Generated by All in One SEO v5.0.0.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Leefe rates the world... ...insert witty one liner ## Posts - [The season changes from Christmas to strawberry](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/12/16/the-seasons-change-from-christmas-to-strawberry/) - The seasons are important in Tokyo, and things often change for the season. The types of clothes on sale, food at restaurants, and even the type of chocolate milk available. Just a few days before Christmas we can see that the season is already changing. Van Houten Cocoa, a chocolate milk, is changing from its - [What makes you a local?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2019/12/24/what-makes-you-a-local/) - Examining what makes you a local, a response to the question on Chris Bath's Evening show - [Algie computing (definition)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2023/11/20/algie-computing-definition/) - algie computing / algae computing / noun: Where a software project grows to consume all resources in your computing pool if left unchecked. - [e-waist (definition)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2023/10/20/e-waist-definition/) - e-waist / e waist / noun: Someone's middle that has expanded due to the over use of technology. Often caused by too much office work. "Fred realised his e-waist was generated by sitting behind a desk at the computer all day, rather than going outside for a walk." - [Steinography (definition)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2020/12/31/steinography-definition/) - steinography / steinography / noun: The art of concealing and transmitting messages in German beer mugs. "Agent P, your contact will be at the German pub. Prepare for some steinography." - [Irate Pirate vs. I Rate Pirate (definition)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2021/02/01/irate-pirate-vs-i-rate-pirate-definition/) - Irate Pirate \ noun: The label given to very angry pirates. Often characterised by more cursing and waving of swords, flintlock Pistols, and other object than usual. "The pirate staggered into the tavern. Cursed at avery second person they passed, and stuff from their last voyage. That was one irate pirate. " I rate pirate - [I browse recipes vs. Eyebrows recipes](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2018/08/24/i-browse-recipes-vs-eyebrows-recipes/) - When your cooking ideas just go the wrong way - [Hungry escalator only leaves kids shoe at Woolworths #photo](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2013/01/20/hungry-escalator-only-leaves-kids-shoe-at-woolworths-photo/) - The escalator had stopped. And stuck at the end was a small child's shoe. The escalator must have been hungry, if all it left was a shoe. Shoppers were inconvenienced, trudging down the busiest escalator at Woolworths Town Hall. Past this lonely kids shoe at the bottom. Did the store employees receive counselling after this - [Up and Down, a new tune by Green Chilli Music](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/11/22/up-and-down-a-new-tune-by-green-chilli-music/) - After a couple of years break I have sat down and composed stuff and GarageBand again. The latest tune by my alter ego Green Chilli Music is Up and Down. An attempt to use the less is more technique in song writing. It only uses 6 loops, with some effects. Trying not to sound like - [New music: Chill out Chilli](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/12/12/new-music-chill-out-chilli/) - Finished exams for the year. No more commitments, save Christmas. Time to relax and do things I haven't had time for recently. So, after not touching GarageBand for 2 years I thought it was something to try again. I wanted a piece that didn't require too much effort, and matched my relaxed mood. Using just - [Wake up, Wake up](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2005/09/12/wake-up-wake-up/) - Submitted my first song to MacJams.com, titled 'Wake up, Wake up'. Waited my 24-48 hours for it to be processed, and is online now. You can find my song Here. Edit: With the death of MacJams, this song has moved to Wake up, Wake up on Sound Cloud - [Frantic Computer by Green Chilli Music](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/06/14/frantic-computer-by-green-chilli-music/) - The computer places its call... Hello... Yes... No... Yes... Yes.. No. No. No. Ahhh..... What do computers talk about? And don't they sometimes sound a little frantic? This is an experimental piece. I was interested to try writing a tune using some of the sound effects that come with Garage Band. Have a listen at - [Jump start my warp drive by Green Chilli Music](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/04/05/jump-start-my-warp-drive-by-green-chilli-music/) - Written back in June 2010 but not posted till now because I didn't have an image for it. :) The song was written as an experiment with sound effects. I thought it would be interesting to choose sound effects in Garage Band and seeing if I could write a song around them. Seeing as I - [Cryptoecurrency (definition)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2019/08/27/cryptoecurrency-definition/) - Cryptoecurrency (or Crypt toe currency)\ noun:A currency used by grave robbers, necromancers, and other denizens of graveyards. Mostly comprised of toes collected from dead bodies. - [The Blog with No Posts](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2016/12/31/the-blog-with-no-posts/) - There's nothing so lonesome so morbid or drear As a blog with no posts for a whole friggin year - [Internet Censorship in Australia - Getup and do something!](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/11/27/internet-censorship-in-australia-getup-and-do-something/) - Federal Minister for Communications Stephen Conroy is trying to implement mandatory filtering of the internet amid public outcry. Online "activists" at Getup have organised a campaign that has received over 22,000 signatures in just one day, in an attempt to put a stop to it. read more | digg story - [Art on traffic light controller. "days one" by Stephen Evens](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2015/07/20/art-on-traffic-light-controller-days-one-by-stephen-evens/) - How does your suburb deal with monotony of every day utility objects and make them more interesting? Walking around Bondi Junction I found some nice beautification, including art on traffic light controller. These are all titled "days one" by Stephen Evens. I'm sure are more than these 3 I found around the streets. 1, 2, - [UFO descents through clouds at sunset to snatch man](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2015/06/21/ufo-descents-through-clouds-at-sunset-to-snatch-man/) - A striking image I caught at sunset in Chinatown, Sydney. The man looks over his shoulder, just as the UFO descends to snatch him. - [220g @CadburyAU blocks are on special at @Woolworths, except they are only 200g blocks](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2015/04/29/220g-cadburyau-blocks-are-on-special-at-woolworths-except-they-are-only-200g-blocks/) - Cadbury chocolate blocks are shrinking to 200g, but Woolworths still marks them as 220g on sale tags. I think we have an issue here - [links for 2011-04-09](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/04/10/links-for-2011-04-09/) - Franchisees face legal battle | Angus & Robertson | Borders | REDgroup The administrators to the collapsed REDgroup Retail announced this afternoon that they have initiated court proceedings against the breakaway Angus & Robertson franchisee group that this week purported to terminate their agreements with the parent company. (tags: Angus&Robertson REDGroupRetail rebel FerrierHodgson SteveSherman franchise - [OZ Internet filters insufficient to filter politicians](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/12/14/oz-internet-filters-insufficient-to-filter-politicians/) - Parents are worried about their children looking at the Australian Prime Minister's or Oppositions Leader's web site, when they should be finding out about pop stars. Worried about the bad influence this could have, their children growing up to be politicians themselves. - A funny parody of the current Internet filtering debate.read more | digg - [Politicians line up to donate words to Charles Firth's Museum](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2013/11/29/politicians-line-up-to-donate-words-to-charles-firths-museum/) - Recent news coverage about Charles Firth's Museum of Words has reached the parliaments of Australia, and he has scored somewhat of a coup. While The Guardian see the museum as a failed stunt, many politicians are lining up to loan words. "Can't use a word while on load to the museum? What a brilliant idea" - [Real reason the government is removing foil from people's roofs](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/04/14/real-reason-the-government-is-removing-foil-from-peoples-roofs/) - The real reason the Australian government is removing foil from people's roofs... ...orbital mind control satellites - [Current Internet spam, electoral advertising](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/11/22/current-internet-spam-electoral-advertising/) - There is a law that electronic advertising for elections in Australia must cease 3 days before the election, the last TV ads ran last night, but this law doesn't apply to the internet. So expect to see lots of adverts on your favourite news and social sites. For example, off at the Sydney Morning Herald - [What's on Anthony Albanese's shopping list?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/11/14/whats-on-anthony-albaneses-shopping-list/) - I received this shopping list and magnet from the local member recently. A nice pad and a useful selection of contact numbers. It is interesting the order the phone numbers are in, not alphabetical. The first set of numbers are emergency numbers and local police stations. Then local governments and last general community numbers. The - [Your rights at work have been hocked](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/11/09/your-rights-at-work-have-been-hocked/) - Why hasn't anybody come up with this as a slogan yet? - [Schemes Cobra couldn't achieve, but the banks are trying](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2014/10/23/schemes-cobra-couldnt-achieve-but-the-banks-are-trying/) - G.I. Joe's Cobra has some mad schemes, like replacing all the money with it's own. It should have become a bank, and things might work out better. - [Why you don't space people in a closed ecosystem #The100](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2014/10/03/why-you-dont-space-people-in-a-closed-ecosystem-the100/) - Having just watched the first episode of The 100, I felt the need to write about one flaw of the episode. Why are they spacing people they don't like? It's a waste of resources. I can see the rational for removing people. They have a small society, limited space to contain it and feel the - [Surry Hills lanes in the rain (photo collection)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2014/09/30/surry-hills-lanes-in-the-rain-photo-collection/) - Back lanes of Surry Hills wet after the rain. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 - [Construction site squeezed into Chippendale behind Central Park, Sydney](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2014/08/30/construction-site-squeezed-into-chippendale-behind-central-park-sydney/) - Inner city Sydney seem to be full of construction sites building apartment blocks, or converting old buildings into them. Here is a shot of one construction site squeezed between buildings in Chippendale, with cranes overhead. - [Light and shadow play on lanes in Surry Hills (photo collection)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2014/08/15/light-and-shadow-play-on-lanes-in-surry-hills-photo-collection/) - Walking round the back lanes of Surry Hills at lunch time, looking at the lines of light and shadow falling across them. 1 - [web sites as graphs](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2006/10/06/web-sites-as-graphs/) - Do you ever wonder what a computer thinks of your web site? How does it perceive the relationship between tags? Probably not the sort of thing you do every day. I found a Java Applet online that creates coloured graphs from the html of web pages. Not quite what computers see. More an artists interpretation. - [City of Sydney Council warning users to give way to ET overhead #photo](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2014/07/13/city-of-sydney-council-warning-users-to-give-way-to-et-overhead-photo/) - Around Sydney there are more signs to remind pedestrians about cyclists. Amongst there I found a few telling pedestrians to be aware of Extra-Terrestrials over head. I mean, what else would a bicycle displayed above the people mean? (If this means nothing to you, you need to go watch more 80's SciFi movies.) - [Alone on the station? Beware of zombies...](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2013/08/14/alone-on-the-station-beware-of-zombies/) - I took this shot of a man coming down the escalator of a seemingly empty station. It reminds me of thriller movies when, that extra the camera has been following walks into an empty public space, only to be attacked by the film's malevolent entity. Of course, if the extra is really the protagonist, they pull - [LEGO - Everything is Awesome!!!, for 5 hours?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2014/07/07/lego-everything-is-awesome-for-5-hours/) - Having just watched the LEGO movie, and thoroughly enjoyed it, I thought it would be fun to create a Spotify playlist Emmet would enjoy. - [Lines to infinity on Central Station (no, not the queues) #photo](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2014/05/10/lines-to-infinity-on-central-station-no-not-the-queues-photo/) - Lines of light and shadow on the platform extending to a point at infinity. Central Station, Sydney - [VodafoneAU - Don't URL me, I'll URL you (vfau.me/dcg4n)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/06/29/vodafoneau-dont-url-me-ill-url-you-vfau-medcg4n/) - 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. So they are going to change the way they charge for data, but don't really - [Changes on NSW public Transport tickets due to Opal cards](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2014/04/26/changes-on-nsw-public-transport-tickets-due-to-opal-cards/) - Opal cards are changing the way public transport ticketing works in NSW. Some questions I have about how this affects pensioners and families. - [Premier's Reading Challenge (PRC) and related goodies](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2014/03/26/premiers-reading-challenge-prc-and-related-goodies/) - The Premier's Reading Challenge is on in many Australian states. But the App only works in Windows 8, is in US English and suggests you also get the Lotto App. - [Door 404: Apartment Not Found #photo](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2014/03/17/door-404-apartment-not-found-photo/) - Wandering the halls. Looking for an apartment. And, all I get is this 404 error message! - [Oh, no, #PowerRangersSamurai have been raiding #Madonna's wardrobe](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2013/03/17/oh-no-powerrangerssamurai-have-been-raiding-madonnas-wardrobe/) - In the world of children's toys, there are some strange combinations out there. Take for instance this Mighty Morphin Rita Repulsa figure, a villain from Power Rangers Samurai. Has she been raiding Madonna's wardrobe? Are conical bras still in vogue? What would Jean Paul Gaultier think of this? And, more importantly, what impression does this - [When Dr Who needs to chill out, he reaches for his Tardis bong... #photo](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2012/11/16/when-dr-who-needs-to-chill-out-he-reaches-for-his-tardis-bong-photo/) - Walking past Galaxy Bookshop in Sydney CBD I noticed what Dr Who must use when he needs to chill out... the Tardis bong. Oh, wait, it's just a tea pot. - [Look, the #zombies have been upgraded, to #Cybermen!](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2014/01/31/look-the-zombies-have-been-upgraded-to-cybermen/) - In King's Comics I spotted these shiny figures lurching towards shoppers. And it occurred to me... Don't Cybermen remind you of zombies? Zombies clad in metal perhaps. But really, they just want you for your brains.... ...care for an upgrade? - [Um @Apple, the #Mac #AppStore Top Free aren't all #free !?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2013/12/30/um-apple-the-mac-appstore-top-free-arent-all-free/) - Browsing the Mac OS X App Store today, I noticed that only 58% of the first 12 Top Free Apps are actually free! Is this a miss-classification of applications? A data entry error? Or the Australia tax I get for using the Australian Apple store? The full Top Free list doesn't have the same problem, - [Cthulhu walks into your pub, what do you offer? Lovecraft beer!](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2013/08/17/cthulhu-walks-into-your-pub-what-do-you-offer-lovecraft-beer/) - I saw this sign on The Local Taphouse in Darlinghurst. It reads like you are playing a Call of Cthulhu role playing game. Lovecraft beer? Only when the Ale Stars' Membership are right! - [When $2.50 is 20% of $7.50 at Coles](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2013/08/02/when-2-50-is-20-of-7-50-at-coles/) - It's funny, but a little worrying, when supermarkets can't do maths correctly on their signs. I suppose this is erring on the side of caution, saying you get 20% but giving you 33%, rather than saying you get 33% any only giving you 20%. Which makes sense from a legal perspective, giving you a bigger - [Kill Bill, the new killer women's fashion](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2013/07/30/kill-bill-the-new-killer-womens-fashion/) - The new fashion trend gracing windows of the Queen Victoria Building in Sydney is black & yellow. Very reminiscent of The Bride from Kill Bill. Upstairs are the dresses and tops. And downstairs, the matching shoes. Are these clothes you would kill for? Or, do they leave you feeling jilted? - [Questionable specs for the new Mac eTax software](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2013/07/02/questionable-specs-for-the-new-mac-etax-software/) - The ATO has finally released their Mac eTax software, but the computer requirement seem a little strange. I understand having one of the last 3 Mac OS X versions (10.6, 10.7 10.8) as a requirement. But the hardware requirements seem a little strange. Have you tried running any of these 3 OSs on a Pentium? - [Need an anti-virus solution? Try this new (no)power solution](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2013/07/01/need-an-anti-virus-solution-try-this-new-nopower-solution/) - Are you having problems finding an adequate anti-virus to protect the users you support? Try this new (no)power solution. Removing the possibility of unintentional or intentional installation of malware or viruses. It reduces infection rate to zero. And is a green solution, reducing your power consumption. (Warning: This may also decrease productivity of users.) - [Low tech high tech, or just old tech](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/07/10/low-tech-high-tech-or-just-old-tech/) - Going through a collection of old things in my parents garage I found these 2 PC expansion cards (which I guess are ISA). Look how many chips they have, and the huge head sinks. And yet, I think they are just serial cards based on the ports attached to them. Hasn't PC hardware shrunk over - [Caution! Portal floor cleaning in progress!](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2013/06/09/caution-portal-floor-cleaning-in-progress/) - When warning signs go up to for floor cleaning, often they are just to make you aware of the dangers of slippery floors. Where as, this one for Portal floor cleaning warns not to step too close, or you might get sucked in. - [(Cardboard) Tank outside #QVB, #Sydney for the anniversary of #TiananmenSquare](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2013/06/04/cardboard-tank-outside-qvb-sydney-for-the-anniversary-of-tiananmensquare/) - A (Cardboard) Tank outside the Queen Victoria Building, Sydney for the anniversary of Tiananmen Square. See tank-8964-1 - [NZ Police look for alcohol and drugs in Wee Waa NSW at Daft Punk concert](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2013/05/18/nz-police-look-for-alcohol-and-drugs-in-wee-waa-nsw-at-daft-punk-concert/) - Not only do NZ authorities appear to have overstepped the law to pursue people like Kim Dotcom. According to SMH, NZ Police visit Daft Punk concert in NSW. - [Have you signed up for a Qantas debit card? No, neither have a lot of people it seems...](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2013/05/11/have-you-signed-up-for-a-qantas-debit-card-no-neither-have-a-lot-of-people-it-seems/) - I received an email from Qantas trying to flog me their new debit card. The first paragraph got me thinking: "We’ve had so much interest in the exciting new Qantas Card and Qantas Cashâ„¢ that we’ve decided to extend the registration of interest deadline by another week to 19 May 2013." Specificity the "We've had - [AI advocates believe we have passed the event horizon, soon we will see Hal](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/09/09/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 a point where machines will become smarter than their makers. (SMH, 9 Sept 2007) read - [Dora the lead paint explorer](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/08/02/dora-the-lead-paint-explorer/) - Dora is recalled from exploring. Sesame Street is no longer giggling. Barney is facing extinction. Mattel is recalling 83 models of Fisher-Price toys. In Australian the product recall is estimated at 43,000 and in the USA at nearly 1,000,000. An article from Associated Press, appearing in many publications, indicates that there were quality control errors - [A Taste of Exploratory Testing by Anne-Marie @Charrett #photo](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2013/05/09/a-taste-of-exploratory-testing-by-anne-marie-charrett-photo/) - Photos from tonight's 'A Taste of Exploratory Testing' given by Anne-Marie Charrett down at Google in Pyrmont. In interesting talk about what exploratory testing actually is, and how you can convince management that you are not just 'playing around'. - [When your gingerbread men don't sell. Invert and add antlers](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2013/04/13/when-your-gingerbread-men-dont-sell-invert-and-add-antlers/) - When your gingerbread men don't sell. Invert them and add antlers. You now have reindeer. But, isn't it the wrong time of year for those? - [Sunset corridor in Ultimo](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2013/04/10/sunset-corridor-in-ultimo/) - The sun sets at the end of of a corridor between buildings. The light posts draw you down the path, which souls wander along. - [Buzzle in the news again](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2005/09/15/buzzle-in-the-news-again/) - Buzzle, the failed merger of 80% of the Australian Mac resellers, is in the news again 5 years after they went splat. Apparently the Buzzle liquidator is suing Apple for for contributing to the companies colapse. Article in the Australian - [Analysing the Time 100 influential results](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2013/04/08/analysing-the-time-100-influential-results/) - Time have their '100 most influential people' poll on at the moment. It is interesting to analyse the voting results so far. Like the person with the most 'Yes' votes has almost double the number for the next person, but has 27% more 'No' votes. Mohamed Morsi, president of Egypt. Assad has the 3rd highest - [Everyone needs a mugshot... or two... or three...](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2013/04/04/everyone-needs-a-mugshot-or-two-or-three/) - Everyone needs an avatar. What with all the social media services you need to stick one on these days. Do you use the same face for Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Tumbler, Gravitar, AOL, Yahoo and all the others (the list goes on)? How do you present yourself to the world? What's your mugshot? - [A poke in the eye con?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/03/20/a-poke-in-the-eye-con/) - Seeing as Necronomicon is not running this year another group decided to run their con at Easter, Eyecon. From their FAQ they intend to run it each year. Will it be the new Easter convention in Sydney? I went and signed up to see how their registration process works, and to see if there was - [A visit to #Eyecon2013 (run by @SydneyRPG)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2013/03/31/a-visit-to-eyecon2013-run-by-sydneyrpg/) - Some photos from my visit to Eyecon 2013 yesterday. The culture at RPG conventions seems to have improved since I was last at one. And they now have a session specificity for children. - [It's an overhead walkway Clearance sale. Now only 3.6 million #photo](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2013/01/09/its-an-overhead-walkway-clearance-sale-now-only-3-6-million-photo/) - There is a clearance sale on for overhead walkways at Macquarie University. Now only $3.6m. - [Conroy's Christmas present, Internet censorship #nocleanfeed](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/12/17/conroys-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 next year, ahead of the election. Yesterday news sites, blogs and twitter erupted in a - [blockdelete.com is a scam!](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/01/01/blockdeletecom-is-a-scam/) - I just got 3 messages from one of my MSN contacts, all URL that redirect to www.blockdelete.com. A site that wants your username and password so that "Our system will login with this information and learn who has blocked you". blockdelete.com is a scam!! Any site that wants your username and password, however benevolent it - [Bookmarking in the iTunes store](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/12/26/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 not the first person to want it. Back in 2003 Chuck Toporek wrote an iTunes - [England reclaims America](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/02/17/england-reclaims-america/) - Do you find programs with English dictionaries where all the spelling is actually in U.S. English annoying? Or that a 'World series' doesn't include people outside America? I found a funny take on this in John Cleese’s “Letter to America”. A notice revoking their independence and informing them of the changes that will be made. - [Books on Business Modelling at UTS library are dangerous #photo](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2013/02/16/books-on-business-modelling-at-uts-library-are-dangerous-photo/) - A sign around the construction site for the new UTS library warns people of the dangers of Business Modelling, and not enter these books. - [Has the Subscriber Agreement printing run out of Steam?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2013/01/13/has-the-subscriber-agreement-printing-run-out-of-steam/) - Just updated Steam on my Mac, and on relaunch I get this 'nice' Steam Subscriber Agreement notice that I need to agree to before continuing further. Not wanting to try reading the whole agreement in white text on a black/grey background, I thought take advantage of the Click here to print link (and turn it - [Censoring the censorship debate in Australia](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/10/30/censoring-the-censorship-debate-in-australia/) - The introduction of an R18+ rating for computer games has been delayed indefinitely after South Australian Attorney-General Michael Atkinson withdrew his support for a discussion paper and public consultation process. Mr Atkinson has refused to allow the release of the paper on "pros and cons" of introducing an adults-only rating for games. read more | - [StarCraft2 Beta & StarCraft on Intel Macs](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/06/15/starcraft2-beta-starcraft-on-intel-macs/) - Recently read on a tweet that Blizzard are looking for people to Beta test StarCraft 2. Seems nice. You have to login to Battle.Net, and tick an 'opt me into beta testing' box. But I can't seem to remember what my Battle.Net password is, and it says my credentials for getting it reset are not - [I was going to try 'self-scan', but couldn't find my own barcode #photo](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2012/12/22/i-was-going-to-try-self-scan-but-couldnt-find-my-own-barcode-photo/) - So, all the big name supermarkets are implementing self-scan checkouts. Is this to make checkout faster? Reduce staffing numbers? Save the supermarkets money? Or just put more load back on the customers? A bit like 'client side scripting' I suppose. Although, some checkout operators have complained about the amount of down time and the number - [Yoda, make ads for @CitiBankAus, he does #photo](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2012/10/02/yoda-make-ads-for-citibankaus-he-does-photo/) - You know that times must be tough for Yoda when you find he has to write advertising for Citibank. Make everyday, fee free. We have. - [Concerned about the safety of the Red Shirts at the Apple Stores. Will they all make it through Christmas?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2012/11/26/concerned-about-the-safety-of-the-red-shirts-at-the-apple-stores-will-they-all-make-it-through-christmas/) - Looking into my local Apple Store, I noticed all the employees were wearing Red Shirts. Combined with the look and feel of the store, like something out of a Star Trek episode, I'm concerned about their safety. Will they all make it through Christmas? - [It seems, @ClickFrenzy, some retailers' websites have crapped themselves even before 7pm](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2012/11/20/it-seems-cyberfrenzy-some-retailers-website-have-crapped-themselves-even-before-7pm/) - An alliance of Australian retailers trying to make themselves still relevant in the online shopping world (something they have ignored for may years hoping it would die) have decided to try and emulate the US's Cyber Monday with their effort called Click Frenzy. Although, David Jones has decided to jump ship, opting to run its - [Cthulhu was here? #photo](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2012/11/18/cthulhu-was-here-photo/) - Looking down into my bowl of noodles at a restaurant in China Town tonight, I couldn't help but imagine a bowl of yellow and green tentacles. They tasted very good, but, was the place visited by an Elder God before I turned up? - [Fruit shown is illustrative of flavour only and is not an Ingredient of the product](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2012/11/10/fruit-shown-is-illustrative-of-flavour-only-and-is-not-an-ingredient-of-the-product/) - Don't those new 13 flavour weeks Slurpees from 7 Eleven look interesting? I've seen ones that are half watermelon, half strawberry, and the latest one is half passion fruit. But wait. Have your read the text at the bottom of the advertising posters? Fruit shown is illustrative of flavour only and is not an Ingredient - [I can not divine the use for these 'Divination Symbols', can you?