Monthly Archives: June 2011

VodafoneAU – Don’t URL me, I’ll URL you (vfau.me/dcg4n)

Received an SMS purportedly from Vodafone today. Upcoming correction to data charges from 08.07.11 may affect your service. Please head to: http://vfau.me/dcg4n for more information Following the link you end up at the page http://i.three.com.au/VFMarketing/2011Q2/DataUsageCommsGp1011 and a 404 error message. … Continue reading

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links for 2011-06-28

Censors should grow up: adults can handle sex The Australian censorship system blanches most consistently not at violence, but at sex. Torturing people to death presents relatively little problem to the censors. But dare to show actual sex on film … Continue reading

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Ask STA about busses to Balmain between 8 and 9 am

Arriving for a bus to Balmain behind the QVB this morning I found a mass of other people also waiting (as you can see from the photo, with even more behind me). While it can be expected that many people … Continue reading

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links for 2011-06-16

A piece of string walks into a bar… (joke) | Leefe rates the world… A piece of string walks in to a bar. The bouncer at the door looks at the piece of string and says I'm sorry we don't … Continue reading

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A piece of string walks into a bar… (joke)

A piece of string walks in to a bar. The bouncer at the door looks at the piece of string and says “I’m sorry we don’t serve string here. You’ll have to go somewhere else.” The piece of string is … Continue reading

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100 contacts on LinkedIn, how 1337

Got my 100th contact on LinkedIn. Oh, how 1337. (For those not in the know, replace the numbers with letters and you get ‘Leet‘)

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links for 2011-06-06

The shooting of Hamza, the shaming of the Assads Last week saw the bloodiest days yet in Syria's uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. More than 60 people were killed by security forces and on Saturday 100,000 took to the streets … Continue reading

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links for 2011-06-03

Ikea-ce Cream (photo) | Leefe rates the world… Finished shopping at IKEA? Hand over your 50 cents, and receive a cone and token to feed the machine. Then watch the self serve soft serve go to work. (tags: ping.fm ice … Continue reading

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Ikea-ce Cream (photo)

Finished shopping at IKEA? Hand over your 50 cents, and receive a cone and token to feed the machine. Then watch the self serve soft serve go to work.

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links for 2011-06-02

Crackdown on telcos will ban misleading ads and 'bill shock' Telcos will be forbidden from using advertising terms such as "cap" and be forced to implement supermarket-style unit pricing and new measures to prevent bill shock under strict new regulations … Continue reading

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