December 11, 2008Matt
Come along to the #nocleanfeed rallies and protests Australia wide on Saturday the 13th of December. For more info, have a look here and here. While you’re at it, if you haven’t already signed the petition, head on over to GetUp’s Save The Net Petition.
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December 6, 2008Matt
Australia, probably the biggest Aussie film produced to date, advertised as an epic, reviewed as a bomb. I wasn’t sure what to expect before I saw it, the trailers looked great, the marketing was great, but almost all the reviews I saw indicated that it was a bit of a flop. On IMDB, at the [...]
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February 4, 2008Matt
For anyone that doesn’t know what Pathfinders actually is, it is similar to the Scouts teen and youth programs. There is a lot of information available at Pathfinders Online. Basically though, if you come across someone who is a Pathfinder, they are part of a worldwide organisation of people that are sponsored by the Seventh-Day [...]
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January 3, 2008Matt
Australian from yesterday covering the pitfalls and problems with ISP level filtering and various forms of filtering. It is probably the most accurate and reasonably presented article I’ve seen from a newspaper yet, even though the quotes are predominately from IIA spokesman Peter Coroneo’s rather than someone from the current government. “…he warned it could [...]
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December 31, 2007Matt
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 [...]
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November 28, 2007Matt
On Monday evening, I was at uni, for no other reason then that the router at home was completely rooted yet again and was failing to do anything useful at all, and being that it is not my router, and I don’t have access to the internet password, I couldn’t do much about it. As [...]
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