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2012/11/07/i-can-not-divine-the-use-for-these-divination-symbols-can-you/) - Looking through the Mac OS X Character Viewer, I see there is a section for 'Divination Symbols'. They all look like blocks of horizontal lines in a variety of combinations. Some full times, some with breaks in the middle and other more like a series of dots. What do you use them for? Apart from - [Inner city kiddom](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/07/09/inner-city-kiddom/) - There is a current baby boom in inner city Sydney. And it is putting strain on the resources that weren't expecting it. Just ask RPA who down sized their labour ward before the boom. If you walk around Newtown you will notice a increase in number of babies over the last few years. Other inner - [Photos of Lightcloud, @MPesce's #sekritproject seen at @Fishburners tonight](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2012/10/05/photos-of-lightcloud-mpesces-sekritproject-seen-at-fishburners-tonight/) - Tonight Mark Pesce showed off his secret project at Fishburners. A light cube with integrated computer/web server, that can be remotely controlled via Wi-Fi; can react to movement of the cube; and can talk to another cube via Wi-Fi. And, in case you missed the joke earlier, here is Mark's 'See Kitt Project'. (Created from - [What do mad scientist birds have in their laboratories? #cartoon](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2012/09/21/what-do-mad-scientist-birds-have-in-their-laboratories-cartoon/) - What do mad scientist birds have in their laboratories? Beakers, of course. :) - [.com.au .com domains are not supported at this time @Netregistry](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2012/09/04/com-au-com-domains-are-not-supported-at-this-time-netregistry/) - Netregistry currently has a promotional discount offer on .com.au and .com domains displayed on its from page. But if you try to register one, the error message below is displayed (click the image to enlarge). So, it looks like Netregistry's registration system is broken. What a bad time for it to happen. I wonder if - [Incase or In Case ?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2006/08/28/incase-or-in-case/) - I have seen a number of people write incase when they really mean in case. What's the difference? Incase refers to being enclosed within. Like "Incase that penguin in ice". Also spelt encase. Where as in case refers to doing something 'in the event of' or 'as a precaution'. eg "you better set the penguin - [Should we just put UTS on ice? (photo)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2012/08/09/should-we-just-put-uts-on-ice-photo/) - Walking past the UTS Tower Building this morning a spied an ice rink under construction. A woman stood there filling the rink with water to be frozen by the tubes running underneath. Is this what happens when lecturers tell you to 'get your skates on'? With a quick search, I see there is an event - [What is the collective noun for people wearing fluoro? (photo)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2012/07/24/what-is-the-collective-noun-for-people-wearing-fluoro-photo/) - Walking past Central Park in Broadway, Ultimo today I noticed this large group of people wearing fluoro vests walking along together. Which sparked the question, what do you call a group of people wearing fluoro? What is the correct collective noun? At one point I would have said the correct term was 'ravers', but, as - [[Insert customer data privacy clause or law here, if applicable]](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2012/07/13/insert-customer-data-privacy-clause-or-law-here-if-applicable/) - Don't you just love sites where the owners forget to update defaults or fill in bits that have been left blank in the default template? It just shows those who are 'detail oriented', or not. If you look at the screen shot from an online store below, you will notice at the bottom text where - [Looking up at clouds over Central Park construction](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2012/06/27/looking-up-at-clouds-over-central-park-construction/) - The work on these buildings at Central Park in Broadway seem to be progressing on quite well. Here is a shot looking up at the construction with clouds passing overhead. - [Resident Evil project management: Think Global Kill local](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2012/07/08/resident-evil-project-management-think-global-kill-local/) - Visiting the movies today, I noticed a new poster for Resident Evil: Retribution. With an interesting take on a common project management mantra "Think Global. Kill local." Other comments on this poster: Think Global. Kill Local. With These NEW Posters for RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION (SciFi Mafia, 31 January 2012) (So possibility not so new a - [Sun 212 Planet 6 Moon 8 16 by Green Chilli Music](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2012/07/04/sun-212-planet-6-moon-8-16-by-green-chilli-music/) - A new song with a different direction. Trying for a faster pace, but also ambient. And, yes, is another space themed one. :) Listen to it on MacJams: Sun 212 Planet 6 Moon 8 16 - [There was a young man named Fred #limerick](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2012/07/01/there-was-a-young-man-named-fred-limerick/) - There was a young man named Fred. Who liked to stay in bed. He slept with a pillow, And strangely a willow, That was comfortable for his head. - [Mega Elephant Ear Ninja Master #cartoon](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2012/06/29/mega-elephant-ear-ninja-master-cartoon/) - While Mega Elephant Ear Ninja Master can hear enemies coming from far away, it impacts his ability to communicate in comics. He can only have speech bubbles on one side. - [Carbon Dating - Periodic Personals](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2012/06/14/carbon-dating-periodic-personals/) - Name: Carbon Bio: My lucky numbers are 6 and 12. I once flirted with 14, but that was only a half life. Works well in groups. particularly with other Carbon, Hydrogen and Oxygen. But, Oh, some people are against this last combination. Good at bonding. I can often spare electrons for you. I like to - [Incorruptible #26 is broken and comiXology don't seem to care](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2012/06/05/incorruptible-26-is-broken-and-comixology-dont-seem-to-care/) - Some time ago, I found that the copy of Incorruptible #26 on the comiXology iPhone App was broken. Checking the online version, I found it broken too. I have tried to contact comiXology about this problem, twice, and am still waiting to receive an answer. Using their contact form, on the 13th of April I - [T2: I'll be black (cartoon)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2012/05/28/t2-ill-be-black-cartoon/) - Combining a dark science fiction movie and a tea shop chain with the same name... ...you are visited by a robot teacup from the future, with only dark intentions... - [links for 2011-01-05](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/01/06/links-for-2011-01-05/) - The internal email The internal email from the advertising agency about the GST for online purchases campaign that they want to run. (tags: FD email GST Myer BernieBrookes SMH) Revealed: retailers' secret tax strategy The secret strategy of the retailers to drum up support for their controversial campaign against GST-free online shopping on foreign websites - [404 blogs not found or blogs are not scholarly](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/11/04/404-blogs-not-found-or-blogs-are-not-scholarly/) - Trying to look up stuff on Google for uni I found an internal link with a 404 page. If you are in Google Scholar , have searched for something and then go to the more page you will find that the Blog Search link gives you a 404 error page. So I suppose that blogs - [Which SciFi crew do you belong to?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/11/01/which-scifi-crew-do-you-belong-to/) - Which sci-fi crew would you best fit in with? (pics) created with QuizFarm.com You scored as Babylon 5 (Babylon 5)The universe is erupting into war and your government picks the wrong side. How much worse could things get? It doesn't matter, because no matter what you have your friends and you'll do the right thing. - [Warning: Cybermen spotted at Freedom!](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2012/05/22/warning-cybermen-spotted-at-freedom/) - Cyber ottomen are infiltrating people's homes thanks to "Freedom" - [A new superhero for free comic book day, chick-N](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2012/05/05/a-new-superhero-for-free-comic-book-day-chick-n/) - A new superhero, chick-N. - [Waiting at table infinity. Hope we aren't served in numerical order! (photo)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2012/05/02/waiting-at-table-infinity-hope-we-arent-served-in-numerical-order-photo/) - Waiting at table infinity. I hope we aren't served in numerical order! - [Robot Nerd 1.0 (cartoon)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2012/04/27/robot-nerd-1-0-cartoon/) - Say hi to robot nerd. Here is version 1.0. I'm going to add some more detail and colour it in for version 2.0. :) - [Miss M (cartoon)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2012/04/25/miss-m-cartoon/) - A drawing of my Miss M, albeit, looking a little older than she is. - [Bacon a cake for @RenaiLeMay (for earlier this week) #cartoon](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2012/04/06/bacon-a-cake-for-renailemay-for-earlier-this-week-cartoon/) - Here is a cartoon I cooked up for Renai LeMay's birthday. Hope you had a good one. Or should I say "Happy Baconthday" ? :) - [Hold on, that's a thong (photo)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2012/04/04/hold-on-thats-a-thong-photo/) - In Australia they're called thongs, though elsewhere people call them flip-flops, but, did we really need a vending machine of them? (Spotted in The Galleries Victoria, Sydney) - [2:01 AM v1.0 and counting...](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2012/04/01/201-am-v1-0-and-counting/) - This post should appear at 2:01 AM. But will it appear twice? Or maybe be tweeted twice? At 3:00 AM daylight saving ends today in Eastern Australia. And time is wound back to 2:00 AM. So this is a test to see what happens when the clock is wound back.. And if my blog automatically - [This afternoon's weather justified carrying round an unbrella all day (photo)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2012/03/28/this-afternoons-weather-justified-carrying-round-an-unbrella-all-day-photo/) - The massive downpour this afternoon easily justified carrying round an umbrella all morning. Just before 1pm there were a few drops, and then the rain bucketed down. Turning gutters into rivers, overflowing onto footpaths when cars went past. And by 3pm the skys were calm again. - [Robot (unfinished) (cartoon)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2012/03/18/robot-unfinished-cartoon/) - A robot waiting for its arm to be finished, the connecting cables just dangling. (One of my recent experiments into producing coloured cartoons.) - [Electrolux new power razor, for that stubborn beard (photo)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2012/03/27/electrolux-new-power-razor-for-that-stubborn-beard-photo/) - Leaving the building I noticed this box waiting for someone to collect it. And was slightly shocked. I didn't realise that Electrolux had gone into the power razor business! But what a razor it must be, coming in a box that big. How many different accessories must there be? Or is it just the giant - [Auntie Histamine (cartoon)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2012/03/26/auntie-histamine-cartoon/) - Doesn't everyone have an aunt that is a little larger than life? - [Oh, no, it's a Dos Attack! (cartoon)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2012/03/17/oh-no-its-a-dos-attack-cartoon/) - Look out! There's someone wielding a 5 1/2 inch diskette! Don't let it anywhere near your computer! - [The latest campaign to stop an oppressive regime? #EndRoadwork](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2012/03/15/the-latest-campaign-to-stop-an-oppressive-regime-endroadwork/) - Walking past UTS today I was confronted by this sign in the middle of the foot path. Is this a part of a protest movement against another oppressive regime? Another cause they we should all be standing up in support of? Everyone please support the End Roadwork campaign. - [Having fluro for breakfast at Westfield (photo)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2012/03/06/having-fluro-for-breakfast-at-westfield-photo/) - A row of workmen dressed in their fluro jerseys watch TV as they eat breakfast in Westfield Sydney Central Plaza. I suppose they have to eat breakfast at some point, and there weren't many other customers in the food hall. I just thought it looked funny they all watching morning TV shows. - [Sheltering from the rain, while waiting for a bus to Balmain (photo)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2012/03/08/sheltering-from-the-rain-while-waiting-for-a-bus-to-balmain-photo/) - In the downpour this morning (around 8:30am) masses huddled under the awing behind the Queen Victoria Building waiting for a 441 or 442 to Balmain. Unfortunately there had been an three car accident on the Anzac bridge causing traffic delays. Not that the buses are know for being on time after 8am. Over 30 minutes - [Happy Mardi Grass (cartoon)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2012/03/03/happy-mardi-grass-cartoon/) - As you stand watching the parade a float goes by with what appears to be a field of lush grass. And the people standing on the back shout out... - [NSW trains stopping with enough precision to meet doors on the platform?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2012/02/28/nsw-trains-stopping-with-enough-precision-to-meet-doors-on-the-platform/) - Today's Sydney Morning Herald has an article about the ways the state government is looking to 'ease peak hour train crush'. Some of the things though I just don't see working. Like the intention to: "introducing ''screen doors'' between platforms and trains to alleviate Sydney's worsening peak hour crush" They have this in Japan, but - [Highlighting organic on your sign? Maybe use green text? (photo)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2012/01/29/highlighting-organic-on-your-sign-maybe-use-green-text-photo/) - Noticed this supermarket in Glebe highlighting the fact it sells organic products by putting the word organic in a different colour. But, if you are going to go to that much trouble, is black really the correct colour for the word? Don't you think it might make more sense to have it green? Which even - [Would you give this werewolf to your 3 year old?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2012/01/28/would-you-give-this-werewolf-to-your-3-year-old/) - Found this werewolf in a toy store. The packaging says for ages 3-8 years, but really, do you think this is the sort of thing you would give to a 3 year old? Yes, the 3-8 years labelling is probably about safety guidelines for the product. I still think it is marketed at the wrong - [Can't go outside mum, the neighbours look angry](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2012/01/08/cant-go-outside-mum-the-neighbours-look-angry/) - Look mum, I know I promised to go outside today and do some planting... ...but the neighbours look a bit angry. And I really don't want them to blow up at me! Some funny screen captures from Minecraft. Click for a larger view, or visit on flickr. - [Where do they get the extra cheese from? (photo)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/12/23/where-do-they-get-the-extra-cheese-from-photo/) - Packets of Bega cheese display an extra 25% offer at the moment. I suppose the extra 25% must come from somewhere. And some packs seem to be be shorted as a result. - [Experienced 101 Ukuleles @White Rabbit Gallery](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2012/01/05/experienced-101-ukuleles-white-rabbit-gallery/) - Well, I don't know if there were actually 101 Ukuleles at White Rabbit Gallery this evening. But it was quite an interesting musical experience. When I arrived a queue had formed out the front of the gallery, although it moved along quite fast, and we were inside in no time. Click the images or see - [Remember not to use the display toilets in IKEA! (photo)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/12/15/remember-not-to-use-the-display-toilets-in-ikea-photo/) - It is funny to find signs telling you not to use the display toilets in IKEA. I wonder how many people would use the toilets in a public place if not signposted? - [Danger Cow (photo)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/12/10/danger-cow-photo/) - Is it a job for danger cow? Or just someone else's job to fix it? It is a pity when children's playgrounds fall into disrepair, and they just get danger tape put on them. I wonder if children understand to avoid taped rides? - [Deflated Santa (photo)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/12/08/deflated-santa-photo/) - Santa feeling a little worn out and deflated from all the work he is doing this Christmas. - [Escalator Up and Down (photo)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/12/04/escalator-up-and-down-photo/) - Photos up and down on the long escalator in Westfield Sydney going up fro Pitt St. - [Lots of green crap, or Just flush it: a tale of green toilet paper](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/05/16/lots-of-green-crap-or-just-flush-it-a-tale-of-green-toilet-paper/) - Shopping in the local Coles supermarket today I noticed that there are now 4 brands of 'green' toilet paper. It is interesting to note that the green market must be getting bigger if it can service this many brands. Now, while I have not test driven all the available brands, I can see that they - [LinkedIn's April Fools day joke](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/04/02/linkedins-april-fools-day-joke/) - Logging into LinkedIn today I noticed an interesting selection of People you may know. As these people will probably all disappear after today, I took screen captures for you to have a look at in the future. You can find the PDFs below. (Yes, I wrote this in April, thought I should go through and - [Preliminary results of testing...](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/12/31/preliminary-results-of-testing/) - And the preliminary results of my testing are in. It appears that Akismet, Efficient Related Posts and Twitter Tools are the trifecta. Having just these three plugins enabled causes the blog to stall on post. Well it posts, but it displays a 'page not found' error rather than a 'your post has been posted' message. - [Christmas Eve, all spoons are banned, no stirring!](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/12/24/christmas-eve-all-spoons-are-banned-no-stirring/) - As the poem says: 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; So put those spoons away people. - [Geeks For Dinner ? (cartoon)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/12/07/geeks-for-dinner-cartoon/) - Feeling a bit peckish? How about geeks for dinner? - [Psychiatrist to the lightbulb (cartoon)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/11/28/psychiatrist-to-the-lightbulb-cartoon/) - Cartoon along the lines of the how many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb joke, with a Freudian addition. Q. How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb? A. One–but the light bulb has to really want to change. Lightbulb joke (Wikipedia) Light bulb jokes Light Bulb Jokes [rec.humor.funny] - [Reel Girl Geek (cartoon)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/12/07/reel-girl-geek-cartoon/) - Do you have a reel to reel girl? - [Download Xcode at 3000+ KB/sec](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/06/12/download-xcode-at-3000-kbsec/) - Yes, you read that correctly. I downloaded the Xcode 3.0 disk image at an average of 3000 KB per second. So the 1.1 GB file took less than 6 minutes. Ah the joys of having an optical link. Now if only most sites could deal with the speed. :) - [DSL or Optical? Why not get both?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/05/07/dsl-or-optical-why-not-get-both/) - Finally got my own Internet connection here in Japan. :) Have been suffering for a month using the apartment complex's shared wireless connection. About 10 minutes usage an hour randomly in 1-2 minute increments. Not to mention the slow connection speed. So what sort of connection did I get? Optical, but not optical. The modem - [Pruning wiki users, is there an extension for that?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/11/23/pruning-wiki-users-is-there-an-extension-for-that/) - If you manage any wiki you know that spamers love them. They just drop by, register a new users, and add some link spam. Now, there is an extension for MediaWiki wikis to remove all the spam pages, Nuke. But what do you do about all the spam users? Is there an extension for bulk - [Holy foreskin batman...](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2006/11/19/holy-foreskin-batman/) - The weird things you came across when randomly browsing through Wikipedia. This can go in the list of Wikipedia pages that you probably don't need to read: Holy_Foreskin - Wikipedia - [Australian RPG conventions at Wikipedia](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2006/11/28/australian-rpg-conventions-at-wikipedia/) - Due to the all but complete lack of Australian conventions on the Wikipedia Gaming convention page (only 1 convention listed), I have added all the other roleplaying conventions in Australia I know of (another 14). Only question is, does CanCon actually have any role playing games these days? And if not, should it be listed - [rLunch - is your robot feeling hungry?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/11/17/rlunch-is-your-robot-feeling-hungry/) - Cartoon of what robots might eat for lunch. Transistors and capacitors with silicon chips perhaps? rLunch - is your robot feeling hungry?, a photo by TenguTech on Flickr. - [Twitter Tools causing my blog to hang on post](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/11/13/twitter-tools-causing-my-blog-to-hang-on-post/) - I apologise to all those people having to deal with my/their twitter stream being spammed. Was having a problem with the blog hanging on posting a new entry. And needed to do some testing. From all my testing I can say that the Twitter Tools plugin is causing my blog to stall when I post - [End of the World 2.0.11.11.11.11.11.11](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/11/11/11-11-11-111111/) - Welcome to End of the World 2.0.11.11.11.11.11.11 If you are reading this message then either: The world has not yet ended in your time zone yet The message has been posted too early Someone stuffed up their prediction Sorry for the inconvenience. :) - [Go for the rubbish 3 pointer (photo)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/11/07/go-for-the-rubbish-3-pointer-photo/) - Have you seen all those pink dots around the Sydney CBD? It appears there are pink basketball markings down a pedestrian mall near Wynyard. So if you are in the area after lunch, try a 3 pointer into the bin with your rubbish. - [Shopping for trouble, trolleys & fire exits don't mix](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/11/05/shopping-for-trouble-trolleys-fire-exits-dont-mix/) - There are people who walk 'their' shopping trolley back home to this apparently block. But those that leave their trolley in front of the Fire Exit, despite the KEEP CLEAR sign, are just shopping for trouble. - [A cartoon for Halloween 2011, Ready to check out?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/10/31/a-cartoon-for-halloween-2011-ready-to-checkout/) - A little dark cartoon for Halloween 2011. Are you ready to check out? - [Opinion on Automated checkouts](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/11/13/opinion-on-automated-checkouts/) - Coles are installing automated checkouts in their stores. I had the unfortunate experience of being pushed into using one yesterday in World Square. Ok, I only had 1 item to purchase. And there was a person there to 'help' people to learn to use the thing. But really, why press all the buttons for me - [Trolley Bay, your new playground @Bunnings (photo)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/10/30/trolley-bay-your-new-playground-bunnings-photo/) - Sign I spotted outside the Bunnings at Mascot. So, is the trolley bay your new playground? - [A shower rose by any other name](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2006/10/19/a-shower-rose-by-any-other-name/) - Had the head fall off my shower today. How useful do you think the internet would be for finding the cost of a replacement? Not very. I tried looking up prices on Hardware retailers web sites. No prices, not even a catalogue. Starting with Miter10. I wondered why they web site wasn't working[1], until I - [Freudian Coke (photo)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/10/28/freudian-coke-photo/) - Now, tell me how you feel about sharing this Coke with your mum? - [Get the scoop at UTS building 10 (photo)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/10/11/get-the-scoop-at-uts-building-10-photo/) - Next to building 10 at UTS there is a big hole in the ground, getting bigger. Excavation is well underway on the site for the new Faculty of Engineering & IT building. A concrete platform has been constructed for trucks to park on as rubble is scooped into them. - [How's your Spanish sausage? (photo)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/10/18/hows-you-spanish-sausage-photo/) - Shopping for chorizo in David Jones, and I noticed a typo in their sign. Well, a missing first letter. 'ade in Australia' Perhaps the sign producer needed some aid, and, unfortunately, I do too, because I seem to have taken a photo where you can't even see the thing I am trying to make a - [Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-10-16](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/10/16/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2011-10-16/) - @mpesce (2 * 0.5GB + 2 * 2GB) + 10% GST = 3.3GB in reply to mpesce # You should be more original :) RT @GeordieGuy: My name. RT @citizen_cam: What's the origin of your Twitter name? # @witmol You need ear plugs then in reply to witmol # @GeordieGuy i think thunder came in - [Calci Yum 4x250mL for $5.99, now $23.96 a Litre at Woolworths](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/07/19/calci-yum-4x250ml-for-5-99-now-23-96-a-litre-at-woolworths/) - Calci Yum flavoured milk is now on special at Woolworths. You now get a 4 pack of 250 ml bottles in chocolate of strawberry for only $5.99, great at $23.96 per Litre. Wait a sec. I think there is a multiplication problem here. :-? NB. In Australia, supermarkets now display unit prices on price tags - [Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-10-09](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/10/09/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2011-10-09/) - Can we have seconds? RT @delimiterau: No minutes taken at secret BitTorrent meeting: http://t.co/NFfSnhCT # Makes me think of network cables. RT @GeordieGuy: O_O http://gguy.me/6k # @OhCrap Must wash hands after mango otherwise you get stuck/attached to things :) in reply to OhCrap # @catsparx Now you can pine after these Tintin keyrings :) http://t.co/xdxeQCRx - [Moove has changed their branding (yet again)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/10/06/moove-has-changed-their-branding-yet-again/) - Moove flavored milk has changed it's branding again. But I don't think it will help much. The problem with Moove is the Flavour, not the packaging. - [What do they hope to net with that? Flying fish?