“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 [...]

Not only are Labor disappointing federally, but they are locally as well. Steve Griffiths is the local Labor councillor for Moorooka Ward, and with the upcoming election for Brisbane’s Lord Mayor and so on, he sent out an application for postal votes, which I filled in and returned to his office. I received a letter, [...]

Yes, Translink is so awesome. I left an hour early because last week I only just got to uni in time. Now, having left an hour early, you would think I would have gotten to uni earlier than I did last week where I was here just as the lecture started. Well, that is far [...]

It’s weekends like this weekend, even more so, days like today, that the $39 a month for my 3G modem is well worth it. Yes there have been plenty of other times it has proved invaluable, such as keeping my internet usage at uni below 150mb. After all, to get another 5gb at uni it [...]

According to an article earlier today on the Sydney Morning Herald, the censorship ministers will be discussing giving an R18+ rating to games at the Standing Committee of Attorneys-General (SCAG). At the moment, the highest rating a game can have in Australia is MA15+ and there is almost no ID checking taking place to ensure [...]

I don’t know if Macicism is a word. Google returns nothing but an expired domain. Either way, I am using it to describe what Kobi Shely was attempting to research and explain in the Macheads documentary that was written about in the Sydney Morning Herald. In the article on the Sydney Morning Herald website, they [...]

It’s been a while since I’ve heard anything about Mr Rudd et al’s internet censorship schemes and so on, so I had been starting to hope they had realised that it would just be digging their own grave. Apparently not. It’s no big surprise that the Rudd Government claims the NetAlert software that was pushed [...]

With newspapers Australia wide running near identical articles on the latest announcement today from the Australian Labor Party, and blogs worldwide abuzz, I can’t help but be astounded. How is mandatory ISP level internet filtering a smart idea? Whether it causes a speed difference or not, which I believe it will, it makes me wonder [...]

Joe Wilcox from Microsoft Watch has some really great advice in his top 10 recommendations for 2008. It’s just a pity that chances are, Microsoft won’t take much of it on board. I particularly like number 2, and I think this is something that would be really beneficial. There is nowhere that properly showcases Microsoft [...]

The web design company that we use at the store is at it again. This time though, instead of just providing us with a poor service, they are in fact blaming us for their problems. Now, some of the things they were saying and suggesting are fair enough, yes we can control the addition of [...]