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Technorati: Last blog refernce 38 years ago

Have you looked at your Technorati profile recently? Just looking at it now I noticed that nobody has referenced my site for 13,796 days. That seems like a long time. A quick use of the calculator shows that that works … Continue reading

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AI advocates believe we have passed the event horizon, soon we will see Hal

At the centre of a black hole there lies a point called a singularity where the laws of physics no longer make sense. In a similar way, according to futurists gathered for a weekend conference, information technology is hurtling toward … Continue reading

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This web site begs the question, Y

The new Ian Thorpe Aquatic Centre* web site looks visually ok, and it has some general text about the Centre. But all the useful information is only contained in downloadable PDFs. Why? Aren’t web sites put up to convey information … Continue reading

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This is one very sick game

A fantasy plague that accidentally ran amok in the internet’s most popular game world, populated by nine million flesh-and-blood players, may help scientists predict the impact of genuine epidemics, according to a study released Tuesday. World of Warcraft is being … Continue reading

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Australian Roleplaying @ AboutUs

I recently came across About Us, a web directory of domains that uses a wiki as its underlying engine. Most of the pages are created by a bot. You enter the domain name, and the bot collects information about the … Continue reading

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100 on MySpace

My profile clocker over to 100 years and MySpace didn’t blowup. I’m a little disappointed. I was looking forward to sparks, or at least something strange displaying where the number of years should. And all you get is the following: … Continue reading

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Privacy concerns with MySpace

When entering information in MySpace you are given the option to hide some things, but they break their option and show the info in other places. And it turns out that MySpace are ageist. Hide your dob? MySpace gives you … Continue reading

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Y, sometimes, X doesn’t mark the spot

Been having trouble getting X Windows forwarding to work from my Mac. It used to work, but hasn’t worked for a bit. Turns out that from Mac OS X 10.4 stuff was changed and the ssh ‘-X’ flag doesn’t work … Continue reading

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Stuck in a web game

Having just finished all my Uni assignments I have a lot more free time now, and a need to de-stress. So what do I do that doesn’t require too much brain power and is not important? Someone pointed me in … Continue reading

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T&C are paramount to science fiction

There is a competition for the new Transformers movie on the Australian SciFi channel’s web site. Unfortunately there are some quality control issues with the competition entry form. What you need to tick The form asks for your details, requires … Continue reading

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