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/10/03/what-do-they-hope-to-net-with-that-flying-fish/) - Strung across George Street, between Sydney Town Hall and Woolworths, is a colourful green and orange net. What do you suppose they are trying to catch? Some flying fish perhaps? No, most likely they are trying to catch the general public's attention for the Art & About festival, on in Sydney from 23 September to 23 - [Choose cheese with care, you may not have been dealt a full pack](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/09/28/choose-cheese-with-care-you-may-not-have-been-dealt-a-full-pack/) - Notice the 3 pack with only 2 packs in it? Someone much have got the munchies for cheese while going round Coles. Or it just packed up and left itself. - [The key(ring) to Tintin (photo)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/09/22/the-keyring-to-tintin-photo/) - A large selection of Tintin key-rings spotted in Modern Tines in Newtown. Should satisfy most Tintin obsessed, or cause turmoil trying to decide which to get. - [Concrete chress (photo)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/09/24/concrete-chress-photo/) - Concrete laid in alternating black & white, just like a big chess board. Where should I step next? Which chess piece am I? - [Get pumped at UTS (concrete not iron)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/09/30/get-pumped-at-uts-concrete-not-iron/) - Workers were building a platform at the site next to UTS building 10 today. Apparently it is a ledge to park trucks on while dirt is transported up to them from the excavation site. - [What do pirate babys say? wAARRRRRRR](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/09/29/what-do-pirate-babys-say-waarrrrrrr/) - A friend's recent baby prompted me to think about the sound they make. Aren't all newborns really just pirates in disguise? wAARRRRRRRrrrrrrrr.... - [Microsoft AutoUpdate for Mac 2.3.3 includes a time machine](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/09/26/microsoft-autoupdate-for-mac-2-3-3-includes-a-time-machine/) - Opening Word 2008 this evening I was prompted by Microsoft AutoUpdate to update itself to 2.3.3. But little did I know that the new update would include a time machine to download future updates. An update to AutoUpdate generally means there is something else that needs updating. (Would you just update your updater just for - [Storm clouds move in over UTS (photo)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/09/23/storm-clouds-move-in-over-uts-photo/) - At UTS this afternoon in the wind as the sky went dark and clouds moved in. It got colder, but I don't think there was actually any rain. - [Minecraft login failed! Has my account been hacked? Try updating Minecraft](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/09/21/minecraft-login-failed-has-my-account-been-hacked-try-updating-minecraft/) - I have been trying Minecraft since last year and I just started getting login errors this week. You open Minecraft, enter your Username and Password, then get the Login failed window. Searching Google for this problem I came up with posts about passwords being hacked/stolen. So I diligently went and reset my password. After which - [Even special deals can't sell new bread](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/09/20/even-special-deals-cant-sell-new-bread/) - Coles has a special deal on Abbott's Village bread. Buy 2 loves for only $6. But it doesn't appear to have worked for the their newest variety. As you can see from the photo, the shelves are completely empty of Abbott's Village bread, except for that new Malted Flakes loves. So, are people just sticking - [Shouldn't there be a building there? (photo)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/09/19/shouldnt-there-be-a-building-there-photo/) - Walking down Pitt Street mall I noticed a gap between the parts of Westfield. Wasn't there a building there until recently, that the owners would not sell too Westfield? I wonder what is going in now? - [Pay less, Talk more, but don't try to use the Internet in Sydney CBD (with Vodafone)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/09/16/pay-less-talk-more-but-dont-try-to-use-the-internet-in-sydney-cbd-with-vodafone/) - Photo taken while standing outside Wynyard station trying to access the Internet on my iPhone and getting lots of nothing. - [Japanese anti-grope phone application](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/11/06/japanese-anti-grope-phone-application/) - In Japan there is a problem of women being groped by on trains. As a way to combat this an anti-grope application was written for mobile phones games developer Takahashi. Released back in 2005, but only recently becoming popular, the application displays a series of warnings of increasing anger, from "Excuse me, did you just - [links for 2011-09-15](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/09/16/links-for-2011-09-15/) - Before CGI: Rare Photos From the Set of 'Return of the Jedi' Take a journey with us thirty years into the past. Before the world wide web, before internet forums and blogs. Hell, before Usenet groups and Compuserve. This was when movie spies were more like real spies. Belly-crawling with real cameras loaded with real - [links for 2011-09-11](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/09/12/links-for-2011-09-11/) - Wikileaked cable: AFACT was MPAA’s cat’s-paw • The Register the cable confirms what iiNet and others have long suspected: Hollywood’s choice of target reflected iiNet’s Goldilocks status. iiNet was just right: Telstra is large, loud, litigious, and possessed of significant lobbying experience (tags: WikiLeaks AFACT MPAA MPA iiNet diplomaticcable RobertDMcCallum Telstra Hollywood MikeEllis TheRegister RichardChirgwin) - [links for 2011-09-10](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/09/11/links-for-2011-09-10/) - The day Apple won the Flash fight — Apple News, Tips and Reviews Adobe announced its new Flash Media Server 4.5 late Thursday afternoon, and it’s an iteration Apple device owners should be very happy about. For the first time, Flash Media Server now enables same-source video delivery to both Apple devices and Adobe Flash-compatible - [links for 2011-08-30](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/08/31/links-for-2011-08-30/) - Out of TouchPad | Leefe rates the world... Add around Sydney CBD are these signs advertising the wonders of a new device. Wouldn't you just love one? Doesn't it look great? Well, you are too late, and (tags: ping.fm advertising computer hp touchpad) - [links for 2011-09-09](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/09/10/links-for-2011-09-09/) - Telcos told to get real on cost of phone calls Mobile phone advertising should also clearly show the costs of sending a standard domestic SMS and downloading one megabyte of data in Australia, as well as the number of two-minute calls - the average length of a call made from a mobile - that are - [links for 2011-09-03](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/09/04/links-for-2011-09-03/) - iPhone hacker golden boy hired by Apple What do you do when you have $76 billion cash in the bank and a 19-year-old hacker repeatedly thwarts your army of engineers' attempts to lock down your smartphone and tablet platform? Bring him into the tent, of course. (tags: Apple iPhone iPad NicholasAllegra comex JailbreakMe jailbreak SMH - [links for 2011-09-08](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/09/09/links-for-2011-09-08/) - DigiNotar Removal Follow Up at Mozilla Security Blog Earlier this week we revoked our trust in the DigiNotar certificate authority from all Mozilla software. This is not a temporary suspension, it is a complete removal from our trusted root program. Complete revocation of trust is a decision we treat with careful consideration, and employ as - [What would you fork out for this clock?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/09/10/what-would-you-fork-out-for-this-clock/) - Looking for something in the electronics section of Kmart I found this clock surrounded by forks and spoons. Can I get an Asian version surrounded by chop sticks? - [Out of TouchPad](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/08/30/out-of-touchpad/) - Add around Sydney CBD are these signs advertising the wonders of a new device. Wouldn't you just love one? Doesn't it look great? Well, you are too late, and so are the ads. HP has already canned the TouchPad. And, in a fire sale of a discontinued product, Harvey Norman sold the $599 device for - [links for 2011-08-26](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/08/27/links-for-2011-08-26/) - What Apple Employees Saw When They Logged In This Morning [FUNNY] Apparently employees at Apple were presented with an interesting Software Update this morning, Tim Cook. (tags: Apple CEO TimCook SteveJobs GizmoCrunch) - [links for 2011-08-28](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/08/29/links-for-2011-08-28/) - On the plus side, they fit PLUS-SIZE models might have stolen the limelight at the Sydney Fashion Festival, but one observer wants the term discarded. (tags: plus-size model fashion Sydney ChristineMorgan ButterflyFoundation SydneyFashionFestival BMI PeterMorrissey IMGFashionAsiaPacific DanielHill AustralianFashionWeek SMH ShellyHorton KateWaterhouse) - [links for 2011-08-21](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/08/22/links-for-2011-08-21/) - Critics label cybercrime bill 'invasion of privacy' A CONTROVERSIAL bill that extends the powers of Australia's police and security agencies to retain emails, text messages and other data used in alleged cyber crimes has encountered a roadblock, with a committee recommending significant changes. (tags: cybercrime bill Attorney-General RobertMcClelland FBI dataretention privacy civilliberties AustralianPrivacyFoundation NigelWaters CatrynaBilyk - [links for 2011-08-24](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/08/25/links-for-2011-08-24/) - Antony Green's Election Blog: Calls for a Double Dissolution are Constitutionally Impossible Anthony Green's reasoned voice stating that the call for a Double Dissolution of parliament is not possible at the moment, so people should just shut up about it. (tags: Australia government election doubledissolution HouseofRepresentatives Senate ABC AnthonyGreen) - [Photos from SibSyd on 13 August 2011](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/08/25/photos-from-sibsyd-on-13-august-2011/) - Here are photos from the presentations and talks at the Social Innovation Sydney Barcamp on Saturday 13 August 2011. - [links for 2011-08-17](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/08/18/links-for-2011-08-17/) - Stop Coddling the Super-Rich - NYTimes.com Warren Buffett thinks that the USA's leaders are asking the poor and middle class to make a 'shared sacrifice' but not the mega-rich, who he believes are not paying enough tax. (tags: WarrenBuffett rich tax USA IRS poor) Larry Page Just Made Apple And Microsoft Look Like Fools Dan - [links for 2011-08-07](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/08/08/links-for-2011-08-07/) - Internet use ‘rampant’: ASIO boss • The Register Australia’s national security is at risk, according to the Director-General of ASIO – the Australian National Intelligence Organisation – partly because of “rampant use of the Internet”. (tags: Australia ASIO DavidIrvine Internet security SMS TheRegister RichardChirgwin) Goods tax on internet sales won't save shops THERE are strong - [iTunes Wild Wild West in German? This is Australia not Austria!](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/08/15/itunes-wild-wild-west-in-german-this-is-australia-not-austria/) - Browsing the Australian iTunes store I came across Wild Wild West. But that Plot Summary is not in English. It appears that Apple has confused us with Austria (perhaps). Unfortunately my German isn't good enough to read the summary or listen to the Trailer. Although it is funny to watch Will Smith and Kevin Klien - [links for 2011-08-02](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/08/03/links-for-2011-08-02/) - Grandmother has Tokyo's measure on radiation Grandmother in Tokyo buys her own dosimeter and shows that the government has not been telling the truth about radiation levels. (tags: Tokyo radiation grandmother KiyokoOkoshi dosimeter GeraldCurtis ColumbieUniversity ChuheiSakai KazuyoshiSato ShinzoKimura NewYorkTimes SMH KenBelson) - [What do you use for baby showers?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/08/06/what-do-you-use-for-baby-showers/) - A friend had a baby show today, and I was supposed to send advice. Feeling I had already made some suggestions I drew this as a bit of comedic relief. - [links for 2011-07-12](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/07/13/links-for-2011-07-12/) - Verisign obeys court orders for domain takedowns- The Inquirer INTERNET REGISTRY Versign has said that it "takes the appropriate actions" when handed a court order after the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) claimed it had jurisfiction over all web sites that use the .com and .net top level domains (TLD). (tags: Verisign ICE - [links for 2011-07-13](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/07/14/links-for-2011-07-13/) - Pirate Party Opposes AFACT's Extortion Tactics | Pirate Party Australia Pirate Party Australia is opposed to the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft's (AFACT) latest offensive against Australian internet users[1]. They have demanded that ISPs attend 'voluntary talks' to implement a graduated response regime (commonly known as 3 Strikes) before the conclusion of the iiNet trial - [links for 2011-07-20](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/07/21/links-for-2011-07-20/) - Masses need transport to escape a cold, wet Sydney CBD | Leefe rates the world... Today has been a very wet day in Sydney. This morning you almost needed a bathysphere to go outside. This afternoon, as the masses tried to leave the city, (tags: ping.fm bus photo rain sydney) Calci Yum 4x250mL for $5.99, - [links for 2011-07-23](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/07/24/links-for-2011-07-23/) - Software Update asks me to install 2 copies of iTunes 10.4 | Leefe rates the world... Today, in its infinite wisdom, Software Update decided that I needed to install 2 copies of iTumes 10.4. Now, while I understand that Software Update must have (tags: ping.fm itunes macos software update) New Sydney parking police uniform | - [In the movies it seems the numbers change](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/07/27/in-the-movies-it-seems-the-numbers-change/) - Earlier this month I wrote about TotalFilm’s top 50 Science Fiction films and who the top SciFi actors and directors were. Well it appears I made a mistake and forgot that Sigourney Weaver also appeared in Avatar. So, she now has 3 movies in the top 50 and moves from the bottom up the list - [Top SciFi movies listed, but who are the top SciFi actors and directors?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/07/07/top-scifi-movies-listed-but-who-are-the-top-scifi-actors-and-directors/) - The results are in for TotalFilm's top 50 Science Fiction films. With a deserved, but it seems from the comment, controversial first for Blade Runner. (You can find the SMH write up on the list here.) While others might pick apart why the different films have made it to the top list, I am interested - [New Sydney parking police uniform](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/07/22/new-sydney-parking-police-uniform/) - With all the rain at the moment in Sydney, I'm sure the parking police need a new uniform. When do you think they will be handed out wetsuits and flippers? - [Software Update asks me to install 2 copies of iTunes 10.4](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/07/21/software-update-asks-me-to-install-2-copies-of-itunes-10-4/) - Today, in its infinite wisdom, Software Update decided that I needed to install 2 copies of iTumes 10.4. Now, while I understand that Software Update must have been very excited about the release of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, I think I'll let it cool down for a bit before choosing which iTunes update I - [Masses need transport to escape a cold, wet Sydney CBD](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/07/20/masses-need-transport-to-escape-a-cold-wet-sydney-cbd/) - Today has been a very wet day in Sydney. This morning you almost needed a bathysphere to go outside. This afternoon, as the masses tried to leave the city, queues of wet people cramed onto buses. - [No Smoking! The fire extinguisher is missing!](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/07/13/no-smoking-the-fire-extinguisher-is-missing/) - Ah, the sighs they put up near fire extinguishers. Though I suppose this one is correct. Don't catch fire as we don't have an extinguisher to put you out. - [links for 2011-06-30](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/07/01/links-for-2011-06-30/) - Single-Payer in Vermont, A State of Healthy Firsts | Common Dreams The USA state of Vermont has decided to single-player health care as a cost saving measure. It had Harvard conduct a study which found that free health care will save the state 24.3% a year. (tags: Vermont USA healthcare insurance Harvard CommonDreams AmyGoodman) VodafoneAU - [links for 2011-06-28](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/06/29/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 or in print? Unless it's animal copulation of the non-human kind, its sale is banned - [links for 2011-07-05](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/07/06/links-for-2011-07-05/) - All things considered ... - WikiLeaks’ Brilliant Mastercard Commercial Parody... Wikileaks' parody of MasterCard Commercial. (tags: wikileaks satire parody MasterCard digitaleskimo video) - [links for 2011-06-16](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/06/17/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 serve string here. You'll have to go (tags: ping.fm joke) - [Ask STA about busses to Balmain between 8 and 9 am](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/06/22/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 want to catch a bus in the morning, waiting 30 minutes between them is rather - [A piece of string walks into a bar... (joke)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/06/15/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 quite disappointed, and walks off round the corner. Not to be deterred, it ruffles its - [100 contacts on LinkedIn, how 1337](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/06/10/100-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') - [links for 2011-06-06](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/06/07/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 to voice their anger. Images of a 13-year-old boy, brutally tortured and killed, have galvanised - [links for 2011-05-28](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/05/29/links-for-2011-05-28/) - 'Stuck in the past': investors call for Ballmer's scalp Influential hedge fund manager David Einhorn has called for Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer to step down, saying the world's largest software company's long-time leader is stuck in the past. (tags: Microsoft SteveBallmer hedgefund DavidEinhorn DowJones Apple IBM S&P500 shares LehmanBrothers SMH Reuters Bloomberg) - [links for 2011-05-29](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/05/30/links-for-2011-05-29/) - Ads Implant False Memories | Wired Science | Wired.com How your memory works, and how advertising to be used to implant false memories. (Worth reading) (tags: advertising Coke memory JournalofConsumerResearch study PriyaliRajagopal NicoleMontgomery commercial Wired JonahLehrer) News Desk: Manning, Assange, and the Espionage Act : The New Yorker (tags: WikiLeaks JulianAssange BradleyManning AdrianLamo Wired Obama espionage - [links for 2011-05-30](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/05/31/links-for-2011-05-30/) - Coles and Woolies loom as Big Tobacco's rivals Big tobacco companies are fighting the plain packaging rules. There are many arguments they put forward, but are they worried about competition from other sectors? An interesting article by Ross Gittins. (tags: tobacco mining companies lobby cigarettes tax advertising Coles Woolworths SMH RossGittins) - [links for 2011-06-02](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/06/03/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 recommended by the communications regulator. (tags: mobile telco billshock bill ACMA ChrisChapman customerservice TIO cap - [links for 2011-06-03](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/06/04/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 ikea photo) Atheist Sees Image of Big Bang in Piece of Toast Excitement is growing - [Icecream at still life](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/12/02/icecream-at-still-life/) - A chocolate ice-cream cake covered in sorbet balls. Very nice to eat, but initially hard to serve. The cake proved too hard for slicing, so was served in scoops. - [Ikea-ce Cream (photo)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/06/03/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. - [links for 2011-05-16](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/05/17/links-for-2011-05-16/) - links for 2011-05-15 | Leefe rates the world... Paintwork with Zen Brush | Leefe rates the world... Some of today's work experimenting with a new iPhone drawing program (tags: ping.fm) - [links for 2011-05-18](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/05/19/links-for-2011-05-18/) - Ben Grubb | Transcript of police interview an edited transcript of the recording made by journalist Ben Grubb during his police interview and brief arrest over the reporting of a Facebook 'break-in'. The police officers present gave permission for the interview to be recorded. (tags: BenGrubb interview transcript Facebook ErrolCoultis JonStrohfeldt SMH) Identity theft not - [Scroll Battle, an iPhone created webcomic](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/05/19/scroll-battle-an-iphone-created-webcomic/) - Scroll Battle is an experimental webcomic, drawn in Zen Brush on an iPhone and then uploaded. This page will have links to the images. - [Paintwork with Zen Brush](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/05/14/paintwork-with-zen-brush/) - Some of today's work experimenting with a new iPhone drawing program Zen Brush. Takes a bit of getting used to how the brush stroke is defined by movement. But looks to be good. - [Need to stock more chocolate milk](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/10/04/need-to-stock-more-chocolate-milk/) - Visiting the local Coles, or many other supermarkets for that matter, I find them devoid of of Oak chocolate milk. Quite often you will find full rows of strawberry or vanilla, maybe even some iced coffee. But no Oak chocolate milk. And its just the Oak chocolate milk that sells out. There will probably still - [Orange Juice for Chocoholics](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/08/16/orange-juice-for-chocoholics/) - The sign in Coles proclaimed "Made with 40% choc chips". But do you really want choc chips in your OJ? And wouldn't they get stuck in the straw? - [links for 2011-05-12](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/05/13/links-for-2011-05-12/) - Your photos? Not so according to many popular photo-sharing apps - TNW Industry There are a number of online photo sharing sites, but may of them have notes in their Terms of Service (ToS) that allow them to get payment for using your photos elsewhere. (tags: online photo photos Google Facebook Apple twitter ToS licence - [trickle treat (definition)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/10/31/trickle-treat-definition/) - trickle treat \ trickle treat \ verb: When Halloween lollies are only handed out a little bit at a time. - [a Salt and Battery (cartoon)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/05/12/a-salt-and-battery-cartoon/) - [Hyde your Easter Egg (cartoon)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/04/24/hyde-your-easter-egg-cartoon/) - Perhaps not what you are supposed to do to your children's Easter eggs. Or something for the big kids. (backposted because I didn't get a chance to post it at the time) - [links for 2011-05-10](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/05/11/links-for-2011-05-10/) - According to German TV, anti-Starfleet rebels helped take down Osama Bin Laden Last Thursday, German news channel N24 was discussing how the Navy's SEAL Team Six participated in the mission to kill Osama Bin Laden. The report started out normal, but an image search snafu took the broadcast to the final frontier. (tags: OsamaBinLaden German - [links for 2011-05-11](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/05/12/links-for-2011-05-11/) - What is the typical Australian’s income? « We are all dead. An interesting dissection of what makes a person 'middle class' in Australia. How much to they have to earn. And that the average person misunderstands what makes middle class. (Not to mention that some earning $150,000 thinking they are middle class is nuts) (tags: - [Harry's Cafe sans Wheels](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/05/08/harrys-cafe-sans-wheels/) - The original Harry's Cafe de Wheels is down on the wharf at Woolloomooloo. And there are now a number of franchises. It should be noted, thought, that the one in Haymarket is quite devoid of wheels. Perhaps best then labelled Harry's Cafe sans Wheels? Their pies are still quite good. - [Photos of Free Comic Book Day 2011](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/05/07/photos-of-free-comic-book-day-2011/) - For Free Comic Book Day this year I visited Kings Comics and Kinokuniya. Kinokuniya seemed to be more packed, and there were many people dressed up in cosplay. Kings Comics was also well attended. - [BBNT - Be back next time, I think not](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/08/08/bbnt-be-back-next-time-i-think-not/) - Trying to sort through my 365 Nights photos and workout what extra needs to be uploaded (a lot really). And I came across this photo I took of the closed BBNT (Burgers, Burritos, Nachos and Tacos) in Newtown. The store was a interesting concept, and it could have worked. But in my experience the service - [Battlestar Galactica Vs Star Wars Vs Star Trek Vs Babylon 5](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/06/30/battlestar-galactica-vs-star-wars-vs-star-trek-vs-babylon-5/) - Ever wondered what would happen if you stuck elements from major space operas into one universe? Finding this movie on YouTube I see that someone has. And has the skills to create it. Good animation and reasonably scripted scenes. (YouTube movie on full post page) (Pity that the WordPress editor is such a pain trying - [US Government wants an advance screening...](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/06/27/us-government-wants-an-advance-screening/) - Reading an article on Computerworld titled US gov't seeks builder for military robot, where the first paragraph states: "Creative scientists have until next week to submit proposals for creating a shape-shifting military robot that can shrink and then reconfigure itself to normal height and shape." Looks very much like a promo for the new Transformers - [SDP, Student Diplomacy and Politics](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/06/09/sdp-student-diplomacy-and-politics/) - The final SDP presentation was Friday a week ago. And Richard was there taking more photos. Here is another photo of the photographer. Yesterday was program demonstrations, ie does the program you designed actually work, we got 100%. So the group decided to allocate marks then and there. You can see a photo of the - [TiVo and EPG, a guide to TV programs in Australia](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/05/31/tivo-and-epg-a-guide-to-tv-programs-in-australia/) - It was interesting to read Nick Miller's article (SMH, 30 May 207) about TiVo being introduced to Australia in partnership with Seven Network*. 'Time-shift' free to air digital TV. But you need to know need to know when all the TV shows are on to record them for playback at a different time. And not - [Going round the corners](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/05/26/going-round-the-corners/) - Do you like boxes on your web sites that are square or with rounded corners? They look smoother with rounded corners don't they? More like buttons. Well CSS3 is adding a rounded corners property, but it is still not yet ratified. Some browsers have preliminary support for the draft standard, but not all of them. - [Look what came out of the box, and ate Pandora](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/05/22/look-what-came-out-of-the-box-and-ate-pandora/) - Reading a post Death By Lawyer: 10 Cool Sites We Miss and was interested to find Pandora listed there. Had been using Pandora for a while. Nice project that creates virtual radio stations based on your tastes in music. But it seems that has all gone done the tube for non-USA Internet citizens. Previously Pandora - [Do not call this web site](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/05/04/do-not-call-this-web-site/) - The Australian government site put up to host the "Do not call" list, to allow Australians to opt out of being called by market research and most of the other people that call you*, has been so overwhelmed by people wanting to register that it has been unavailable. I suppose this shows that there has - [Late night buskers](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/05/18/late-night-buskers/) - Walking through Newtown tonight there was a large crowd gathered around a band of buskers under the "I have a dream" mural in King st. Two on drums, two guitars and two saxophone players. Well done with a good feel to the music. The crowed enjoyed the music, and blocked the foot path :) Pity - [Newtown IGA is no more... (2)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/05/01/newtown-iga-is-no-more-2/) - (Follow up to Newtown IGA is no more...) I visited the 'new' store tonight. The new opening hours sign is up, and the times are the same. The supermarket in Newtown was once a Franklins, but when Woolworths bought the chain in 2001 it divested its interest in some of the stores[1]. The ACCC ruling[2] - [Newtown IGA is no more...](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/04/30/newtown-iga-is-no-more/) - Are you the sort of Newtownian that thinks at 11pm "I need some blah, better duck off to Newtown IGA" ? Well as of tonight that might be a thing of the past. :( In my jaunt off to Newtown IGA tonight I found it closed and someone scrapping off the IGA logo from inside - [Who photographs the photographer?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/04/28/who-photographs-the-photographer/) - Yesterday was the mid semester presentation for many SDP* groups. Being the subject coordinator, Richard went round taking pictures of the different presentation. (We knew it was going to happen, there are photos of last semester's groups.) So I took along my own camera along and took pictures of Richard taking pictures. :) * SDP - [Autumn Tower](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/04/06/autumn-tower/) - The UTS tower building seen through the leafless autumn branches of a tree from a bus stop across the road. (Taken on 20 March 2007) - [Necronomicon 2007 is dead, long live Necronomicon](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/03/25/necronomicon-2007-is-dead-long-live-necronomicon/) - There is now no roleplaying convention running in Sydney this Easter. According to the email I received from an organiser, Necronomicon cannot run as the venue, Newtown High School, is unavailable. Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 08:51:22 +1000 From: "Dion Dowling" Subject: Necronomicon 2007 Due to circumstances beyond our control, Necronomicon - [TV online in Australia, legal or otherwise](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/03/10/tv-online-in-australia-legal-or-otherwise/) - I noticed an article in the Sydney Morning Herald[1] suggesting that Apple iTunes will finally have downloadable TV shows in Australia. Apple is playing it down as just rumours, but iTunes 7.1 does add the ability to restrict downloaded shows by Australian ratings. The suggestion is that it has managed to do a deal with - [Bad Karma, No longer needed, Free to good home](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/02/25/bad-karma-no-longer-needed-free-to-good-home/) - If you were a Buddhist what would you put in a garage sale? This question intrigued me when I noticed that the Buddhist centre in Newtown was having a garage sale. Old scrolls or monk robes no longer needed? Small vials of swirling mists? Turns out is wasn't anything quite so interesting. Mostly just the - [Yogart](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/02/13/yogart/) - Been practising drawing tubs of Yoghurt recently. Why you might ask? Well I have an idea for a T-shirt that requires one. Been thinking of putting up a CafePress site of T-shirts, just need to get round to drawing the pictures. Here is a look at the latest version. Needs more work. - [Things not to do in an rpg...](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/02/02/things-not-to-do-in-an-rpg/) - I was recently reading a blog post of things not to do in a roleplaying game, Things Mr. Welch can no longer do in an RPG 501-950 (2006-11-28 21:36:00). There are some items that are quite funny. My favourite being: 521. I will not convince the entire party to play Amish for the cyberpunk campaign. - [Pray thee do tell...](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/01/15/pray-thee-do-tell/) - Last night my kitchen was visited by a praying mantis. You can see it here trying to be camouflaged against the bead curtain on the window. Looks nice against the orange and brown. (Click the images for larger versions on flickr) - [So much for bike security...](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/01/03/so-much-for-bike-security/) - Saw this bike chained up in Newtown. Not the best security really. I suppose the frame is still locked to the post, but everything else is missing. Wheels, seat, even the handlebars all gone. - [More Maccon photos at flickr](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2006/12/30/more-maccon-photos-at-flickr/) - Here are some more photos I took at MacquarieCon prize giving. These photos have also been added to the Australian RPG Conventions [1] group on flickr. - [A white Christmas, in Australia?