Category Archives: Web sites

Web sites that I thought were eithor good, quite bad, or contained something funny.

Vodafone Data Addon 500MB $9.95, 1GB $9.95

Looking at the Vodafone site I noticed that there are some strange combination of pricing. Take for example the Plan Add Ons page. Here you can see that, when you get to the 12 month contract data addon sets, you … Continue reading

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Rent this studio, comes with man peeing

When taking photos to advertise your rental property, remember to think about what the other people in the shot are doing (or look like they are doing). It is good to know that all facilities work, but we don’t need … Continue reading

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Apartment, 1 bathroom, no bedroom

Perusing Domain.com.au I noticed the perfect apartment for someone that doesn’t spend much time at home. Who just drops in occasionally to freshen up. Then off again. 1 bathroom and no bedroom. And close to public transport on Marrickville Road. … Continue reading

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And Delicious.com went berserk…

So you try for some self promotions. Set your blog to automatically post to Delicious and twitter. And since you submit links to Delicious you want them posted daily to your blog. And them Delicious goes berserk. Deciding to post … Continue reading

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Australian Internet Blackout WordPress Plugin

I have been a bit lax recently about posting to my blog, and updating the Conroy’s Christmas present list. But my spare time has been taken up learning to write WordPress plugins. For my first WordPress plugin I present the … Continue reading

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Which anti filter group should you belong to?

One of the big problems is the anti filter campaign at the moment is its divided front. There is no clear leader giving direction to the campaign. The No Internet Censorship site, run by the Australian Democrats, has an interesting … Continue reading

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Bookmarking in the iTunes store

Do you ever find things in the iTunes store and think “I don’t want that now, but might be interested later”? Wouldn’t it be nice to have a bookmark feature in iTunes? Well its good to see that I am … Continue reading

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Conroy’s Christmas present, Internet censorship #nocleanfeed

Stephen Conroy has delivered his Christmas present early, ISP level Internet filter. Tuesday afternoon the government announced that was giving the green light to its controversial censorship plan. And Conroy stated that we can look forward to legislation being introduced … Continue reading

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SMH has coffee problems

This morning the Sydney Morning Herald site seems to have had a few problems. The homepage displaying pages of Java error messages in place of articles (in a nice bright red and yellow). At all seems to have been rectified … Continue reading

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Are you a twit about trends?

With the recent death of Molly Sugden, twitter has been abuzz with tribute tweats to her. The hash tag being used is #MrsSlocombesPussy which, as you can see, displays no search results. Although, without the hash, MrsSlocombesPussy displays a list … Continue reading

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