pointed out to me and that sort of thing. Who really is watching? Think about [...]

Google Chrome, the most recent browser to join the fray. Is Chrome just a browser though? I have to say I don’t think so. The release of Chrome reinforces my views that Google are directly targeting the operating system and integrated applications market. Be warned that the below is entirely my thoughts and theories based [...]

I have noticed over the past month or so that there have begun to be some more obvious changes in transport in response to the increasing fuel costs. Over the past year there has been an increase in Camry’s/Aurion’s as taxi’s and police vehicles in place of some of Falcon’s and Commodore’s, and over the [...]

“Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” (Benjamin Franklin, from Wikiquote) Or, a more commonly known re-worded version, “Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.” (Wikiquote) I’ve been reading in the [...]

When the developers of software released world-wide experience the same problems as end users, it makes you wonder why it wasn’t fixed before it was released. The release of an email between Microsoft executives during a lawsuit revealed that even they were having problems with the Vista operating system. Have a read over at the [...]

After my blog regarding some theories I have on future direction of some of the major IT companies at the moment, Tim from Spyjournal has added a few additional thoughts and idea’s that are very relevant. I would like to make a few comments on some of them. Economics Tim pointed out that the cost, [...]

I was reading today about Microsoft’s decision to support interoperability and it didn’t really come as a huge surprise. Some people would know I’m all for interesting theories regarding the direction of the major technology companies, Microsoft, Google, Apple, etc. Now, upon reading about this, it reminded me of a theory I had that I [...]