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2006/12/26/a-white-christmas-in-australia/) - Doesn't happen very often, being Summer in December, but there was a white Christmas this year in Australia. On the Snowy Mountains in Victoria and NSW, and on Mount Wellington in Tasmania it snowed on Christmas eve, which was much welcomed by the fire fighters battling bushfires. References: Australia feels four seasons this Xmas (SMH, - [Australian RPG Conventions at flickr](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2006/12/21/australian-rpg-conventions-at-flickr/) - Having recently started to upload MacquarieCon photos to flicker I went looking for a flickr group of Australian roleplaying conventions, or any group with photos from role playing games in Australia. Finding no group with appropriate content I decided to create one. The result is the Australian RPG Conventions flickr group. Currently it has my - [Photos of Maccon at flickr](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2006/12/20/photos-of-maccon-at-flickr/) - I have started uploading photos I took at MacquarieCon to flickr. Interesting as a con, a more in depth review later. Here are thumbnails of images uploaded so far: - - [Continuing the superhero theme...](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2006/11/25/continuing-the-superhero-theme/) - You Are Cyclops Dedicated and responsible, you will always remain loyal to your cause.You are a commanding leader - after all, you can kill someone just by looking at them.Power: force beams from your eyes Which of the X-Men Are You? - [N, nolonger just a letter](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2006/11/17/n-nolonger-just-a-letter/) - Having a bit of a read/edit of wikipedia today and found N. More than just a letter, 'N' is a Load Runner esk game written in Flash. With 3 keys you control a ninja, running, jumping and climbing your way around each level. Ninjas have a "god-like speed, dexterity, jumping power, and reflexes", unfortunately due - [Google gobble and domains are flushed down utube](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2006/11/16/google-gobble-and-domains-are-flushed-down-utube/) - Articles of interest about Google buying YouTube. The lawsuits expected. And the problems it has caused the holder of a similar domain, utube.com. Articles: Google hedges against YouTube lawsuits (SMH, 16 Nov 2006) Policeman's YouTube email goes to utube (SMH, 6 Nov 2006) Google gobbles up YouTube (SMH, 10 Oct 2006) Boom: Google buys YouTube - [Terrorists interupt ABC broadcast](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2006/10/27/terrorists-interupt-abc-broadcast/) - I was watching the ABC news last night. And the bulletin reporter crossed to a reporter outside the Lakemba Mosque who starts giving a report about the meeting over Sheik Taj el-Din al Hilaly. Then the camera changes to showing the ground, flicks to the sky and the show cuts back to the studio with - [Pluto can go to hell...](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2006/09/13/pluto-can-go-to-hell/) - Change all the text books. My Very Elderly Mother Just Sat Upon Nine ? Astronomers can only count to eight. At a recent meeting of International Astronomical Union (IAU) it was decided to redefine what constitutes a planet. As a result Pluto changed its status and is no longer classified as a planet. And is - [What Mythological Creature Are You?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2006/09/04/what-mythological-creature-are-you/) - More displacement activities to chew up your time. Do you see your self as a mythological creature? If so Blogthings has a quiz to see if you see yourself correctly. :) You Are a Pegasus You are a perfectionist, with an eye for beauty.You know how to live a good life - and you rarely - [Adopt a Battle Imp](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2006/09/03/adopt-a-battle-imp/) - More playing with GameWyrd. Discovered this Adopt a Battle Imp thing. Interesting that is creates stats for the Imp based upon what name you give it. It even works with random and non alphabetical characters. Here are some examples: @@@@@@@'s Ilon @$%^&'s Opath Blob Blob's Irord Assasa Fggfgf Hhghg's Eaem Tshgmnbv,jnvbliu Ug ,jnb ,ugbyg Jcjhytfkuyf's - [The RPG Cynic](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2006/09/02/the-rpg-cynic/) - Feeling like a cynic? Joined GameWyrd and found they have an interesting RPG Cynic's Quest. Have you been gaming for too long and can see everything coming? So you can have a laugh here are my results: Cynic's Quest The results are in! It seems all to evident that you’re a Haunted Cynic! You earned - [oatomation](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2006/09/01/oatomation/) - oats: A cereal that is cooked and eatern for breakfast oates: Cooked oats (also called porridge) oatification: The process where oats are transformed into oates oatomation: Mechanism used to simplify the production of oates - [What gets you motivated?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2006/08/13/what-gets-you-motivated/) - Have you seen those motivational posters that have an image, followed by one word or a short phrase, and then a one line description? Well I found this interesting gallery of motivational posters with an RPG theme. RPG Motivational Posters Collected from a thread on RPG.net forums. Want to create you own motivation poster but - [Ninja vs Pirate, the Yin and Yang](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2006/08/12/ninja-vs-pirate-the-yin-and-yang/) - I was thinking about the Ninja vs Pirate thing. Sort of like the Yin and Yang. Two powerful forces that need to balance for the universe to be in harmony. I have started to draw an image along these lines. Something for a T-shirt. But in its unfinished form I'm not going to post it. - [74000 Suspended .EU domains](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2006/07/24/74000-suspended-eu-domains/) - The non proffit organisation that manages .EU domains, EUEid, has suspended 74000 of them. EURid beleives that 3 companies "are acting as a front for a number of registrars". And that the registrars are warehousing the domains in breach of contract. EURid suspends 74 000 .eu domain names due to breach of contract - [Who will be eatern first?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2006/07/24/who-will-be-eatern-first/) - Wandering Google, looking for sites about Necronomicon in Sydney (the RPG convention) I came across this interesting cartoon. Tracting the Necronomicon It has important information about why you should join a Cthulhu cult, and choose to be eatern first. - [Human edited directories](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2006/07/22/human-edited-directories/) - Recently I have been reading up on human edited directories. How they work, are they any good and can they be used to improve your ranking in search engines? Search engines use spiders and bots to index the web. These programs automatically check web pages and index them based on some algorithm. Google being the - [Ring Of Australian RoleplayING gets its own domain](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2006/06/28/ring-of-australian-roleplaying-gets-its-own-domain/) - After 9 years of existence the Ring Of Australian RoleplayING gets its own domain. www.roaring.net.au For those unfamiliar with it, the ROARING is a webring of sites about roleplaying in Australia. Containing many sites for RPG conventions, clubs and gaming groups. Previously hosted on Necronomicon.org, a change in policy by management has seen the need - [Sutekh Wiki](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2006/06/15/sutekh-wiki/) - Discovered the Sutekh wiki. Updated info about Necronomicon and added some pages that were needed, including one about the ROARING. - [Drop saws for vigilantes ](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2006/06/24/drop-saws-for-vigilantes/) - Was walking through K-Mart and noticed an item that I thought perfect for every vigilante's workshop, the Enforcer Drop Saw. - [Bad Planet](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2006/06/09/bad-planet/) - Picked up an interesting comic recently called Bad Planet. A dark sci-fi title. Nice art and interesting dialogue. Wounding when the next issue would come out I found that this one is dated 'December 2005'. Half a year ago. A quick google found only references to the first issue of a twelve part series. Ok, - [Virtual Lemmings](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2006/06/02/virtual-lemmings/) - Or should that be Virtual Virtual Lemmings? Finished my Uni assignment and thought I would read through other peoples posts about the assignment on the Uni web board. Seems some people were in need of displacement activities and found a web site with Lemmings. This version of Lemmings has been written in JavaScript. And for - [LAN Party in Queensland ?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2006/05/30/lan-party-in-queensland/) - With the proposed merger between the Liberals and Nationals in Queensland I think they have made an error with their choice of name for the new party. Their proposed name is the New Liberals. Had they chosen to just join the names, Liberals and Nationals, they would have become the LAN Party. Think of all - [Australia to legalise media shift](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2006/05/15/australia-to-legalise-media-shift/) - When you turn a CDs into MP3s to upload to your iPod you are breaking the law. In Australia copyright law does not allow for media shift. The SMH reports that the minister for communication is considering amendments to the copyright legislation that legalise this media/format shift. You will be allowed to turn your CDs - [T-shirt shops](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2006/05/09/t-shirt-shops/) - I've had a few ideas for things I thought would look good on T-shirts, both phrases and some cartoons. Not having the time to produce and market them myself I looked at the sites that offer a prefab online stores. My first test shop is with CafePress.com. The back end for a store holder is - [New iPod ad.](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2006/05/04/new-ipod-ad/) - Camera sweeps threough a cave full with rubble. Centres on a metal cage and zooms in on two people inside. Covered in dust you only see two silhouettes. White cords run from their ears to small white boxes. A voice over says "When next you get trapped in a cave remember to take your iPod". - [Petrol prices should be higher...](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2006/05/03/petrol-prices-should-be-higher/) - Or at lease that is what an interesting article by a SMH journalist says. The article says higher prices will change our consumption habbits. And that state governments should be spending more on public transport, not more on express ways. Smile, pain at the pump has pay-offs (Ross Gittins, SMH, 3 May 2006) - [Bus-ted](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2006/04/27/bus-ted/) - Outside UTS today there was a STA bus with a smashed rear window. According to the people cleaning the broken glass out the bus had clipped the side view mirror of another bus. - [Artists in Australia are asleep...](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2006/03/11/artists-in-australia-are-asleep/) - Obviously if you are an Australian artist you must be asleep (or the little girl has some idea of time difference). Dad: All I know is right now, somewhere, an artist is sitting back and laughing at us. Little girl: Or if he's in Australia, he might be sleeping. Found on the site Overheard in - [New style, WTF Taekwondo](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2006/02/23/new-style-wtf-taekwondo/) - From Shire Martial Arts Our Taekwondo Black Belt School is affiliated with the WTF, Taekwondo Australia Inc Strange organisation to be affiliated with. It appears that nobody starting the World Taekwondo Federation thought of what the initials also mean (though the other meaning is probably a little newer). - [Bastronaut](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2005/11/04/bastronaut/) - NASA accelerates the entrance of babies into the astronaut program, because in space no one can hear you scream. (This will make more sense to people who have small children) - [Lounge 5423 (Ringtone)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2005/10/14/lounge-5423-ringtone/) - My second post to MacJames.com is a little shorted. Rather than a full length sound I posted a ringtone. Lounge 5423 (Ringtone) is a 22 second ringtone with a lounge feel to it. You can find my song here. - [Web sites that work even better than they look!](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2005/10/05/web-sites-that-work-even-better-than-they-look/) - I'm not really sure if I believe the message on the site of WebMastery: Web sites that work even better than they look! One line on a plain green site that hasn't been up dated since 'Wed, 11 Jul 2001 17:47:19' [1] The Rest of the site is even more fun. The About us, Web - [IMMPD](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2005/10/01/immpd/) - Just because you can never have enough acronyms. Instant Messenger Multiple Personality Disorder (IMMPD): When you have an identity in multiple Instant Messangers (AIM, ICQ, Jabber, MSN, etc) and log in to all of them at the same time. Worse cases involve having multiple identities with the same Instant Messangers and logging in to all - [Proposed advertisement for XP](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2005/09/26/proposed-advertisement-for-xp/) - Some time in the post I wrote a joke advert for WinXP based on a RPG senario. I recently found it in Google Groups and have reposted it here for your enjoyment. :) Two D&D players are walking down the road. Player 1 is a white male, age 17-19. Player 2 is a white female, - [Tinned tomatoes](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2005/09/24/tinned-tomatos/) - Had this rhyme stuck in my head (about tomatoes, tins and a market) but I couldn't remember the whole thing. Did a bit of googling and this is what I decided it should be: To market, to market with my brother jim When somebody threw a tomato at him Tomatoes are soft & they don't - [How to write trance music](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2005/09/24/how-to-write-trance-music/) - After my first few tries at writing songs I thought I should read up on how to actually write one (or the music anyway). Looking throught Google I found the following sites. How To Write A Song Free Music Education Center Move Over, Britney Is Trance the Future Top 40? Trance music (wikipedia) - [Can't post to MacJams](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2005/09/02/7/) - I was finally got round to writing my first full length soung in GarageBand. And I was going to post it to MacJams but found I didn't have the status to do so :( Sorry, you must earn 20 participation points before uploading a song. Participation points can be earned by taking various actions in - [WP Theme](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2005/09/02/wp-theme/) - The default theme is nice :), except that the date format is fixed in the USA format :( Looks like I an going to have to find a different theme, or hack this one so the date is displayed in the correct international format. - [Just installed Word Press](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2005/09/02/just-installed-word-press/) - Just installed a new blog software, WordPress. Used to have Movable Type, but only made about 1 post and got annoyed with it (so haven't used it since early last year). Hope this new package is nicer, but it does seem that way so far. - [Necronomicon Revolution (Just past)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2005/03/29/necronomicon-revolution-just-past/) - Necronomicon 2005 is over now, and I think it was quite a successful convention. 4 days, 13 sessions, 26 games, about 150 players. People appeared to enjoy themselves and the after party at the Courthouse Hotel was lively and had many attendees. Necronomicon Revolution site - [links for 2011-05-05](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/05/06/links-for-2011-05-05/) - Interesting World: Man Unwittingly Live Tweets Raid That Killed Osama Bin Laden | Techdirt Raid it tweeted live. (tags: twitter raid live OsamaBinLaden ReallyVirtual TechDirt MikeMasnick) Why The Copyright Industry Isn’t a Legitimate Stakeholder in Copyright | TorrentFreak When the copyright monopoly and its future development is discussed, parties called “stakeholders” are frequently invited to - [links for 2011-05-04](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/05/05/links-for-2011-05-04/) - Aussie firm behind Flight Control iPhone, iPad app gobbled up by US video game giant EA US video game titan Electronic Arts (EA) is buying the Australian mobile game maker behind hit titles Flight Control and Real Racing for play on iPhones or iPads. (tags: Australia iPhone iPad game studio Firemint buy EA BarryCottle mobile - [links for 2011-05-03](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/05/04/links-for-2011-05-03/) - Facebook shoots first, ignores questions later; account lock-out attack works (Update X) Got enemies on Facebook? Facebook is so eager to protect copyright that the mere accusation of copyright infringement is enough to get an account locked. Ars found this out the hard way Thursday morning when our own Facebook page became inaccessible, with no - [links for 2011-04-28](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/04/29/links-for-2011-04-28/) - Facebook investors heading for the exits as value hits $70bn A group of Facebook shareholders is seeking to offload $US1 billion worth of shares on the secondary market, a sale that would value the company at more than $US70 billion, according to five sources with direct knowledge of the situation. (tags: Facebook shares shareholder CMEACapital - [links for 2011-04-27](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/04/28/links-for-2011-04-27/) - Facebook's complicated ownership history explained The long tale about who owns what bit of Facebook. (tags: Facebook ownership PaulCeglia EduardoSaverin TylerandCameronWinlevoss DivyaNarendra MarkZuckerberg DustinMoskovitz SeanParker PayPal PeterThiel TheSocialNetwork HarvardConnection ConnectU QuinnEmanuel i2hub WayneChang SMH Mashable) Hundreds of tweaks show Google is still searching The head of Google's search evaluation team shakes his head dismissively at - [Mac Panthers](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2004/11/07/mac-panthers/) - The joke starts: And this nerd walks into a Apple shop... Ctrl+Alt+Del - Tragically l337 Mac Panthers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 - [He had an outbreak of tornadoes](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/04/19/he-had-an-outbreak-of-tornadoes/) - "He had an out break of tornadoes" Drawn in response to a tweet by SBS news "The number of twisters from US tornado outbreak may be a record setter", which makes the tornadoes sound like an infectious disease. Quick, send in Dustan Hoffman! - [Renai's genie, In a black bikini](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/04/14/renais-genie-in-a-black-bikini/) - Always be careful what you wish for. Yesterday Renai LeMay was tweeting about the amount of polishing required for an ebook. I suggested he be careful of bring forth genies from all his polishing. To which he requested one in a black bikini. So, here Renai is your wish :) - [Australian Roleplaying @ AboutUs](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/08/07/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 domain and creates a page from a standard template. It is an interesting concept, but - [Necronomicon 13, 2001 photos @ flickr](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/08/04/necronomicon-13-2001-photos-flickr/) - I have just uploaded 6 mosaics of my Necronomicon 13, 2001 photos to flickr. In the future, when I have the time and inclination, I'll add all individual photos to flickr. In the mean time you can see them all at the Necronomicon gallery. - [Necronomicon 2002 photos uploaded to flickr](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/01/19/necronomicon-2002-photos-uploaded-to-flickr/) - Finished uploading my photos from Necronomicon 2002 to flickr last night. Previously hosted on the Necronomicon Gallery, I though they would be more accessible on flickr. You can also find them in the Australian RPG Conventions group. And the original convention site can be found here. - [Necronomicon 2001 photos uploaded to flickr](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/09/15/necronomicon-2001-photos-uploaded-to-flickr/) - Just finished uploading my photos from Necronomicon 2001 to flickr. Previously hosted on the Necronomicon Gallery, I though they would be more accessible on flickr. You can also find them in the Australian RPG Conventions group. - [links for 2011-04-17](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/04/18/links-for-2011-04-17/) - ORG Zine | The copyright battle in Australia There's little sign that the global copyright war will let up any time soon. Wherever you go, the content industries are working hard to secure stronger "protections" for intellectual property and tougher penalties against those who infringe against these protections. Given the forces they can bring to - [links for 2010-05-07](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/05/08/links-for-2010-05-07/) - Facebook Privacy Complaints The Electronic Privacy Information Centre said Thursday it had joined 14 other organisations in filing a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission charging the social networking website with "unfair and deceptive" practices. (tags: Facebook privacy FTC ABC 20100507) Four Corners - 07/05/2010: Access Denied A story that reveals how an apparently well - [Royal Easter Show cops a warning about show bags](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/04/12/royal-easter-show-cops-a-warning-about-show-bags/) - At the Royal Easter Show the other day I was interested to see pairs of police walking round in fluorescent vests and caps. Trying to stand out, I though, make sure people can see you. And then I realised that they were all fake. I see a number of other parents had a similar reaction. - [At the Royal Easter Show](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/04/04/at-the-royal-easter-show/) - Shot from the Royal Easter Show yesterday. - [Dinosaurs with eggs at David Jones for Easter](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/04/18/dinosaurs-with-eggs-at-david-jones-for-easter/) - Rather than the usual rabbits or chicks with eggs, how about he original egg bearers? Fluffy dinosaurs chocolate eggs at David Jones for Easter. - [David Jones window displays are such a drag](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/11/27/david-jones-window-displays-are-such-a-drag/) - Do you ever look at the window displays in department stores in the city? Standing at the bus stop outside David Jones women's building I was intrigued by the window display. It just felt a little odd. Don't their faces look just a little masculine to you? A little too square jawed? Now, while I - [links for 2011-04-15](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/04/16/links-for-2011-04-15/) - BBspot - Turing Test Proves 2-Year-Olds Not Human Boston , MA - Researchers at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) have used the Turing Test to determine that most 2-year-old children are not human. (tags: TuringTest MIT RogerMason CaoLi 2yearold AlanTuring machine communication BBspot FranciscoRangel) - [links for 2011-04-13](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/04/14/links-for-2011-04-13/) - Google Clarifies URL Shortening’s Impact on SEO | Search Engine Journal As social search has become more important, so has understanding how SEO works for shared links. In a new Google Webmaster Help video, Google’s Matt Cutts explains exactly how the shortened URLs are treated. (tags: Google SEO urlshortener j.mp goo.gl bit.ly MattCutts SearchEngineJournal RobYoung) - [I want a Japanese .テスト domain](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/04/12/i-want-a-japanese-tesuto-domain/) - Browsing the IANA - Root Zone Database I notices there are a few root level domains that exist for testing purposes. Scroll right to the bottom of the page and you will find .テスト (TeSuTo for those that can't read Katakana). I think it would be quite fun to have one of these. Pity they - [links for 2011-03-01](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/03/02/links-for-2011-03-01/) - Fake Social Media Army Used To Sway Public Opinion | Gizmodo Australia The US Government has been caught red-handed in the war against public opinion. Leaked emails reveal how the United States Government hired private contractor HBGary to create an army of fake social media profiles with the sole intention of swaying public opinion on - [links for 2011-03-05](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/03/06/links-for-2011-03-05/) - Computer fault - you can bank on it CONSUMERS can expect more inconvenience and disruptions to services offered by companies such as banks and airlines as a result of computer glitches, experts say. (tags: computer fail bank airline CommBank ATM NAB ASX VirginBlue UniversityofSydney AlanFekete ChrisPeterson safetycriticalsystems medical flightcontrol spacecraft SMH NickyPhillips) Journo shield law - [links for 2011-03-12](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/03/13/links-for-2011-03-12/) - Anonymous emails show cyber weapons of corporate America | Crikey Some time back I suggested the online “group” Anonymous was worth keeping an eye on. This suggestion was subsequently vindicated by the remarkable HB Gary saga involving cyber security consultant Aaron Barr who, to use Stephen Colbert’s now-famous description, stuck his penis into a hornet’s - [links for 2011-03-14](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/03/15/links-for-2011-03-14/) - U.S. Government Wins Access to Twitter Accounts of WikiLeaks Supporters A federal judge today granted the U.S. government access to the Twitter accounts of three of WikiLeaks’s strongest supporters. (tags: USA government WikiLeaks court TheresaBuchanan DepartmentofJustice Twitter BirgittaJonsdottir RopGongrijp JacobAppelbaum EFF AmericanCivilLibertiesUnion Mashable BenParr) 1st person video of tsunami A first person video of the - [links for 2011-03-16](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/03/17/links-for-2011-03-16/) - Apple copyright case over iPhone application from production company | Crikey Apple is back in the Federal Court tomorrow, facing a copyright infringement claim from Australian TV production company Jigsaw Entertainment. If Apple loses, it and every other software distributor could be forced to look more closely at the apps they sell — an expensive proposition. (tags: - [links for 2011-03-22](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/03/23/links-for-2011-03-22-18/) - Robot Suits Transform Humans Into Super Strong Cyborgs | Fast Company Cyberdine has just shown the next iteration of its HAL robots--strap-on exoskeletons that boost the user's strength with electric motors. Could they be used after the next large-scale disaster? (tags: robot Cyberdine HAL cybernetics exoskeleton TsukubaUniversity ProfessorSankai DigInfoTV HULC FastCompany KitEaton) Yahoo to 'sell - [links for 2011-03-21](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/03/22/links-for-2011-03-21-2/) - It's not over yet, that's AFACT - Twisted Wire - Blogs While there have been lofty discussions about who was right and who was wrong in the court stoush between the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) and iiNet, it all gets down to authorisation. (tags: AFACT iiNet copyright law authorisation Middletons TroyGurnett ArthurEmmett HighCourt - [links for 2011-04-03](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/04/04/links-for-2011-04-03/) - Coping with a low-bit future. Report by Public Knowledge about the bleak future when all the bandwidth runs out. Look forward to 'Peak Bandwidth'. (A parody) (tags: bandwidth PeakBandwidth internet AT&T ISP broadband AprilFools humour PublicKnowledge JohnBergmayer) Report: ‘Peak Bandwidth’ Threatens Global Economy Unless Decisive Action Taken About a report by Public Knowledge comparing AT&T's - [links for 2011-04-06](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/04/07/links-for-2011-04-06/) - Czech Constitutional Court Kills Data Retention - Falkvinge on Infopolicy In a verdict today, the Czech Constitutional Court killed the Czech implementation of the detested Data Retention Directive. Ubiquitous surveillance of every human being is not compatible with fundamental rights. That brings the number of countries to arrive at that conclusion to five. (tags: dataretention - [Militant greeny's message for Earth Hour](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/03/26/militant-greenys-message-for-earth-hour/) - Are you turning you lights off between 8:30pm and 9:30pm for Earth Hour? "Turn it off for Earth Hour, or we'll put your lights out!" - [Where you'd rather be? State of Inebriation?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/03/22/where-youd-rather-be-state-of-inebriation/) - Advertising I found in the UTS food court. Some advertising slogans a bit strange. I suppose it makes sense. But I thought it would more meaningful with the added though bubble. - [Tin Soldier in Sydney CBD has closed](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/03/21/tin-soldier-in-sydney-cbd-has-closed/) - Walking down York street I thought I would stick my head into The Tin Soldier, and found that it had closed. Further enquires to their "Perith" store or web site. As I stood there looking at the sign there were a few workers standing around about to begin the process of demolishing the inside of - [2011 NSW State Election flickr group](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/03/17/2011-nsw-state-election-flickr-group/) - I created flickr groups for the last 2 Federal elections [2007, 2010]. And, after seeing all the election paraphernalia I thought it would be fun to create one for the current New South Wales State Election. NSW Election 2011 flickr group There is just over a week till the election on Saturday 26 March 2011. - [The hole is tarred but not feathered](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/03/16/the-hole-is-tarred-but-not-feathered/) - The hole in the pavement from yesterday has been filled. With a crude tar finish. I suppose they expect the council to come round an tidy it up. Of note though is that the access to the pipe is much closer to the curb. Which may make putting a nice round corner on that curb - [Water Board finally fixes its leak](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/03/15/water-board-finally-fixes-its-leak/) - Walking past where the marking I noticed the other day was, this morning I found a rather large hole filled with water. The Water Board had dug down to the pipe that needed fixing. Although, without all that dirt packing it in it was leaking even more. Their next job was to replace the valve. - [Homebrand, the new Ikea at Kmart](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/03/13/homebrand-the-new-ikea-at-kmart/) - Walking through Kmart today I thought I was in Ikea. Checkout the bright plastic bowls, plates and cutlery I found on display. Don't they just remind you of the kids KALAS cutlery at Ikea? - [It's open outside now (photo)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/03/10/its-open-outside-now-photo/) - On leaving the restaurant tonight I noticed the sign saying outside was open now, so we could return home. :) - [Sydney Water street graffiti (photo)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/03/11/sydney-water-street-graffiti-photo/) - Here is a lovely leaking water outlet in the footpath. A few days ago Sydney Water put a witches hat on it wrote 'BROKEN SHUT' in yellow paint. Today they added a lot more writing. And a man in a Sydney Water truck said there should be someone around tonight to fix it. Come on - [Yoshinoya in Sydney](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/07/11/yoshinoya-in-sydney/) - Having been in Japan for a year it was interesting to find a Yoshinoya in Sydney, on Oxford street. Apparently it has been there for a years, and I never noticed. Inside it didn't quite feel like a Japan Yoshinoya, too much space. Though the menu looked about right (from the pictures, names didn't necessarily - [links for 2011-02-24](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/02/25/links-for-2011-02-24/) - Delimiter – Video: AFACT takes heart from dissenting judge The Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft this afternoon said it took heart from the fact that one of the judges overseeing its appeal in its copyright infringement case against ISP iiNet had found for it, despite the fact that it ultimately lost the appeal in the - [links for 2011-02-25](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/02/26/links-for-2011-02-25/) - Delimiter – Voluntary filtering on track for mid-2011 Stephen Conroy’s Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy tonight said voluntary filtering of the internet for child abuse material by three of Australia’s largest internet service providers was on track to kick off in the middle of this year. (tags: internet filter Australia government StephenConroy - [Is this the chick you are looking for?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/03/05/is-this-the-chick-you-are-looking-for/) - Smaller people in my house were drawing their own chicks, so I thought I would join in. - [Ludlam, come to the dark side of the Farce (cartoon)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/05/17/ludlam-come-to-the-dark-side-of-the-farce-cartoon/) - A cartoon inspired by the appearance of Clive Hamilton on the Four Corners episode last week. Maybe it was before I fixed the aspect ratio in iView, but Clive reminded me of the Emperor from Star Wars. - [Welcome to Melbourne - Biohazard Zone](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/06/06/welcome-to-melbourne-biohazard-zone/) - SBS reports that Melbourne has been declared 'swine flu capital of the world'. With 874 reported cases of H1N1, Melbourne has twice the prevelance of Mexico. That is a swine flue cases at 1 to 9,139 in Victoria, and at 1 to 21,860 in Mexico. Of course, there are 109,955,400 people in Mexico and only - [chk chk boom](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/06/09/chk-chk-boom/) - Inspired by the recent Sydney meme, here is today's cartoon. - [Why are zombies so popular...](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/08/28/why-are-zombies-so-popular/) - Recently, it seems, zombies have been popular, both in fiction and non-fiction. And it is interesting to see where the two converge. I've just finished Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry. A well paced book centred around a secret task force setup to intercept h-itech terrorists, who's new bio-weapon is the zombie. Worth reading. And where - [Nomadic Rug Trader](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/02/18/nomadic-rug-trader/) - Had lunch in Pyrmont today and I was thinking about an establishment called the Nomadic Rug Trader. So what do they sell? Nomadic Rugs I suppose. And do these rugs travel in herds? Perhaps they need a shepard? Which is where the Trader of Nomadic Rugs comes in. - [Bishop tries for a conversion](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/04/02/bishop-tries-for-a-conversion/) - After the recent Atheist event in Melbourne, the Catholic bishops of Australia seems to be singling out Atheists as the reason for the current drop in church a attendance. Though Atheists feel that are being made scapegoats. Perhaps the problem could be the other 'religions' of Australia? - [Fielding and Conroy play pin the censorship on the donkey](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/04/15/fielding-and-conroy-play-pin-the-censorship-on-the-donkey/) - Stephen Fielding and Stephen Conroy play pin the censorship on the donkey. Drawn after I read the announcement that Fielding had won the minor party spot on the Cyber-safety Senate committee. Of course, this turned out to be wrong, and Ludlam won the position. But I think the cartoon is fitting. - [I love the smell of filters in the morning](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/04/16/i-love-the-smell-of-filters-in-the-morning/) - The current attitude by the Australian government about the Internet filter is a worry. A self righteous disdain for anybody else's opinion. Or the collateral damage that they will cause. Reminds me of the Lieutenant Colonel from Apocalypse Now, who took joy in the deployment of napalm with no regard for the collateral damage. - [This cartoon has been classified RC](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/04/16/this-cartoon-has-been-classified-rc/) - The term RC keeps getting rolled out when referring to what the filters will block. But what does RC actually stand for? Rudd and Conroy. - [Do not cross the tracks (cartoon)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/05/05/do-not-cross-the-tracks-cartoon/) - Inspired by the signs they hang in train stations to warn you of the dangers of public transport. Crossed with thoughts of Ghost Busters' Dr. Egon Spengler 'Don't cross the streams'. (Well, I thought it was funny) - [Mowvember, mustache or lawnmower time? (cartoon)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/11/30/mowvember-mustache-or-lawnmower-time-cartoon/) - The month to grow a mustache to promote the fight against prostate cancer and depression? Or just a reminder that you lawn is overgrown and needs a going over with the lawnmower? - [Christmas Pudding Drive (cartoon)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/12/16/christmas-pudding-drive-cartoon/) - Q: What does Father Christmas use to power his spaceship? A: A Christmas Pudding Drive. At Christmas, what else would you use? Inspired by all the work places that currently run Christmas pudding drives, and the Heart of Gold. - [Christmas Pudding Drive, the road trip (cartoon)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/12/17/christmas-pudding-drive-their-car-but-where-to-cartoon/) - If your Christmas pudding were to go on a road trip, where would it go? - [Christmas Pudding Drive, the fruity storage media (cartoon)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/12/21/christmas-pudding-drive-the-fruity-storage-media-cartoon/) - What does Santa use to store his present list on? Another cartoon inspired by the tradition of businesses selling pudding for charity at Christmas. - [Christmas Pudding Drive, out on the ranch](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/12/27/christmas-pudding-drive-out-on-the-ranch/) - Where do all those pudding came from at Christmas time? Out on the local pudding ranch? - [Happy New Year from Robot Tiger (cartoon)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/01/01/happy-new-year-from-robot-tiger-cartoon/) - A friendly robot tiger waves hello for the new year. (Of course, that is the wrong Chinese new year, and I should have draw a Rabbit.) - [Happy Valiums Day](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/02/14/happy-valiums-day/) - Happy Valiums, er, Valentine's Day. And don't get too stressed - [Grid Iron, keeping programs crease free since 1982](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/02/19/grid-iron-keeping-programs-crease-free-since-1982/) - So, how do all those programs keep their clothing so smooth and unrinkled? My first submission to Threadless Critiques: Grid Iron Go have a look and comment on the design. - [Social Innovation BaaCamp #sibsyd](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/02/27/social-innovation-baacamp-sibsyd/) - A cartoon inspired by the Social Innovation BarCamp at COFA yesterday. Inspired by the pun you could do, not that I thought all the participants were sheep. - [Sydney Institute 120 year anniversary launch](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/03/01/sydney-institute-120-year-anniversary-launch/) - Walking through Ultimo this evening I caught people leaving the launch of the TAFE Sydney Institute 120 years anniversary celebration. Here you can see some of the women dressed in period clothing. - [Photos from SibSyd February 2011](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/02/27/photos-from-sibsyd-february-2011/) - Photos taken during the Social Innovation BarCamp, Sydney yesterday (26 February). I took photos of the opening presentation, the session I attended and whiteboards if written on. As well as other things I thought were interesting. The last session I attended was about EPICFAIL. And it appears my EPICFAIL was forgetting to take any photos. - [Smiggle ninjas moving to other grounds](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/10/04/smiggle-ninjas-moving-to-other-grounds/) - The Smiggle's ninjas appear to be dispersing from the store. As can be seen, the shop attendant is assisting the stickers advertising the Okinawa range of products to remove themselves from the font window, and disperse to where they can watch unsuspecting shoppers. Later a ninja dog was found guarding a nearby bin. - [4 pack of beef burgers with 5 servers at Coles Supermarket](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/01/23/4-pack-of-beef-burgers-with-5-servers-at-coles-supermarket/) - Shopping at Coles Supermarket I found the labelling on this packet interesting. The number at the top says it is a 4 pack of Angus Beef Burgers. And looking at the contents there are 4 beef paddies. But under Nutrition Information it states there are 5 servers per package. So, what does the fifth person - [Vodafone SIM only Caps advertising double data allowance](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/02/24/vodafone-sim-only-caps-advertising-double-data-allowance/) - Vodafone SIM only Caps give only half data allowance advertised on their site. False advertising or incompetence? - [The tuna that Coles rejects...](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/02/20/the-tuna-that-coles-rejects/) - Shopping at Coles I noticed an interesting occurrence in the canned fish aisle. A complete lack of Greenseas tuna. While there seemed to be an abundance of John West tuna, as well as Coles tuna, and that yellow one Sirena. There were no tins of Greenseas tuna. Not even a space on the shelf where - [links for 2011-02-05](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/02/06/links-for-2011-02-05/) - Religiously follow the rules, or catch church in bed with state Questioning the amount of money spent by state and commonwealth governments on religion, despite the constitution requiring the separation of the two. (tags: religion church government education LionelMurphy Howard KevinRudd JuliaGillard ACL JimWallace RonWilliams ClaudeBilinsky BretWalker SMH RichardAckland) Tony Abbott deflects attack on flood - [links for 2011-02-06](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/02/07/links-for-2011-02-06/) - Forget piracy law until iiNet's over: Telstra - Communications - News Telco giant Telstra has asked the government to keep potential reviews of policy surrounding copyright infringement off the table until a court case being heard on the matter is completed. (tags: government piracy law review iiNet Telstra court StephenConroy AFACT copyright ISP ZDNet JoshTaylor) - [links for 2011-02-09](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/02/10/links-for-2011-02-09/) - Online instigator tells of kidnap In a tearful, riveting live television interview only two hours after his release from an Egyptian prison, the Google executive Wael Ghonim acknowledged that he was one of the people behind the anonymous Facebook and YouTube campaigns that helped galvanise the protest that has shaken Egypt for the past two - [links for 2011-02-11](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/02/12/links-for-2011-02-11/) - UK Press Watchdog Rules Tweets Are Public Information | Epicenter | Wired.com A ruling by the Press Complaints Commissions (PCC) has given British journalists the green-light to lift tweets from social networking site Twitter. (tags: UK twitter PressComplaintsCommissions privacy DepartmentofTransport SarahBaskerville DailyMail socialmedia Wired MarkBrown) Commonwealth Bank Employees get busy! | Search Marketing Melbourne | SEO - [links for 2011-02-19](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/02/20/links-for-2011-02-19/) - DailyTech - U.S. Government Accidentally Abuses Internet "Kill Switch", Shuts off 84,000 Sites In evidence of the dangers of the U.S. government's increasing "kill switch" powers regarding web servers inside the U.S., the Department of Justice and Homeland Security’s ICE last week essentially shut down 84,000 sites in a case of mistaken identity. (tags: USA government HomelandSecurity FreeDNS - [links for 2011-02-20](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/02/21/links-for-2011-02-20/) - Crackdown on telco privacy after Vodafone bungle Vodafone's recent breach of privacy laws has triggered a check on all other telcos by the communications regulator, which is concerned poor practices are more widespread. (tags: Vodafone Telstra telco ACMA ChrisChapman telecommunications privacy VirginMobile Optus Primus GoTalk iiNet PeopleTelecom TPG EDirect Dodo customerservice SMH BenGrubb) Don't blame - [Feeling squashed on the train?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/06/03/feeling-squashed-on-the-train/) - Do you catch the train at peek hour in Sydney and feel a little squashed? An article in the SMH on Monday stated that 73.6 percent of trains were overloaded, some with up to 145% capacity usage! Of course 100% capacity only means that everyone gets a seat. So the extra 45% are left standing. - [Shop online, avoid security cameras](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/02/18/shop-online-avoid-security-cameras/) - A sign on Marcs at the Queen Victoria Building, suggesting you shop online to avoid surveillance cameras. Or am I misinterpreting the combination of signs? - [Warning: Demolition work in progress](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/02/14/warning-demolition-work-in-progress/) - Outside UTS it appears that someone got carried away and started demolition on the wall. Shows there is truth in the sign attached. - [Caution: Road Walk Ahead (photo)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/02/06/caution-road-walk-ahead-photo/) - In Broadway this afternoon there were signs directing people around the city because of a parade. Must be the Chinese New Year Twilight parade. - [links for 2011-01-31](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/02/01/links-for-2011-01-31/) - Insurance fine print for review THE federal government will consider changing legislation to prevent insurers bamboozling policyholders with complicated flood clauses when it holds crisis talks with heads of industry this week. (tags: Queensland flood insurance legislation InsuranceCouncilofAustralia InsuranceContractsAct SMH JessicaWright) Coogee Bay Hotel takes patrons' fingerprints Thousands of clubbers and pub patrons are being - [links for 2011-02-01](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/02/02/links-for-2011-02-01/) - As Egypt goes offline US gets internet 'kill switch' bill ready As Egypt's government attempts to crackdown on street protests by shutting down internet and mobile phone services, the US is preparing to reintroduce a bill that could be used to shut down the internet. (tags: Egypt USA Internet killswitch SusanCollins JoeLieberman UniversityofSydney BjornLandfeldt TrendMicro - [links for 2011-02-02](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/02/03/links-for-2011-02-02/) - Star Trek boss regrets omitting gay plots Star Trek writer/producer Brannon Braga regrets leaving gay characters out of the sci-fi franchise, insisting it was "a shame" the futuristic show failed to incorporate a wider range of sexualities. (tags: StarTrek gay plot BrannonBraga scifi SMH WENN AAP) Apple changes policy on water-damaged iPods The French website - [links for 2011-02-03](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/02/04/links-for-2011-02-03/) - World News Australia - Canada bans unlimited downloads Backed by a public outcry, Canadian opposition parties lined up on Tuesday to voice concerns about a regulatory decision that chokes off the ability of small independent Internet providers to offer unlimited downloading to their customers. (tags: Canada Internet broadband unlimited download CanadianRadio-televisionandTelecommunicationsCommission CRTC BCEInc Bell ShawCommunications - [Are you pushing the right buttons at Woolworths?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/02/02/are-you-pushing-the-right-buttons-at-woolworths/) - On the ground floor of Woolworths in Sydney CBD the lift buttons are faulty. Only the up button works. If you want to go down, and press the down button, you will be waiting a long time. It appears that they are aware of the problem. And someone has helpfully left a note in marker - [Chocolate milk expiring soon](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/02/01/chocolate-milk-expiring-soon/) - Oak chocolate milk in Coles Express, all that are left expires today. Ok if you want it now, but not good for keeping. - [links for 2011-01-20](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/01/21/links-for-2011-01-20/) - Obama officials caught deceiving about WikiLeaks - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com Whenever the U.S. Government wants to demonize a person or group in order to justify attacks on them, it follows the same playbook: it manufactures falsehoods about them, baselessly warns that they pose Grave Dangers and are severely harming our National Security, peppers all - [links for 2011-01-19](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/01/20/links-for-2011-01-19/) - Say no to cry baby retailers trying to axe the $1000 GST free rules A Facebook group against the push by big retailers to have GST applied to OS online sales under $1000. (tags: online retail GST Facebook consumer) Facebook halts plan to share contact information with app developers Facebook, in its latest privacy flap, - [links for 2011-01-22](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/01/23/links-for-2011-01-22/) - Vint Cerf's message to Australia: internet censorship isn't effective | The Australian JULIA Gillard's bid to censor the internet is not an "effective move", says Vint Cerf, one of the founding fathers of the internet and Google's chief web evangelist. Dr Cerf's advice is to attack the source of a problem at the production layer, - [links for 2011-01-25](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/01/26/links-for-2011-01-25/) - Vodafone | Mobile customers sue, seek escape from contracts A summary of all the problems Vodafone are having at the moment. Network issues, customer privacy, etc. (tags: Vodafone mobile NigelDews SMH LucyBattersby) Book Review - Cinderella Ate My Daughter - By Peggy Orenstein - NYTimes.com Is pink necessary? Is there a princess phase? Or is - [links for 2011-01-30](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/01/31/links-for-2011-01-30/) - 'Arrogant' Air France pilots ignore safety directives: report Air France staff appear to neglect safety in favour of commercial concerns and some pilots "systematically" ignore safety directives, experts wrote in an internal report seen by AFP on Tuesday. (tags: AirFrance airline safety disaster report SMH AFP) World News Australia - Australian-Egyptians tell Mubarak to go - [Are you game to eat from those bubble packs?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/01/28/are-you-game-to-eat-from-those-bubble-packs/) - I understand that the packets of meat heat sealed may have slight bubbles in them, but, it makes you wonder if there is a problem somewhere is the bubbles distort the packaging. Was it packaged that way? Or is there something causing it to expand? - [Plane, Rocket , Clouds, Sunset](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/03/15/plane-rocket-clouds-sunset/) - The sun setting over Enmore Park - [Oporto, the new McDonalds](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/04/29/oporto-the-new-mcdonalds/) - (in Marrickville anyway.) Went for a walk down Marrickville road in Marrickville a couple of days ago. It was interesting to notice the things that have changed since the last time I visited some years ago (and what hasn't). I remember the the McDonalds had closed, but not at the time been replaced. And I - [Obligatory Australia Day fireworks photos](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/01/26/obligatory-australia-day-fireworks-photos/) - Visited the Australia Day celebration in Enmore park today. Just in time to see the fireworks. So here are some obligatory photos. (Yes, I should have gotten a better spot, not behind the tree) - [links for 2011-01-21](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/01/22/links-for-2011-01-21/) - Revealed: how Vodafone dealers bend the rules posing as customers A Vodafone dealer's staff have been caught posing as customers to cancel the customers' original accounts in order to sign them up for new contracts with higher commissions. The staff members of Communications Direct Pty Ltd have also breached privacy by forwarding detailed customer call - [New dumpling fish, or testing iPhone twitter](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/01/20/new-dumpling-fish-or-testing-iphone-twitter/) - Testing out iPhone Apps for taking pictures, uploading them somewhere, and posting a link to twitter. Camera+ uploads to flicker (see photo on the right). But if you want to post to twitter it uses its own photo site. Which is a pain because it removes control of the photo from the uploader. And there - [iTunes tells me 1 app update available, but which one?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/01/12/itunes-tells-me-1-app-update-available-but-which-one/) - I recently inherited an iPhone 3G from my sister. It works ok, for my first iPhone. And I am just experimenting with what you can do with it and what is worth putting on it. At which point I encounter my first silly user interface feature of iTunes 10. iTunes displays a 1 next to - [links for 2011-01-18](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/01/19/links-for-2011-01-18/) - 'I just hate going to work now': abused Vodafone dealer to sue Vodafone's own independent dealers are joining the revolt against the telco, with at least one signing up to the class action lawsuit that has now swelled to almost 18,000 angry customers. (tags: Vodafone telecommunications telco mobile dealers SMH AsherMoses) Google And Facebook's Privacy - [Curvy at The Galleries Victoria](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/01/03/curvy-at-the-galleries-victoria/) - This year I notice that Curvy is hosted in The Galleries (formerly know as The Galleries Victoria). It has come a long way. I remember visiting a Curvy exhibition many years ago that was in someone's garage (in Surry Hills?). Or maybe it was the garage of a gallery there. I'll have to check with - [links for 2011-01-11](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/01/12/links-for-2011-01-11/) - So you still think the internet is free... What countries are censoring the Internet, or have it under surveillance. What are they blocking. And how do they do it. (tags: censorship Internet free surveillance) links for 2011-01-10 | Leefe rates the world... Obama administration moves forward with unique internet ID for all Americans, Commerce Department - [links for 2011-01-17](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/01/18/links-for-2011-01-17/) - Getting bargains and avoiding GST not the only reasons ... The heightened interest of consumers in buying things from overseas websites isn't really motivated by a desire to avoid paying the 10 per cent goods and services tax applicable on items bought in Australian stores. Rather, it reflects the availability of a much wider range - [Bored at Bondi Junction (Apple Store)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/01/16/bored-at-bondi-junction/) - An employee or security sitting bored the Apple Store in Bondi Junction. It is about 8pm. So are they closing up, or waiting for something else? - [Vodafone Billing options don't give you enough digits](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/01/13/vodafone-billing-options-dont-give-you-enough-digits/) - This is more a complaint about bad web design than Vodafone itself. I was looking in the MyVodafone site. Needed to check billing info. And noticed this silly error on the Billing options page. As you can see from the screenshot, the Notify me when bill is ready option is pre-filled with 614. But if - [Get real taste? Try something else](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/11/21/get-real-taste-try-something-else/) - Caution writer unloading. On the back of a Coca Cola delivery truck I walked past the other day was an advertisement for the new Goulburn Valley Dairy Co flavoured milk. 'Get real taste' it proclaimed. Well, at the beginning of November, due to a shortage of Oak milk at Woolworths, I purchased some of this - [Bus and car meet on George and Liverpool](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/06/15/bus-and-car-meet-on-george-and-liverpool/) - On the corner of George and Liverpool streets this afternoon I noticed this altercation between a tour bus and a car. The bus driver was trying to get the car to reverse away. Looks like the bus tried to turn into Liverpool St from the centre lane, and the car tried to undertake it. Of - [Federal Election 2010 flickr group #AusVotes](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/08/21/federal-election-2010-flickr-group/) - Today was the Australian Federal election. After creating a flicker group for the 2007 election, I realised I should do one for this election too. Go visit the Federal Election 2010 flickr group. Add your photos and peruse the photos that others have added. - [Nano big at Shinjuku station](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/12/29/nano-big-at-shinjuku-station/) - As you leave Shinjuku station via the west exit you can't but notice the mass of advertising for Apple iPod Nano. The rise between the pedestrian level and the ceiling has a ring of iPod advertisements (pictured below). And many of the pillars had the same advertisement on each side. While this may seem like - [Older model babysitter](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2006/07/06/older-model-babysitter/) - Found this on a community noticeboard. Reliable maybe and not too expensive, but don't let them teach your kid English. - [Vote for... oops that was last weekend](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/11/30/vote-for-oops-that-was-last-weekend/) - I noticed this funny advertisement on the web today. (Actually on my own blog) Looks like an ad for a candidate in the Australian Federal Election. But whats so funny about it? Well, the election was last weekend and I'm still getting ads telling me who I should vote for. Looks like someone forgot to - [Boxed in on the train](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/01/09/boxed-in-on-the-train/) - This train is only medium full, I have been on much more crowed trains in Tokyo, where you can't move. The interesting thing about this shot is the advertisement for boxer briefs in multiple colours and patterns. In Tokyo you see more adverts for fancy men's underwear (than in Australia). While there are still ads - [Get on the iPod train](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/01/21/get-on-the-ipod-train/) - Looking back through the photos I have taken in Tokyo I found this one of a train covered in iPod advertisements. Not just the outside, but also all the ads inside. Being the major transportation form in Tokyo, about 70% of all travel, trains are also the perfect venue for advertising. There are ads around - [Much experience waiting? Join the queue](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/10/23/much-experience-waiting-join-the-queue/) - Saw this wanted ad in the window of a café in Newtown. Must have waiting and coffee experience. Yes, I've spent extended amounts on time waiting in phone queues for a customer service representative. And by the time you get a person you often need a coffee. Must be available weekends and nights When do - [Lets do the Twist, in Pyrmont](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/03/02/lets-to-the-twist-in-pyrmont/) - Today Union square in Pyrmont was occupied camera crew, support personnel, and all their associated paraphernalia. Looked to be filming a TV commercial for KFC's Twisters. - [A month by any other name](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/10/11/a-month-by-any-other-name/) - In Germany they have October Fest, a festival celebrating beer drinking. And around the world people have appropriated October for their own festivals. Below is a list of festivals I though you could have for October. Some are real, and others just sound interesting. (Octoberfest is actually the 16 days leading up to the first - [illiteration / elliteration (definition)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/11/12/illiteration-elliteration-definition/) - illiteration \ ill·lit·er·a·tion \ noun: When all the diseases a hypochondriac thinks they have start with the same letter or sound. elliteration \ e·lit·er·a·tion \ noun: When a individual posts the same thing, or something that sounds the same, online over and over again. - [newmonia (definition)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/02/16/newmonia-definition/) - newmonia \ neu·moh·nee·uh \ noun: A medical condition where suffers feel the need to complain about all the new things they encounter. - [conservatopia (definition)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/02/17/conservatopia/) - conservatopia \ con·serv·a·to·pia \ noun: An imagined place or state where nothing ever changes. A place that suffers of newmonia often wished they were. - [Photos from Tokyo Tech festival](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/11/01/photos-from-tokyo-tech-festival/) - Last weekend there was a festival at Tokyo Institute of Technology to promote the university, much like an open day at Australian universities. There were many stalls of food run by different clubs at TiTech. And a few other stalls that had things other than food, like the baloon making stall. The main purpose of - [It's already Christmas in Tokyo](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/11/03/its-already-christmas-in-tokyo/) - Walking around Shinjuku I found that it is already Christmas in Tokyo. Tokyo Hands in the Takashimaya building has a display of Christmas decorations on sale. Including a snowman build from a frame of little lights, and many other light decorations. And beside the building there is a walkway of arches covered on fairy lights. - [Not your everyday rewards](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/06/26/not-your-everyday-rewards/) - While shopping in Balmain Woolworths on Monday I found that pieces of bright orange cake were getting pushed in the direction of customers. Initially I thought that would be a fruit cake, but it turned out to be a sponge chocolate cake. So, why the cake? What are they celebrating? Apparently a new addition to - [Power the moon with filters](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/08/31/power-the-moon-with-filters/) - Have been taking photos with a camera phone and people tell me that I should tidy them up. Not quite sure what they intend me to do, so here are some experiments with filters. I selected the telegraph pole and most of the power lines, inverted the selection, and applied a filter. What do you - [Who will dub Iron Chef Australia?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/10/08/who-will-dub-iron-chef-australia/) - Popping up around Sydney at the moment are ads for a new Channel 7 show, Iron Chef Australia. From the poster I can see they have selected Neil Perry, Guy Grossi and Guillaume Brahimi as their Iron Chefs. I don't watch enough TV these days (not that that is bad thing) and only recognise Neil - [Late night CBD construction](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/11/10/late-night-cbd-construction/) - [How government tried to gag web censor critics](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/10/23/how-government-tried-to-gag-web-censor-critics/) - The Federal Government is attempting to silence critics of its controversial plan to censor the internet, which experts say will break the internet while doing little to stop people from accessing illegal material such as child pornography. read more | digg story - [Vodafone Data Addon 500MB $9.95, 1GB $9.95](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/01/11/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 can pay $9.95 for 500MB per month. Or the same $9.95 for 1GB per month. - [links for 2010-12-28](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/12/29/links-for-2010-12-28/) - Assange named Le Monde Man of the Year - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been named "Man of the Year" by French newspaper Le Monde. (tags: WikiLeaks JulianAssange LeMonde ABC) - [links for 2010-12-29](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/12/30/links-for-2010-12-29/) - Flaws in Tor anonymity network spotlighted At the Chaos Computer Club Congress in Berlin, Germany on Monday, researchers from the University of Regensburg delivered a new warning about the Tor anonymizer network, a system aimed at hiding details of a computer user’s online activity from spying eyes. (tags: Tor flaw ChaosComputerClubCongress ArsTechnica Wired JohnBorland) Leaky - [links for 2011-01-01](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/01/02/links-for-2011-01-01/) - Time names Facebook's Zuckerberg 'Person of the Year'; Should he be? | ZDNet Commentary about Zuckerberg getting Time man of the year over Arssange. The best comment is "Zuck won because he is responsible for the leak of more private information than Assange." (tags: Time ManOfTheYear MarkZuckerberg JulianAssange ZDNet LarryDignan) The Laundry RPG: Adventuring In - [links for 2011-01-06](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/01/07/links-for-2011-01-06/) - Why good retailers will survive the internet | Article | The Punch In recent weeks, some of Australia’s larger retailers have vigorously argued that the ability of Australians to buy online will destroy retailing in Australia, with thousands of jobs going off-shore, and that we need to tax the internet to “create a level playing - [links for 2011-01-07](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/01/08/links-for-2011-01-07/) - Gerry Harvey | GST online purchases | Retail kingpin Gerry Harvey has admitted a campaign to force the government to act on GST on online purchases has placed him in a difficult position and "trying to extricate myself is quite difficult". (tags: retail GerryHarvey GST online SMH MathewMurphy) Big retail ready to blame big government - [links for 2011-01-09](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/01/10/links-for-2011-01-09/) - You're unAustralian: Gerry Harvey wants online shoppers to pay more for good of country | News.com.au Retails are complaining about the no GST online. Customers are complaining about prices and service in stores. Westfield is gouging stores for rent. (tags: GerryHarvey HarveyNorman online retail GST backlash SolomonLew PremierInvestments Myer BernieBrookes LeviStrauss JohnAnderson LeaseInfo SimonFonteyn Westfield - [links for 2011-01-10](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/01/11/links-for-2011-01-10/) - Obama administration moves forward with unique internet ID for all Americans, Commerce Department to head system up -- Engadget President Obama has signaled that he will give the United States Commerce Department the authority over a proposed national cybersecurity measure that would involve giving each American a unique online identity. (tags: USA Obama Internet idcard - [1001 things to do on 10 January](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/01/10/1001-things-to-do-on-10-january/) - Yes, it is Monday 10 January 2011. Or 10/01/2010 for those people that use the international date format. So, what would be a better day to do a 1001 things post? Unfortunately my time and spare brain capacity is limited at the moment. So its time for crowd sourcing. :) What are the 1001 things - [Surf while you wait at Chatswood bus stop](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2011/01/04/surf-while-you-wait-at-chatswood-bus-stop/) - Find yourself in Chatswood and need to access the Internet? Just stop by this bus stop and download a little. Actually, I have no idea how good the WiFi on this bus stop is, but I thought it was an interesting idea. Has anyone used this? Is it any good? Or does it crawl? And - [links for 2010-11-25](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/11/26/links-for-2010-11-25/) - Conroy's Internet Filter: How IT Works Cartoon mashup of the NBN report and the Mandatory Internet filter (tags: StephenConroy NBN internet filter cartoon) - [links for 2010-12-11](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/12/12/links-for-2010-12-11/) - World News Australia - R18+ game decision delayed The federal and state governments are to draw up guidelines for a possible new R18+ computer game classification. (tags: gamers classicication R18+ MA15 delay BrendanO’Connor Attorney-General SBS AAP) The first truly honest privacy policy Instead of a welter of new laws or regulations, how about just one: - [links for 2010-12-12](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/12/13/links-for-2010-12-12/) - Millennium Falcon secret blueprints Secret blueprints for the Millennium Falcon, a YT-1300 Transport from Corellian Engineering Corporation. (tags: MillenniumFalcon blueprints StarWars YT-1300 wookieleaks) - [links for 2010-12-04](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/12/05/links-for-2010-12-04/) - Microsoft's big danger: Crippling volume license defections | Software licensing - InfoWorld Many Microsoft volume licensees would rather switch than fight, with the big showdown coming in the next two years (tags: Microsoft software volumelicence licence renew Office InfoWorld WoodyLeonhard) Ron Paul stands up for Julian Assange - Andy Barr - POLITICO.com Rep. Ron Paul - [links for 2010-11-21](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/11/22/links-for-2010-11-21/) - Fifty ISPs harbour half the world's zombies - Security - Technology - News - iTnews.com.au OECD researchers have found that piracy, not high speed broadband as is often assumed, explains the prevalence of botnet infections in a country. After analysing 190 billion spam messages from 170 million sources captured between 2005 and 2009, the researchers found - [links for 2010-12-21](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/12/22/links-for-2010-12-21/) - World News Australia - Viral Friday: WikiLeaks saga animated As media outlets around the world are dominated from another release of sensitive diplomatic cables from whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, some organisations are taking the news a little less seriously than others.NextMediaAnimation from Taiwan (tags: wikileaks NextMediaAnimation Taiwan humour SBS) The Anonymous WikiLeaks protests are a mass - [links for 2010-12-26](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/12/27/links-for-2010-12-26/) - Banks and WikiLeaks - NYTimes.com The New York Times questions financial institutions decision to block payments to WikiLeaks. Arguing banks are like utilities, and should be required to provide service to anyone. (tags: WikiLeaks bank Visa MasterCard PayPal financial NewYorkTimes) - [Cyclists have lots of hurdles (photo)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/12/09/cyclists-have-lots-of-hurdles-photo/) - I see that there is a new event for cyclists in Sydney CBD, the steeplechase. Opponents of the new cycleway thought the event a great idea, and would provide great amusement to cars watching bicycles jumping along the road. - [A pink TV for the picking (photo)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/12/08/a-pink-tv-for-the-picking-photo/) - A pink TV left outside a set of units in Pyrmont. Waiting to be collect by the local council, or any individual who fancy it caught. - [Sydney Town Hall up in lights](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/11/25/sydney-town-hall-up-in-lights/) - Sydney Town Hall light up for Christmas at night. - [links for 2010-11-01](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/11/02/links-for-2010-11-01/) - Data retention proposal pinned on VoIP Government raises law enforcement concerns. The Attorney-General's Department has fingered the shift from landline telephones to IP telephony as the trigger for its secretive data retention proposal. (tags: dataretention VoIP landline phone internet government isp Attorney-General telecommunications surveillance law ScottLudlam AFP NeilGaughan EFA ColinJacobs itnews LizTay) ASX To Merge - [links for 2010-11-02](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/11/03/links-for-2010-11-02/) - Gruen unpacks the fact from advertising fiction ''A LOT of advertising is based on brands pretending that they're your friends. Brands are not my friends. I don't believe that Apple, Google and Facebook are my friends or have my best interests at heart.'' Fighting words, and curious ones, too from the writer and co-creator of - [links for 2010-11-03](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/11/04/links-for-2010-11-03/) - There are lies, damned lies and vested interests' reports Ross Gittins explains a KPMG report for the Australian Food and Grocery Council claims that there is a deficit on food import. That Australia is importing $1.8 billion more food and groceries than we export. But the devil is in the details, and what was left - [links for 2010-11-04](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/11/05/links-for-2010-11-04/) - Cadbury won't dare milk Fair Trade gong It appears that Cadbury won ethical accreditation for its chocolate back in June this year, but didn't want to advertise it for fear of claims of "Green Washing". Though I have seem Fair Trade logos appearing on their products recently. (tags: Cadbury chocolate ethical FairtTrade) Error Message: Your - [links for 2010-11-05](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/11/06/links-for-2010-11-05/) - MSY targeted by ACCC - Peripherals - Build - News - Atomic MPC The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission alleges warranty rights violations against part retailer MSY. Amongst serious PC upgraders and hardware tweakers, MSY has a reputation for both unbeatable prices and at times poor service. Following the announcement today that the ACCC has - [links for 2010-11-09](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/11/10/links-for-2010-11-09/) - Don't trust Google with anti-terror database, privacy watchdog warns | The Australian Google cannot be trusted to help manage Britain's new anti-terror database, the UK Government's privacy watchdog said yesterday. Records of all communications, including e-mails, text messages and the use of Facebook, Twitter and Skype, will kept by the company and internet service providers - [links for 2010-11-11](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/11/12/links-for-2010-11-11/) - Tell the taxman he's dreaming A RECEPTIONIST handed a sealed envelope to Symone Anstis, 25, and her father, Michael, with a smile. It contained news potentially worth more than $80 million. For the past four years the Anstis family had been fighting the Tax Office through every legal jurisdiction. Yesterday, on the 17th floor of - [links for 2010-11-16](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/11/17/links-for-2010-11-16/) - Clouds over Newtown Festival | Leefe rates the world... As the afternoon at Newtown Festival progressed a bank of clouds moved over the park. Luckily no rain ensued, but they provided some shade from the hot sun. (tags: ping.fm clouds newtown photo) - [links for 2010-11-17](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/11/18/links-for-2010-11-17/) - Cyber Experts Have Proof That China Has Hijacked U.S.-Based Internet Traffic - Blog For 18 minutes in April, China’s state-controlled telecommunications company hijacked 15 percent of the world’s Internet traffic, including data from U.S. military, civilian organizations and those of other U.S. allies. (tags: China hijacking Internet routing NationalDefense StewMagnuson) China Hijacked 15% of US - [Clouds over Newtown Festival](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/11/16/clouds-over-newtown-festival/) - As the afternoon at Newtown Festival progressed a bank of clouds moved over the park. Luckily no rain ensued, but they provided some shade from the hot sun. Here are some photos of the clouds in landscape and portrait. - [Photos from Newtown Festival](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/11/15/photos-from-newtown-festival/) - A collection of photos from yesterdays Newtown Festival. - [links for 2010-10-29](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/10/30/links-for-2010-10-29-12/) - Slyck News - Who Supports COICA - A Look Inside This Dangerous Anti ... There's a new bill being pushed hard in the halls of Congress. It's called the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA), and it already has the support of dozens of very large and influential mega-corporations. In essence, the bill gives - [links for 2010-10-22](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/10/23/links-for-2010-10-22/) - Silence of the dissenters: How south-east Asia keeps web users in line Governments across south-east Asia are following China's authoritarian censorship of the digital world to keep political dissent in check, the Guardian can reveal. Vietnam, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia and the Philippines have all moved or are moving towards monitoring internet use, blocking international sites - [links for 2010-10-25](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/10/26/links-for-2010-10-25/) - HTTPS Everywhere | Electronic Frontier Foundation HTTPS Everywhere is a Firefox extension produced as a collaboration between The Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It encrypts your communications with a number of major websites. (tags: HTTPS Firefox extension EFF Tor encrypt) Eric Butler - Software Developer in Seattle WA t's extremely common for websites - [links for 2010-10-26](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/10/27/links-for-2010-10-26/) - IT sector? Australia doesn’t need it, claims Reserve Bank Reserve Bank Governor Glenn Stevens has waded into the debate about whether Australia needs a strong home-grown IT sector, claiming the nation hasn’t been disadvantaged by failing to grow one since the dot-com bubble burst a decade ago. He thinks we are doing well enough on - [links for 2010-10-27](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/10/28/links-for-2010-10-27/) - Spy fears as Chinese firm eyes NBN deal SECURITY experts are alarmed that a company with links to the Chinese military is bidding to supply equipment to the national broadband network, warning that the equipment could be used to spy or launch cyber attacks on Australian governments and businesses. (tags: NBN spy China NSA Huawei - [links for 2010-10-16](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/10/17/links-for-2010-10-16/) - The truth about refused classification - Unleashed (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Article about the confusion politicians have, or try to make, between RC and illegal material, and how it should apply to the proposed Internet filter. (tags: Internet filter RC illegal moralhighground government StephenConroy JuliaGillard EFA StephenCollins ABC) School pays $621k for spying on pupils using - [links for 2010-10-17](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/10/18/links-for-2010-10-17/) - Default Password List Default passwords for may routers, network devices and other things. (tags: default password network) How I’d Hack Your Weak Passwords If you invited me to try and crack your password, you know the one that you use over and over for like every web page you visit, how many guesses would it - [links for 2010-10-18](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/10/19/links-for-2010-10-18/) - Robot arm punches human to obey Asimov's rules - tech - 13 October 2010 - New Scientist ISAAC ASIMOV would probably have been horrified at the experiments under way in a robotics lab in Slovenia. There, a powerful robot has been hitting people over and over again in a bid to induce anything from mild - [links for 2010-10-21](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/10/22/links-for-2010-10-21/) - NBN: Viable or Not? There has been a lot of bellyaching of late about whether or not the National Broadband Network (NBN) will be a viable proposition or not. Certainly, the purported cost of $43b is a lot of money, and when dealing with a sum of that magnitude, a certain level of caution is - [Rent this studio, comes with man peeing](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/10/17/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 a demonstration. ie Don't put a photo of someone going to the toilet in Domain.com.au - [Why would Hormel Foods name its product after junk email?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2006/10/17/why-would-hormel-foods-name-its-product-after-junk-email/) - Hormel Foods, the producer of the canned pork product Spam is trying to stop the dilution of its product name. It doesn't mind too much that "spam" has become a colloquial term referring to junk email. What it objects to is use of the word "spam" in naming commercial products. The EU trademark office has - [Apartment, 1 bathroom, no bedroom](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/10/16/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. Perfect for a person always on the go. (Of course, the agent my have put - [And Delicious.com went berserk...](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/10/10/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 every hour, or more often, the links for the last day. Feeding itself to a - [Woolworths renovates its signs](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/10/06/woolworths-renovates-its-signs/) - Woolworths at Town Hall is renovating the interior. Some things have moved around, and other areas have been blocked up while under constructions. Even the signs are a work in progress. I was wondering, can you change the inside of the shop by moving the stickers on the directory sign? :) - [Astroboy and the construction error](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/09/29/astroboy-and-the-construction-error/) - It is nice that people are running children's entertainment in shopping centres during the school holidays. Just a pity they don't put enough effort into checking what they construct. As you can see, Astroboy is being attacked by a giant robot. Unfortunately the robot had a got its left hand confused with its right hand. - [Caution, runaway Delicious](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/09/27/cauction-runaway-delicious/) - In the interest of getting more posts on my blog I set Delicious to post links that I had added daily. And to announce to the world there was a new post I added the Shorten2Ping plugin that sends to Twitter (and delicious). All good in theory, but, if you leave things unchecked, your blog - [Media and guests dodge Newtown traffic for festival](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/09/23/media-and-guests-dodge-newtown-traffic-for-festival/) - Due to a space limitation problem caused by the redevelopment of Newtown station, all media and guests have been asked to stand in the middle of Newtown Bridge to collect tickets for the Sydney Fringe Festival. While the organisers understand the dangers of dodging cars traveling back and forth along King Street, they believe that - [links for 2010-09-17](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/09/18/links-for-2010-09-17/) - Conroy's net filter still alive and kicking The Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, is ploughing ahead with his internet filter policy despite there being virtually no chance any enabling legislation will pass either house of Parliament. (tags: StephenConroy internet filter legislation RobOakeshott TheGreens ScottLudlam UniversityofSydney BjornLandfeldt ISP RC AdamBandt AndrewWilkie TonyWindsor BobKatter SMH AsherMoses) Marrickville blocks - [links for 2010-09-12](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/09/13/links-for-2010-09-12/) - More signage for drunks | Leefe rates the world... This signage for drunks is getting so passé. Seen it before. But I suppose these vandals think they are being original. (tags: ping.fm sign train CityRail) Cheap Oak Chocolate Milk at Coles | Leefe rates the world... Very cheap Oak Chocolate milk at Coles. At $2.67 - [links for 2010-09-20](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/09/21/links-for-2010-09-20/) - These are not the doors you are looking for (photo) | Leefe rates the world... All the doors on the second carriage of my train this morning were taped up with Door out of order please use another door stickers. And the inter carriage (tags: ping.fm) Renovation or removal? (photo) | Leefe rates the world... - [Kitchen wedged in (photo)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/09/21/kitched-wedged-in-photo/) - Cafe kitchen wedged into the side of the Queen Victoria Building, Sydney CBD. - [These are not the doors you are looking for (photo)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/09/20/these-are-not-the-doors-you-are-looking-for-photo/) - All the doors on the second carriage of my train this morning were taped up with "Door out of order please use another door" stickers. And the inter carriage doors disabled. I suppose the carriage was having problems, but it would have been too much trouble to leave the one carriage on a siding somewhere? - [Renovation or removal? (photo)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/09/19/renovation-or-removal-photo/) - Renovation or removal? It appears that the sunglasses shop in Broadway is being boarded up. Though only at waist height. To keep the munchkins out. I suppose we can expect to see a new establishment appearing here soon. - [Buses queue outside QVB](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/09/17/buses-queue-outside-qvb/) - At peak hour on Friday morning even the buses had to queue for parking behind the Queen Victoria Building. - [More signage for drunks](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/09/09/more-signage-for-drunks/) - This signage for drunks is getting so passé. Seen it before. But I suppose these vandals think they are being original. - [Cheap Oak Chocolate Milk at Coles](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/09/12/cheep-oak-chocolate-milk-at-coles/) - Very cheap Oak Chocolate milk at Coles. At $2.67 for 2L, down from $5.35, that is half the standard retail pricing. Makes you wonder what their mark up is if Coles can offer it at that sort of discount. At least it was on the shelf. I quite often see cheap deals on Oak and - [links for 2010-09-05](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/09/06/links-for-2010-09-05/) - Full text: An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant Interesting email about Bill Gates having trouble downloading Movie Maker form the Microsoft.com site. Fun with Microsoft Update. And other complaints. (tags: BillGates Windows rant MovieMaker SeattlePI ToddBishop Microsoft) Reports of NSW MP internet misuse 'flawed' - Business - News Parliamentary officials say a report allegedly exposing - [Don't feed the birds, avoid water hazards (photo)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/09/06/dont-feed-the-birds-avoid-water-hazards-photo/) - Signs in Strathfield telling the public to refrain from feeding the pigeons to avoid creating water hazards. Of course, that might not be exactly what they meant when putting up the signs. - [But the sign said, signal bus driver](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/09/04/but-the-sign-said-signal-bus-driver/) - Misinterpretation of the bus stop sign? - [Sushi Train at Town hall is closing](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/09/03/sushi-train-at-town-hall-is-closing/) - A sign in the window of Sushi Train at Town Hall (Sydney) announced the continuation of the $3 all plates deal at Sushi Train Town Hall until Sunday 5 September. Good news short term, bad news long term. The sign also announced that Sunday 5 September would by its last day of trading, and apologised - [The Paranoid's hair dresser (photo)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/08/31/the-paranoids-hair-dresser-photo/) - This hair dresser offers 'Full Head Foils'. Something to protect against those annoying Orbital Mind Control Satellites? - [links for 2010-05-01](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/05/02/links-for-2010-05-01/) - Govt 'committed to internet filter' The federal government has rejected claims it has abandoned plans to introduce mandatory internet filtering before the next election. (tags: Internet filter StephenConroy government cybersafety ScottLudlam nocleanfeed openinternet) Slashdot Politics Story | Australian Gov't Claims Internet Filter Legislation Still In Play the government rejected claims that it had abandoned such - [links for 2010-05-02](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/05/03/links-for-2010-05-02/) - Pot, meet kettle: a response to Steve Jobs' letter on Flash Watching two proprietary software companies deeply opposed to computer user freedom lob accusations back and forth about who is more opposed to freedom has been surreal, to say the least. But what's been crystal clear is that the freedom these companies are arguing about - [links for 2010-05-03](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/05/04/links-for-2010-05-03/) - RaBot and the munch e-Carrot What do you feed Rabots? (tags: robot rabbits carrot cartoon drawing) Senate answers shed some more light on filter | EFA Senator Conroy's office today provided answers to Questions on Notice asked by Greens Senator Scott Ludlam some months ago. Among the dozens of answers reiterating standard positions were some - [links for 2010-05-04](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/05/05/links-for-2010-05-04/) - Penguin cookbook calls for 'freshly ground black people' | Books | guardian.co.uk A recipe for tagliatelle with sardines and prosciutto has proved a little too spicy for Penguin Australia, after a misprint suggesting that the dish required "salt and freshly ground black people" has left the publisher reaching for the pulping machine, rather than the - [links for 2010-05-05](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/05/06/links-for-2010-05-05/) - You can trust politicians ... to do exactly what's best for them Ross Gittins explains the Henry review, the tax reforms it suggests, and what the PM is not telling the public. (tags: tax THR RossGittins KevinRudd SMH 20100505) - [links for 2010-05-06](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/05/07/links-for-2010-05-06/) - Australia makes Google's top 10 censorship list - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Australia comes in at number 10 on a list of countries that have asked the search engine Google to hand over user data or to censor information. (tags: Google Australia government internet freedom information EFA GeordieGuy privacy transparency ABC TheaDikeos 20100421) Q - [links for 2010-05-08](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/05/09/links-for-2010-05-08/) - Building at sunset (photo) | Leefe rates the world... As the days are getting shorter and night starts to catch one leaving work, I caught the last rays on the sun reflected in this building’s windows. (tags: ping.fm photo sunset) Schneier on Security: Why Aren't There More Terrorist Attacks? The threat of terrorists is a - [links for 2010-05-09](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/05/10/links-for-2010-05-09/) - The Tell-All Generation Learns When Not To, at Least Online - NYTimes.com The conventional wisdom suggests that everyone under 30 is comfortable revealing every facet of their lives online, from their favorite pizza to most frequent sexual partners. But many members of the tell-all generation are rethinking what it means to live out loud. (tags: - [links for 2010-05-12](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/05/13/links-for-2010-05-12/) - Internet filter, study, GA research As Prime Minister Kevin Rudd attempts to fend off a slump in the Labor's approval rating, evidence is mounting that one of its key initiatives - mandatory internet filtering - may not prove as popular with voters as the government had hoped. (tags: KevinRudd ALP mantatory internet filter censorship StephenConroy - [links for 2010-05-10](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/05/11/links-for-2010-05-10/) - World News Australia - Conroy: No broadening of web filter "Federal Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has reportedly told the ABC's Four Corners program that the government will not broaden the proposed level of censorship in the controversial web filter plans." I'll believe it when I see it. (tags: StephenConroy internet filter broadening scope RC ABC - [links for 2010-05-13](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/05/14/links-for-2010-05-13/) - Delimiter – Five reasons the iPad will fail in Australia Opinion piece on why the iPad won't do well in Australia. In summary cost and apathy. (tags: iPad fail Australia Delimiter RenaiLeMay 20100427) links for 2010-05-12 | Leefe rates the world... …insert witty one liner (tags: ping.fm) - [links for 2010-05-14](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/05/15/links-for-2010-05-14/) - Looking for a camera that answers phone calls | Leefe rates the world... …insert witty one liner (tags: ping.fm) Australische Piratenpartei kritisiert Filter-Umgehungsverbot - Internet | News | ZDNet.de Renai's article about the Pirate Party's nate that, while it may not be illegal to circumvent the filter, it could be illegal to tell someone how - [links for 2010-05-15](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/05/16/links-for-2010-05-15/) - Twitter & Telly (Razer attack on filter) - QandA Community Video A very rough 1 minute mashup of an episode of QandA as experienced by a social media geek. Aim is to show 'normal people' what it is like to watch an episode while interacting via twitter and hopefully how powerful this experience can be - [links for 2010-05-21](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/05/22/links-for-2010-05-21/) - Mr Ro Bots and ePets (cartoon) | Leefe rates the world... (tags: ping.fm) - [links for 2010-05-22](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/05/23/links-for-2010-05-22/) - links for 2010-05-21 | Leefe rates the world... Mr Ro Bots and ePets (cartoon) | Leefe rates the world... (tags: ping.fm) (tags: ping.fm) - [links for 2010-05-25](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/05/26/links-for-2010-05-25/) - Conroy unlikely to reveal secret filter forum results - Senator Stephen Conroy, Senator Scott Ludlam, internet filtering, Department of Broadband Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) - Computerworld The Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy has announced the closure of an online forum used by the Australian Government and Internet service providers in - [links for 2010-05-26](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/05/27/links-for-2010-05-26/) - Oz government in filter paranoia meltdown • The Register In a performance punctuated with all the hallmarks of paranoia, Australian Communications Minister Stephen Conroy laid into internet giant Google earlier this week, suggesting that the approach taken by their chief executive, Eric Schmidt, is a "bit creepy". (tags: Google StephenConroy privacy Facebook internet filter paranoia - [links for 2010-05-27](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/05/28/links-for-2010-05-27/) - Internet giants put on notice | The Australian COMMUNICATIONS Minister Stephen Conroy yesterday denied his attack on Google and Facebook had anything to do with opposition to his internet filter, warning the two they were not above Australian laws. (tags: StephenConroy Google Facebook privacy internet TheAustralian NicolaBerkovic) Facebook overhauls privacy controls Facebook has overhauled its - [links for 2010-05-28](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/05/29/links-for-2010-05-28/) - Internet Association slams Conroy's petty attacks The Internet Industry Association has called on Stephen Conroy to get on with building the NBN rather than picking fights with industry players like Google. (tags: IIA InternetIndustryAssociation Google internet APC RenaiLeMay) ISP filter may put Google TV on backburner | News.com.au AUSTRALIANS may be forced to wait for - [links for 2010-05-29](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/05/30/links-for-2010-05-29/) - Listen up, Labor — Hoyden About Town A vote against Abbot is NOT a vote for censorship (tags: voters TonyAbbot censorship ALP) It’s Time To Tell Mum – My Personal Thoughts at Geordie Guy On Thursday EFA launched “It’s Time To Tell Mum”; an anti-censorship campaign that is remarkably different from anything we’ve ever done. - [links for 2010-05-30](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/05/31/links-for-2010-05-30/) - Filter goes ahead regardless MINISTER for Communications Stephen Conroy has vowed to push on with his controversial internet filtering scheme, despite a barrage of criticism. (tags: StephenConroy GetUp CyberSafety Google internet filter censorship MalcomTurnbull whiteelephant) - [links for 2010-05-31](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/06/01/links-for-2010-05-31/) - Slashdot Technology Story | Telcos Waking Up To the Value of Your Location Cell phone networks represent probably the most effective data collectors of all time: almost everyone's movements and communications are logged in some way by these firms thanks to the ubiquity of cell phones. Now they're beginning to wake up to the value - [links for 2010-06-01](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/06/02/links-for-2010-06-01/) - Delimiter • View topic - Conroy just keeps on mis-speaking You would think that after his disastrous episode this week where he alleged that iiNet was in support of the Government's internet filtering project, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy would be vetting his public statements a little more carefully. (tags: StephenConroy pressrelease internet filter iiNet disaster - [links for 2010-06-03](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/06/04/links-for-2010-06-03/) - No strong safeguards in HI Bill, says Australian Privacy Foundation ... THE Healthcare Identifiers Bill will allow health authorities to link every piece of a person's medical information to a single number, without strong safeguards against deliberate or accidental abuse, the nation's peak privacy body warns. (tags: healthcare health privacy AustralianPrivacyFoundation TheAustralian KarenDearne) Call to - [links for 2010-06-06](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/06/07/links-for-2010-06-06/) - Filter Conroy Seeing that Stephen Conroy has no intention of removing has mandatory Internet Censorship legislation, this site will publish a guide on how to vote Conroy out of the Senate. (tags: StephenConroy internet filter voters election Senate) Does the Internet Make You Smarter? - WSJ.com The internet has created 2 camps: those who like - [links for 2010-06-09](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/06/10/links-for-2010-06-09/) - Please Father Steve, unlock Telstra iPhone video calling The new iPhone 4 can now do video calls, but only if you are using a wi-fi network, not through the mobile network. Renai surmises that this is because AT&T' network could not cope with the increased data volume required. And ignores places like Australia (or Japan) - [links for 2010-06-10](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/06/11/links-for-2010-06-10/) - Pornography Checks At Airport Are Ridiculous | Blunt Instrument Comments about the Rudd government going over board on blocking porn. First on they Internet, then at airports. Is the government obsessed with porn? (tags: porn censorship KevinRudd government BrisbaneTimes JohnBirmingham) - [links for 2010-06-11](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/06/12/links-for-2010-06-11/) - Delimiter – iiNet knew about retention proposal in 2009 iiNet this afternoon said it was briefed in late 2009 about a Federal Government proposal which could potentially see telcos required to keep records of web browsing history, telephone calls and emails of their users. (tags: iiNet dataretention government browser history email ISP privacy CommunicationsAlliance Attorney-General - [links for 2010-06-12](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/06/13/links-for-2010-06-12/) - Government plans to monitor without court authorisation The federal government wants your personal internet data, and it does not want to have to apply to a court to get it. A revelation that the federal government wants Australia's 400-odd internet service providers to log and retain customers' private web browsing data so law enforcement officers - [links for 2010-06-13](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/06/14/links-for-2010-06-13/) - The Policy Laundering Project The United States and to a lesser extent the European Union are trying to force international institutions as well as less powerful nations to adopt a wide variety of bad policies as part of the so-called "war on terror." This Website is intended to serve as a central clearinghouse of information - [links for 2010-06-14](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/06/15/links-for-2010-06-14/) - iTWire - Sen. Conroy’s big red button for Internet kids Fresh from his battles with Internet filter opponents, Senator Stephen Conroy Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy today announced a “help button” for online kids. (tags: StephenConroy internet kids online help cybersafety Adobe Air BigRedButton government iTWire DavidHeath) Frantic Computer by Green Chilli - [links for 2010-06-17](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/06/18/links-for-2010-06-17/) - Web snooping policy shrouded in secrecy The federal government is hiding controversial plans to force ISPs to store internet activity of all Australian internet users - regardless of whether they have been suspected of wrongdoing - for law-enforcement agencies to access. (tags: government ISP dataretention Attorney-General RobertMcClelland EU internet browser history email VoIP policy privacy - [links for 2010-06-20](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/06/21/links-for-2010-06-20/) - An empty station | Leefe rates the world... The station is empty. Even the station staff have gone home. Maybe I was leaving work a little late on the night I took this. (tags: ping.fm) John Birmingham The Geek Column | Internet censorship | Conroy Any Australian government of any persuasion that attempted to construct - [links for 2010-06-21](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/06/22/links-for-2010-06-21/) - IIA statement on Data Retention In response to recent reports about a possible data retention regime in Australia, the IIA issues the following statement to outline its position. (tags: IIA dataretention government crime lawenforcementagencies privacy security cost transparency) Inside Australia's data retention proposal - Communications - News Telecommunications industry sources have called the claims by - [links for 2010-06-22](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/06/23/links-for-2010-06-22/) - Australian Government To Force Internet Users To Install State-Approved Software | NewWORLDLiberty The Australian government is set to intensify its war against Internet freedom by forcing web users to install state-approved anti-virus software. If they fail to do so, they will be denied an Internet connection, or if their computer is later infected, the user’s - [links for 2010-06-23](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/06/24/links-for-2010-06-23/) - Parliament of Australia:Senate:Committees:Privileges 145th Report: Persons referred to in the Senate: Mr Geordie Guyon behalf of Electronic Frontiers Australia Inc. Geordie Guy and EFA responding to comments by Stephen Conroy tabled in Hansard. (tags: Senate Hansard government GeordieGuy EFA StephenConroy internet filter) - [links for 2010-06-24](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/06/25/links-for-2010-06-24/) - What if the internet fell over tomorrow? So US Senator Joe Lieberman has proposed a bill to create an internet ‘‘kill switch’’ that would enable the US president to shut down the web in a time of threat or crisis. (tags: Internet USA Senator JoeLieberman president shutdown SMH GordonFarrer) Labor elusive on web history collection - [links for 2010-06-28](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/06/29/links-for-2010-06-28/) - Is permission needed to retweet hot news? When an aggregator like Google News publishes newspaper headlines, is the company treading on thin ice? What about aggregators that publish headlines and a one-line excerpt? What about those that simply rewrite the facts contained in the story and publish a new account in their own words? (tags: - [links for 2010-07-01](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/07/02/links-for-2010-07-01/) - Net filter trials 'unlawful', claims engineer - Communications - News The internet filtering "live trials" conducted by the Federal Government in conjunction with internet service providers (ISPs) were done illegally, according to claims by network engineer Mark Newton. (tags: Federal government Internet filter unlawful ISP MarkNewton DBCDE interception ZDNet BenGrubb) Metcash buys Franklins to convert - [links for 2010-07-02](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/07/03/links-for-2010-07-02/) - Delimiter – Should Gillard replace Conroy with Lundy? Several of Stephen Conroy’s harshest critics have backed the idea that Julia Gillard should hand his Communications portfolio to fellow Labor Senator Kate Lundy in the event Gillard took the Prime Ministership this morning and conducted a cabinet re-shuffle. (tags: StephenConroy JuliaGillard KateLundy communication minister Delimiter RenaiLeMay) - [links for 2010-07-03](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/07/04/links-for-2010-07-03/) - Kate Lundy for IT: The Change We Really Need | Gizmodo Australia Piece by Gizmodo on why Kate Lundy should replace Stephen Conroy as Communications minister. (tags: KateLundy StephenConroy DBCDE replace Gizmodo) Rudd's decline shows voters want reform but never retreat Although Kevin Rudd claims his popularity collapsed because he was trying to make 'tough - [links for 2010-07-04](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/07/05/links-for-2010-07-04/) - What do you do with 50GB between 2am and 8am? | Leefe rates the world... My ISP has just increased the monthly download quota. Going from a reasonable 30 GB peak and 30 GB off-peak, to more impressive 50 GB for both. And it only (tags: ping.fm) You Are Here: Scary New Location Privacy Risks - [links for 2010-07-09](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/07/10/links-for-2010-07-09/) - Conroy backs down on net filters Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has capitulated to widespread concerns over his internet censorship policy and delayed any mandatory filters until at least next year. (tags: StephenConroy internet filter delay censorship mandatory SMH AsherMoses) Internet filter 'won't protect kids' Protecting children online could be harder with a mandatory internet filter - [links for 2010-07-12](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/07/13/links-for-2010-07-12/) - Conroy's filter ain't dead, just resting It's a little premature to celebrate the demise the Australia's mandatory internet filtering plans. - There was much jubilation late last week as the digerati claimed a victory over the government's "back down" on plans to implement mandatory ISP-level internet filtering. Don't be fooled, Conroy has in no way - [links for 2010-07-15](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/07/16/links-for-2010-07-15/) - Joint Select Committee on Cyber-Safety - Submissions (tags: government Senate cybersafety committee internet) Why the RIAA Doesn’t Mind Losing Money on Lawsuits A document has been making the rounds showing that the RIAA paid more than $16 million to its lawyers while recouping only a fraction of it through settlements. While some might grin at - [links for 2010-07-16](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/07/17/links-for-2010-07-16/) - World News Australia - Japan trials billboards that watch you Digital advertising billboards being trialled in Japan are fitted with cameras that read the gender and age group of people looking at them to tailor their commercial messages. (tags: digital advertising billboards Japan cameras railway Tokyo SBS) Maslow's Hierarchy of Internet Needs (IMAGE) | Maslow’s - [links for 2010-07-17](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/07/18/links-for-2010-07-17/) - Go organic with plastic at Woolworths | Leefe rates the world... Trying to be green and buy organic? Or maybe just trying to avoid all the chemicals use in food production? Doesn't it seems just a little ironic to find (tags: ping.fm) ABC Campaign Pulse ABC's site about the 2010 Australian Federal election. (tags: Australia - [links for 2010-07-18](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/07/19/links-for-2010-07-18/) - Clouds at the airport (photo) | Leefe rates the world... Looking out the windows of Kingsford Smith Airport's domestic terminal at planes of fluffy white clouds and blue sky peeking through. (tags: ping.fm) TV downloads threatening video stores If video killed the radio star, then downloads may in turn kill the video. The advent of - [links for 2010-07-20](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/07/21/links-for-2010-07-20/) - People on the platform (photo) | Leefe rates the world... A long row of people stand on platform 22 at Central Station, Sydney waiting for the train going around the city circle via St James. (tags: ping.fm) Tinfinger: IT lizards feast on the filter fish Why the Internet filter issue is just a beatup by - [links for 2010-07-23](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/07/24/links-for-2010-07-23/) - Ferris wheel and clouds | Leefe rates the world... Spying the Ferris wheel over the overpass at Darling Harbour. (tags: ping.fm) Why Asylum Seekers Aren't The Whole Story On Population John Howard must be eating his own liver around about now. He had only to look sideways at a little brown foreign chap and the - [links for 2010-07-27](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/07/28/links-for-2010-07-27/) - Slashdot Your Rights Online Story | AU Government Censors Document On Planned Web Snooping (tags: government censorship ISP internet law SMH slashdot) Tech worker testifies of 'blue screen of death' on oil rig's computer - Computerworld A computer that monitored drilling operations on the Deepwater Horizon had been freezing with a "blue screen of death" - [links for 2010-07-29](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/07/30/links-for-2010-07-29/) - Overdose on plastic pink and blue (photo) | Leefe rates the world... An overdose of plastic pink and blue kids' bins and storage boxes at Coles, Broadway. (tags: ping.fm photo Coles) Your smartphone is watching you Australian security experts, consumer advocates and privacy campaigners have sounded the alarm over the hundreds of thousands of free - [links for 2010-08-03](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/08/04/links-for-2010-08-03/) - Michael Keaton in StarCraft II? | Leefe rates the world... Has anyone else noticed that the face staring out the StarCraft II box looks a lot like Michael Keaton? No, is seem not. Searching Google only found one (tags: ping.fm) iPad data cost by country analyzed and charted -- Engadget A graph of data costs - [links for 2010-08-04](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/08/05/links-for-2010-08-04/) - Freedom to leak Commentary on the WikiLeaks and Julian Assange business. (tags: WikiLeaks freedom JulianAssange SMH CharlesWaterstreet) Hacker's $2k device taps mobile calls A computer security researcher has built a device for just $US1500 ($1656) that can intercept some kinds of mobile phone calls and record everything that's said. (tags: hacker security interception mobile ChrisPaget - [links for 2010-08-06](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/08/07/links-for-2010-08-06/) - GetUp! High Court win overturns Howard's electoral laws The High Court has ruled that Howard-era laws that close the electoral rolls on the day that writs for an election are issued are invalid. The Australian Electoral Commission will now scramble to contact an estimated 100,000 Australians to inform them they are entitled to vote at - [links for 2010-08-12](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/08/13/links-for-2010-08-12/) - Surfing Liberal Broadband Policy (cartoon) #AusVotes | Leefe rates the world... Tony Abbott, Tony Smith and Malcolm Turnbull tryout the new Liberal broadband policy. Surfing the Internet, just lookout for the last mile. (tags: ping.fm AusVotes Liberal broadband policy TonyAbbot TonySmith MalcomTurnbull cartoon LRTW) - [links for 2010-08-18](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/08/19/links-for-2010-08-18/) - Lookout for that bus!!! | Leefe rates the world... Motion shot of the bus going round the corner. Looks like it is about to topple over into the photographer. (tags: ping.fm) Orange Juice for Chocoholics | Leefe rates the world... The sign in Coles proclaimed Made with 40% choc chips. But do you really want - [links for 2010-08-26](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/08/27/links-for-2010-08-26/) - Hung Parliament May Do Something About Climate Change Revolution of the thinking voter turns politics green - Sorry but I'm not convinced a hung parliament is a terrible thing. It may end up being a good thing. I see it as the revolt of thinking voters against an election campaign that was aimed almost exclusively - [Does WD need cartoon characters to reinforce brand recognition?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/08/29/does-wd-need-cartoon-characters-to-reinforce-brand-recognition/) - Outside Capital Square in Sydney CBD today there were 3 mangaesk character. All emblazed with WD logos. ie promoting Western Digital. Looking like something you might see in Tokyo, manga style characters walking around, handing out trinkets to add to your keitai (mobile phone). But what is the point? Really, how many people are going - [$3 August at Sushi Train Town Hall](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/08/05/3-august-at-sushi-train-town-hall/) - For the month of August Sushi Train at Town Hall is offering all plates for $3. Go forth and gorge yourselves. Edit: Just noticed the Sushi Train blog post on the deal here. - [No Stopping The Greens #AusVotes](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/08/22/no-stopping-the-greens/) - The results, so far, for yesterday's Australian Federal Election are quite interesting. We seems to be left with a hung parliament, the choice of who to form a minority parliament going to 4 independents and 1 Greens candidate. With little difference between the 2 major parties The Greens are gathering momentum. Having gained 1 lower - [Lookout for that bus!!!](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/08/18/lookout-for-that-bus/) - Motion shot of the bus going round the corner. Looks like it is about to topple over into the photographer. - [Surfing Liberal Broadband Policy (cartoon) #AusVotes](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/08/12/surfing-liberal-broadband-policy-cartoon/) - Tony Abbott, Tony Smith and Malcolm Turnbull tryout the new Liberal broadband policy. Surfing the Internet, just lookout for the last mile. - [Michael Keaton in StarCraft II?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/08/03/michael-keaton-in-starcraft-ii/) - Has anyone else noticed that the face staring out the StarCraft II box looks a lot like Michael Keaton? No, is seem not. Searching Google only found one other mention of this. Maybe everyone else is just too interested in playing the game to look at the box? I'd just like to thank my movie - [Overdose on plastic pink and blue (photo)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/07/29/overdose-on-plastic-pink-and-blue-photo/) - An overdose of plastic pink and blue kids' bins and storage boxes at Coles, Broadway. - [Cleaning Apple's (photo)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/07/23/cleaning-apples-photo/) - Cleaning the Apple store tonight in Sydney CBD. - [Ferris wheel and clouds (photo)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/07/22/ferris-wheel-and-clouds/) - Spying the Ferris wheel over the overpass at Darling Harbour. - [How full is the car park? (photo)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/07/21/how-full-is-the-car-park-photo/) - In the now closed car park beside UTS building 10 the sign declares it full. Perhaps the sign is thinking back to better days, when many a uni student and staff member would park there for the day? Or maybe it has its invisible friends there to keep it company? - [People on the platform (photo)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/07/20/people-on-the-platform-photo/) - A long row of people stand on platform 22 at Central Station, Sydney waiting for the train going around the city circle via St James. - [Go organic with plastic at Woolworths](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/07/17/go-organic-with-plastic-at-woolworths/) - Trying to be green and buy organic? Or maybe just trying to avoid all the chemicals use in food production? Doesn't it seems just a little ironic to find your organic carrots are sealed in plastic? I suppose it is to keep them separate so they don't contaminate all the 'normal' carrots. - [Clouds at the airport (photo)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/07/18/clouds-at-the-airport-photo/) - Looking out the windows of Kingsford Smith Airport's domestic terminal at planes of fluffy white clouds and blue sky peeking through. - [What do you do with 50GB between 2am and 8am?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/07/04/what-do-you-do-with-50gb-between-2am-and-8am/) - My ISP has just increased the monthly download quota. Going from a reasonable 30 GB peak and 30 GB off-peak, to more impressive 50 GB for both. And it only increased to 30GB for both from 15GB/20GB peak/off-peak last December. There is the question though of 'What do you do with 50GB between 2am and - [An empty station](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/06/20/an-empty-station/) - The station is empty. Even the station staff have gone home. Maybe I was leaving work a little late on the night I took this. - [Mr Ro Bots and ePets (cartoon)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/05/21/mr-ro-bots-and-epets-cartoon/) - [Clouds over cemetery](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/05/16/clouds-over-cemetery/) - The sky was blue and then dark clouds moved in, threatening to rain on the cemetery. But, they left only a few drops. - [Looking for a camera that answers phone calls](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/05/14/looking-for-a-camera-that-answers-phone-calls/) - Most people have mobile phones to answer phone calls. And while I see the need for that too, I find it fills the need to have a convenient camera to take pics of interesting things you see. Having a phone in your pocket all the time to take interesting picture is good, but sometimes camera - [Building at sunset (photo)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/05/08/building-at-sunset/) - As the days are getting shorter and night starts to catch one leaving work, I caught the last rays on the sun reflected in this building's windows. - [Evening peak hour, Central](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/05/04/evening-peak-hour-central/) - Looking down the tunnel from Central station to Railway Square, Sydney, Australia. - [RaBot and the munch e-Carrot (cartoon)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/05/03/rabot-and-the-munch-e-carrot-cartoon/) - So, if you had a robot rabbit, what would you feed it? - [Across ANZAC bridge at sunset](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/04/23/across-anzac-bridge-at-sunset/) - As the night was closing in at peak hour on a Friday, I crossed ANZAC bridge. I think this shot captures the energy of all the cars and the people trying to rush home or out after work. - [ANZAC bridge, or lack there of](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/04/21/anzac-bridge-or-lack-there-of/) - Sydney was covered with with a sheet of fog. And visibility was, as you can see, not very far. Unfortunately the traffic was also terrible, and crawled across ANZAC bridge. - [Beware of 'P'ed dinosaur](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/04/20/beware-of-ped-dinosaur/) - Motorists beware. Dorothy the Dinosaur has been granted her 'P's. - [The latest corporate game craze, McAfee Brickout (cartoon)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/04/22/the-latest-corporate-game-craze-mcafee-brickout-cartoon/) - The latest craze. Set to replace Minesweeper as the number one game (time waster) on corporate Windows XP machine McAfee Brickout Appearing on a computer near you... - [Moved blog to new url...](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/02/03/moved-blog-to-new-url/) - Just moved my blog to a new domain, Leefe.RatesTheWorld.com.au. I think this will work better in the long run, but is a pain in the short run. All the things you have to do when moving sites. You have to tell Google and Yahoo about your new site, and add sitemaps again. Then wait the - [Somebody think of the children, Rudd & Conroy](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/04/12/somebody-think-of-the-children-rudd-conroy/) - In the current debate Rudd and Conroy seem to just keep churning out the same statements about the internet filters, despite what anybody says. Childish really. - [Oh, my, what big filters you have Grandma Conroy](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/04/09/oh-my-what-big-filters-you-have-grandma-conroy/) - [Protection from trees](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/03/29/protection-from-trees/) - On my way to work I noticed these warning signs put out by council to protect the public from trees. A reminder to all cyclists and pedestrians of the dangers trees present. As you can see, they had to bury the last cyclist that didn't heed the sign. - [Mattel recalls more toys in Chinese lead paint alert](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/09/06/mattel-recalls-more-toys-in-chinese-lead-paint-alert/) - THOUSANDS more toys are being pulled from Australian shelves as an international investigation delves deeper into China's disgraced manufacturing industry. In a recorded statement, Mattel's Australian marketing director, Julie Kearns, said the company had been testing toys since the paint scandal broke. See service.mattel.com (SMH, 6 Sept 2007) read more | digg story - [Beam up all the 'tarnas](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2006/09/26/beam-up-all-the-tarnas/) - I know a baby that has recently discovered sultanas, or 'tanats' as they are called. It seems Sunbeam has found bits of metal in some of its dried foods recently and is doing a product recall. Guess which company packages the tanas that are being eatern. Some articles/posts I found on the recall: Sunbeam Fruit - [Miss Polly Had A Dolly](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/04/16/miss-polly-had-a-dolly/) - Recently my small child has been taught Miss Polly Had A Dolly by Grandma. Some of the words are remembered, but not all of them, and I am expected to sing the song. A search of Google brings up a number of version of the lyrics, mostly differing on what the doctor does, as well - [Thirty truths for young dads](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/09/01/thirty-truths-for-young-dads/) - "IT'S FATHER'S DAY tomorrow and, while fathers of all ages deserve praise and acclamation, we should raise a special cheer for the nation's more recent dads." A humorous list of 30 changes in their lives new fathers may recognise. (SMH, 1 Sept 2007) read more | digg story - [LEGMO, playing with the building blocks of (plastic) life](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/11/28/legmo-playing-with-the-building-blocks-of-plastic-life/) - Building Lego ducks for my child I ran out of appropriate blocks. Desperate to complete the project, as any Lego mad scientist would do, I chose to opt for a hybrid animal. Using pieces from the farm set, cow genes were combined with the existing duck, resulting in the transgenic (cow)duck. But how far should - [Prams put squeeze on Sydney buses](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/01/21/prams-put-squeeze-on-sydney-buses/) - There is a baby boom in Sydney at the moment, most apparent in inner city suburbs. But state public transport system is failing new parents with prams. New policies by State Transit are making it harder to use the service, at a time when people should be encouraged to be more green and use public - [Playground for little kids or big kids?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/02/04/playground-for-little-kids-or-big-kids/) - Camperdown Memorial park children's playground is in disrepair. From the pile of empty bottles outside the playground it looks as if there was a party in the playground. And a rowdy one at that. The lock on the gate is broken. So without an ever constant eye a child may escape. Or a dog may - [What happened to salearn?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2006/06/18/what-happened-to-salearn/) - As a displacement activity to studying I decided to train SpamAssassin with the last few months of spam email. Uploaded the mailbox of spam to the server and entered the command salearn and got the error salearn: command not found. Searching the SpamAssassin site and wiki were no help. After a bit of googling I - [Fake perl in oyster, read all about it](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/06/06/fake-perl-in-oyster-read-all-about-it/) - As it happens there is a man selling Sydney Rock Oysters laced with Viagra. His idea was to produce a super aphrodisiac. Perhaps a smart marketing move, unfortunately the same can't be said about his Internet usage. He has been trying to promote the idea through a website. And when an email from Google arrived - [Painting Broadway](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/03/22/painting-broadway/) - Late at night. When all the shops are closed (save Coles and Kmart). And the customers have all but disappeared. The painting gnomes roll out their hydraulic platforms, and touch up the ceiling. - [Why it can be hard to go to bed](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/03/21/why-it-can-be-hard-to-go-to-bed/) - It was interesting to watch this video about 'Cognitive Surplus'. What people do when they have too much free time. And how the Internet is a vent for the creativeness that everyone possesses. On the other hand this cartoon conveys the problem encountered when there is a clash of creativeness on the Internet. - [HHGG - RC Sensitive Sunglasses](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/03/06/hhgg-rc-sensitive-sunglasses/) - Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy Entry: RC Sensitive Sunglasses Description: Eye wear proscribed by the Australian Government, designed to go black, preventing 'inadvertent exposure'. Always keep your cool when viewing the Internet. - [New job = No life](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/02/28/new-job-no-life/) - I have a new job :) I have no life :( Not much commentary posted her in recent weeks as I have a new job. Which is good because it pays the bills, but it leaves little time for much else at the moment. Would have liked to post comments about interesting things in the - [Government to bar code kids to keep better stastics](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/02/24/government-to-bar-code-kids-to-keep-better-stastics/) - As part of a new system implemented by the Federal Government, all school students will be bar coded. Students will be required to scan themselves when they site for tests to improve data tracking. And, as an added benefit, it will allow students to swipe to logon to computers, setting the correct Internet Filter setting - [Probe logger](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/08/23/probe-logger/) - Probe logger \ noun: The alien who's job it is to record details about mind probes installed in abductees. - [Kids relegated to purgatory at Broadway](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/02/06/kids-relegated-to-purgatory-at-broadway/) - In their infinite wisdom Centre Management at Broadway Shopping Centre have moved the kids area to level 3, next to Priceline. The furthest they can get it away from the shops without leaving the centre? This is the second time in a year they have move the kids playground. Is the reason for moving, that - [Sausages gone too quick](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/11/09/sausages-gone-too-quick/) - A packet of chicken sausages in Coles Broadway. The extra sticker says 'Quick sale, Still fresh', but it looks like the sausages have gone too quick and already shoot their load. - [And he waits](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/02/05/and-he-waits/) - Standing firm at the curb, he looks toward the oncoming cars. His stance enhanced by the jacket and sunglasses. Fate is coming and he is waiting to embrace it. Or, maybe the bus us just running late. - [iiNet one, AFACT zero](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/02/04/iinet-one-afact-zero/) - This morning the twitterverse was abuzz with the news that iiNet had won the cast AFACT brought against them. It was found that ISPs are not responsible for what users use them for. Nice to see you can't punish ISPs for hearsay copyright infringement notices. Now, can the same be applied to what users view? - [Ferrari goes Anime](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/01/30/ferrari-goes-anime/) - I don't normally write about cars here, so consider this post to be about Anime. I recently cam across images Ferrari 458 Italia. And it looked to me like something out of Japanese Anime. Perhaps Ghost in the Shell. or Bubblegum Crisis ? I like the smooth organic styling. It looks almost alive. Ferrari calls - [Out of order ATM](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/01/28/out-of-order-atm/) - Sorry, this machine is temporarily out of service Doesn't it really annoy you finding an ATM that is not working? First the banks charge you for using someone else's ATM, then you find their ATM broken so you have no choice. Not that I needed this one, I just though it was a good example - [Australian Internet Blackout v1.0 released](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/01/25/australian-internet-blackout-v1-0-released/) - Just updated my Australian Internet Blackout WordPress plugin to version 1.0. Version 1.0 makes use of the wp_enqueue_script() function to load the Blackout JavaScript. This should stop the double loading of jQuery, and avert possible conflicts (that is the theory anyway). You can find the new version here: Australian Internet Blackout plugin page Australian Internet - [Schools will be rated by Lleyton Hewitt](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/01/24/schools-to-be-rated-by-lleyton-hewitt/) - In today's Sun Herald Julia Gillard reviles that schools will now be rated by Lleyton Hewitt. Upon hearing the news at his court in Melbourne Mr Hewitt raised his fist and screamed in joy. The familiar 'Common' could be heard a block away. Teachers are expected to object to this appointment, but the government sees - [Australian Internet Blackout WordPress Plugin](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/01/23/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 Australian Internet Blackout. This plugin automatically adds the necessary JavaScript to you blog to display - [Kraft's sweettooth snacks on Cadbury](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/01/20/krafts-sweettooth-snacks-on-cadbury/) - Cadbury, my favourite brand of chocolate, is being devoured by Kraft. For a deal worth £11.5 billion ($20.28 billion), or 860 pence a share, most of the articles I have seen talk about the worry of having to make 'making significant cost savings', ie job losses. And while I sampathise with the people that may - [Toilet signs in other languages](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/01/16/toilet-signs-in-other-languages/) - Do you see many signs in multiple languages and wonder of they all say the same thing? Say this sign in a Vietnamese restaurant in Marrickville, and thought was interesting to find the Vietnamese of the message in English. Vui lòng bỏ bằng vê sinh và o thùng rác. Which Google Translate converts to "Please put - [Odd Spot #538: Christmas crackers every month](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/01/29/odd-spot-538-christmas-crackers-every-month/) - Around 50% of the population may already know this. But for the other 50% here is a weird fact I just learnt. Women using Fleur sanitary pads get Christmas crackers every month. You see, not only do you get a feminine hygiene product when you open a Libra Fleur pad. You also get a list - [Caught by NetBank problems?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/07/04/caught-by-netbank-problems/) - Walking though Paddington today I noticed a few of these advertisements on bus stops advertising the 'marvel' that is the Commonwealth Bank of Australia's NetBank. Is NetBanking easier then reading this billboard? Apparently not, according to many of its customers recently. In the past week the CBA's customers have faced a service that does not - [Stephen Conroy Scope Creep](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/03/31/stephen-conroy-scope-creep/) - It was interesting to read that Stephen Conroy agrees that scope creep is a 'legitimate point to raise'. Though he tries to duck any blame by pointing the finger at 'parliamentary process for the possibility of the list expanding'. Just recently Conroy asked us to have faith in our elected parliment to pass the right - [Teller powered down for the day](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/01/14/teller-powered-down-for-the-day/) - Here you can see the latest model bank teller droid powered down at the end of the day. With the new power conservation laws in place, all unneeded appliances (droids included) must be powered down. Thereby reducing the nations carbon footprint. (The bank had closed for the day. There were no customers left, only staff. - [Which anti filter group should you belong to?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/01/13/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 article about this problem: 'Taking control of the campaign against internet censorship'. It clearly addresses - [When the pricing at Coles doesn't add up.](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/01/12/when-the-pricing-at-coles-doesnt-add-up/) - This seems to be a problem with this price tags in the Coles flavoured milk section. If you are paying $6 for 3 Ice Breaks, and the price is $2.95 or $2.89 each, I would hope you save more than $1.44. - [Signage for drunks](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/01/07/signage-for-drunks/) - Every wondered how drunks lying on CityRail trains know what they shouldn't be doing? Looks like someone else had the same idea and moved the prohibitions sign accordingly. - [Banks Y2K10 bug](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/01/05/banks-y2k10-bug/) - So it appears that the Y2K bug has turned up a little late. Maybe the big had budget and scope problems, and is running behind schedule? The Bank of Queensland EFTPOS machines have had problems since the 1st. And now it appears Bank West EFTPOS terminals are having the same problem. All deciding it is - [Turn off HTML in email -HOWTO](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2003/02/17/turn-off-html-in-email-howto/) - I prefer not to receive email sent as html. After explaining to people too many times why you should use plain text rather than html email I decided to write it up as a document. Below is a link to version 0.5 of the documentation I have written. Why you should turn of html email, - [In with the old, and Out with the new.](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/01/03/in-with-the-old-and-out-with-the-new/) - Walking down George Street Sydney it was interesting to catch a truck going down the street replacing the festival signs. A workman was lifted in a bucket to remove the New Years Eve posters and replace them with Sydney Festival ones. - [Washed out alternate Christmas](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/01/02/washed-out-alternate-christmas/) - The family Christmas picnic was postponed a week this year due to the storms. Unfortunately, it seems, the storms decided to return today just to spite us. As luck would have it, we got a call to tell us the storm was coming. Packing up at Brontie just before the downpour hit. And relocated to - [Australian Net filters may block porn and gambling sites](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/10/27/australian-net-filters-may-block-porn-and-gambling-sites/) - Family First Senator Steve Fielding wants hardcore pornography and fetish material blocked under the Government's plans to filter the internet, sparking renewed fears the censorship could be expanded well beyond "illegal material"... read more | digg story - [Children's welfare groups slam net filters](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/12/01/childrens-welfare-groups-slam-net-filters/) - Support for the Govt's plan to censor the internet has hit rock bottom, with even some children's welfare groups now saying that that the mandatory filters, aimed squarely at protecting kids, are ineffective and a waste of money. The filters, which will block "illegal" content for all Australian internet users and "inappropriate" adult content on - [And on the 8th day...](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2010/01/01/and-on-the-8th-day/) - And on the 8th day God created the Internet Filter. Commanding 'Thou shall have no other Internet before me'. - [Fahrenheit 451 staring Stephen Conroy](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/11/15/fahrenheit-451-staring-stephen-conroy/) - For those that can't read all the text on the movie poster: presented by OFFICE OF FILM AND LITERATURE CLASSIFICATION Stephen Conroy as Guy Montag Fahrenheit 451 2009? staring STEPHEN CONROY and STEVE FIELDING director AUSTRALIAN COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA AUTHORITY producers APATHY, CONFUSION and KNEE-JERK REACTION executive producer AUSTRALIAN TAXPAYERS distributor NATIONAL BROADBAND NETWORK R18+ - [Who's looking out my window?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/12/31/whos-looking-out-my-window/) - With a consistent 9 to 10 views a day since I put it up at the beginning of the month, this photo is currently one the most popular on my flickr stream. But who is looking at it? It is a nice view of the wharf out the window of the KPMG building in Sydney. - [Clouds in sunset over Glebe Point Rd](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/12/30/clouds-and-sunset-over-glebe/) - Streaks of clouds coloured pink by the sunset over Glebe. Taken looking down at Glebe Point Rd from the Broadway shopping centre car park. Not sure which is the better photo of these two. The first has better colour and more movement, with the bus, but the second has better balance, with the white building - [And the bank said "Go home and procreate"](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/12/30/and-the-bank-said-go-home-and-procreate/) - Japan's largest banking group says 'Go home and procreate'. Taking the government directive to boost the population seriously, management at Mitsubishi UFJ sent staff an email telling them to go home at 5:10pm rather than the usual 7pm. The idea being this would leave them with more energy at the end of the day, and - [Strawberry Ice Cream Soup](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/12/29/strawberry-ice-cream-soup/) - A plate of strawberry ice cream that has been left unattended and mostly melted. Looks like a bowl of pumpkin soup doesn't it? - [Asleep on the train in Tokyo](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/08/01/asleep-on-the-train-in-tokyo/) - Commuters asleep on the Chūō-Sōbu Line. With the amount of time people spent travelling on trains in Tokyo it is not uncommon to see some people sleeping. A hectic day at work, then the required social night out with work colleges, I'm sure you would need to catch up on some Zzzz too. - [If there is danger...](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/04/11/if-there-is-danger/) - Sign from a carriage of a State Rail train in Sydney. The sign reads: Emergency Procedure 1. If danger present move to another carriage 2. If you are last close the door behind you 3. Inform guard or driver of danger 4. Remain on the train 5. Follow instructions from crew The question in response - [Queuing for Christmas](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/12/24/queuing-for-christmas/) - Mad crowds at Coles Broadway on Christmas eve? Outside it didn't look that bad. Inside there were lots of people, but the isles were not jammed full. The checkouts at one end were quite full. You can see even the 'Self-Scan' checkouts (they put in to replace the Express ones) have a queue. Although the - [2000 Condoms. Why do you need 3 packs?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/09/21/2000-condoms-why-do-you-need-a-3-pack/) - Found this package in a drug store* in Tokyo. A 3 pack of 2000 condoms. Who do you think would need 6000 condoms? Well, reading the side of the pack it only contains 12 and 2000 is just the model number. Seems a little misleading though. *'drug stores' in Japan are like chemists in Australia, - [Collection of clouds](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/12/23/collection-of-clouds/) - A collection of cloud photos from today. - [Why the Macintosh is good for your sex life.](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2004/11/07/why-the-macintosh-is-good-for-your-sex-life/) - This cartoon from PvP shows you why Macintosh computers are good for your sex life :) Player vs Player: 2001.05.09 - [Bad Planet is back](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/08/08/bad-planet-is-back/) - Issue #1 of Bad Planet was published back in December 2005. I thought it looked like a good comic. Unfortunately issue #2 never materialised. Well, it seems the wait is over. After a year and a half wait issue #2 is finally being released today, 8 August. Aint it cool posted a review saying that - [Backed up due to bus strike in Sydney](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/12/20/backed-up-due-to-bus-strike-in-sydney/) - With the bus strike in Sydney the trip home on Friday evening must have been a long and tedious one for many. Here you can see Wattle Street, one of the main feeder roads for the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Anzac Bridge, backed up all the way to Broadway. - [Abbot to de-legalise abortion, then remove no fault divorce?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/12/13/abbot-to-de-legalise-abortion-then-remove-no-fault-divorce/) - I was thinking about Tony Abbott's recent appointment as leader of the Liberal party. Apart from his dislike of the ETS (we just need dykes like the Netherlands), and the fact Abbott doesn't know what peak oil is, his policies include a strong desire to make abortion harder. Without delving into the reasons this could - [Wheelchairs and strollers approaching, are you ready?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/12/06/wheelchairs-and-strollers-approaching-are-you-ready/) - Outside Paddy's Markets today I noticed these signs to forewarn you. Prepare for the arrival of wheelchairs and strollers (stage left). Are you ready? - [A supermarket aisle to marvel at](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/12/01/a-supermarket-aisle-to-marvel-at/) - Noticed this sign at the end of an aisle in Coles at Broadway shopping centre. Perhaps it is a sign of things you will need together. ie. if you eat too much canned fish, Mexican and Asian food, you will need a new pair of underwear or a nappy. After which you will only be - [Feel penalised for bad fashion sense on CityRail doll?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/11/26/feel-penalised-for-bad-fashion-sense-on-cityrail-doll/) - As you can see from this poster, CityRail is going to be imposing on the spot fines for bad dress sense. Don't wear those Aggressive cut jeans. You might be up for a $400 on the spot fine, or 3 months imprisonment. And especially, doll, don't look anything like this. Or the CityRail fashion police - [Trending Topics Mash (20091116)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/11/16/trending-topics-mash-20091116/) - Have not done a Trending Topics Mash for a while. So her is one today I Have Never Used New Moon in Modern Warfare 2 on Dravid, Although #theresway2many #wherethehellyoubeen for #musicmonday Goodnight #TTMash (permalink, image) - [Can you have energy without sugar?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/11/15/can-you-have-energy-without-sugar/) - Energy drinks for diabetics? Or maybe just the weight conscious? I found that V is offering sugarfree invigoration, an energy drink without the sugar. With that nice shiny silver label. But what is the point? Don't you need sugar for energy? Or is this just for the caffeine / guarana hit? Fancy drinking an energy - [Coffee for two?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/11/14/coffee-for-two/) - Right next to the Gloria Jean's Coffee on Railway Square a new coffee shop is about to open, Charlie Lovett. It is interesting to notice the similarities in colour scheme, yellow and cream on a brown background. Ok, I think it bills itself as a patisserie or cake shop, but it is not too hard - [24 Hour Flood Damage Service](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/11/11/24-hour-flood-damage-service/) - Need some flood damage? Look no further that that this helpful business. Available to provide flood damage 24 hours a day. Um, perhaps I'm reading that wrong. - [Are you feeling Green, or Yellow, or Blue?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/11/05/are-you-feeling-green-or-yellow-or-blue/) - I saw this collection rubbish bins in Ultimo. With Green, Yellow and Blue lids. These days many local governments garbage collection services come with different bins for different types of rubbish. Of the bins below: green is actually general rubbish; yellow is general recycling; and blue is for paper recycling. What colour bins does your - [Hollywood needs a Push](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/10/07/hollywood-needs-a-push/) - I occasionally peruse the Apple movie trailers or HD Trailers sites to see what movies I can look forward to seeing. At the beginning of the year I remember seeing a trailer for Push. Looked interesting. Start with psychics, mix in some secret government agency, and an Asian city to give it a exotic look. - [The weather will be mild, and blazing hot](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/11/07/the-weather-will-be-mild-and-blazing-hot/) - If you are using a Mac, there is a nice Dashboard Widget that displays the next 7 days weather forecast in Australia, Weather Australia. Drawing its data from the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM). Much better than the widget that comes with the OS for Australian information. There are the occasional hicups though. Looking at today''s - [Where has my Oak chocolate milk gone?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/11/03/where-has-my-oak-chocolate-milk-gone/) - Am I obsessed with chocolate milk? Maybe, but it contains 2 important elements, milk and chocolate. Visiting Woolworths at Town Hall, Sydney today I noticed a complete lack of Oak chocolate milk. Actually a complete lack of any Oak flavoured milk. And not only was it missing from the shelves of the fridge. There was - [Time travelling bread on sale at Woolworths](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/01/06/time-travelling-bread-on-sale-at-woolworths/) - At Woolworths in Marrickville Metro on Friday night I noticed some bread from a different time zone, +851 GMT. It was interesting to so much bread on sale, a full table and shelf. Must have cooked too much and about to go off. But close inspection revealed that it wasn't to expire till 10 or - [New hair cut (shop)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/10/06/new-hair-cut-shop/) - Went though Newtown tonight, and noticed that Daniel Mostyn hair has been replaced. The shop is now labeled Dirty Girl hair. The font of the new title is the same as used for the previous name. I wonder if he has closed or moved elsewhere? Maybe just a change of image? Though would you want - [Restart your Mac for PowerPoint Help](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/11/02/restart-your-mac-for-powerpoint-help/) - On needing to install a new PowerPoint theme, downloaded from the web, I found these useful instructions in the help menu. Save the template to /Users/username/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/User Templates/My Themes. Restart your Mac. I suppose these instructions are written for all the Mac switchers. To make them feel at home with Microsoft again. You have selected - [iSnack for less](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/11/01/isnack-for-less/) - With all the uproar over the iSnack 2.0 name recently, it looks like Coles at Broadway is trying it off load its existing stock. There are a couple of question though... Do you really want 2 iSnack 2.0s? And would you pay $5 for them? - [Sorry we're closed](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/10/31/sorry-were-closed/) - Sign inside coffee shop on the George St side of The Galleries Victoria (TGV) reads "Sorry we're closed". Though at 1/4 past midnight, I'm not really looking for coffee, just sleep. I liked the contrast between light and shadow, black and shiny, and the polite little sign. - [Juxtaposition of architecture](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/02/20/juxtaposition-of-architecture/) - It is interesting to see some of the juxtaposition of architecture around inner city Sydney. Like this nice terrace of Federation houses just off King St in Newtown, with the big ugly Telstra building sitting in their backyards. - [What do you have in the first aid section?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/10/27/what-do-you-have-in-the-first-aid-section/) - I'm not sure all the things in the first aid section at the local Coles supermarket should really be classified as such. Band-aids and other bandages are a normal part of the first aid section. Now, I can see that condoms might fit. Though they seem more as a preventative measure. Although once you need - [fragrant disregard](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/10/26/fragrant-disregard/) - fragrant disregard \ phrase an obvious, conspicuously bad sense of smell "He showed fragrant disregard at the markets, and bought fish that smelt dreadful." -- The English on this menu in China Town reads "Shredded pork in fragrant hot sauce". Although, a literal translation of the Chinese 魚香肉絲 would be "fish-smelling shredded meat". Which shows - [Multi buy and save, or buy one and pay the same](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/10/23/multi-buy-and-save-or-buy-one-and-pay-the-same/) - Noticed the label on the shelf in Coles exhorting the wonder that is 'Multi Save' on 200g blocks of Cadbury chocolate. You can buy 'Any 2 for $6'. A wonderful saving at only $1.50 per 100g. Or you could just buy them individually for $3 each. A bit of false advertising then? (Better than the - [Economically stimulating in Balmain](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/10/22/economicly-stimulating-in-balmain/) - In Balmain at Balmain Public School you can see some of the effects of the Economic Stimulus package coming into effect. Today I noticed that one of the school's building is/has been torn down. And they are currently scooping up the rubble with a ditch digger. Can't remember what the old building looked like. Though - [So much for one post a day](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/10/21/so-much-for-one-post-a-day/) - Had intended to do one post a day for October. Some social commentary, of a picture commenting on things I saw. It worked for half a month, but October just happens to be at the wrong time of year. Too much madly rushing to finish assignments. And not enough (spare) time to write commentary on - [What should I buy now that the Australian dollar is doing well?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/10/19/what-should-i-buy-now-that-the-australian-dollar-is-doing-well/) - Now that the Australian Dollar is doing well, about US$0.92 to the AU$, it seems like the perfect time to buy all the stuff I wanted overseas. The only problem is, what did I really need? And all the recent upheaval in world finances had made me thing: Do I really need it? The dilemma - [Meat the new rules, or beef about labelling](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/10/10/meat-the-new-rules-or-beef-about-lebelling/) - An article in the Sydney Morning Herald describes the poor state of beef regulation in supermarkets. And notes we should all pay more attention to the state of beef in supermarkets. According to an existing voluntary agreement by Meat and Livestock Australia, cows 3 1/2 years or older (eight-tooth cows) are considered only suitable for - [Encrypted laundry service](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/10/15/encrypted-laundry-service/) - Worried about keeping your linen clean, and secure from interception? Are there bugs in your laundry? Can you bank on it coming back to you clean? Try the new SSL Spotless Linen service. And secure your bedding with the latest encryption technology. - [Sign Under Test](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/10/13/sign-under-test/) - Looking down Broadway in Ultimo. A new sign for the RTA to give motorists 'important' directions stands with a test message. - [Nothing interesting here](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/10/12/nothing-interesting-here/) - There is nothing interesting here today. Please check back tomorrow for more social commentary. - [Vending machine sign maintenance](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/10/09/vending-machine-sign-maintenance/) - Worker fixing the sign mounted atop a ticket vending machine on Town Hall station, Sydney. Apparently the sign is there to spruik the fact the machine also takes Eftpos. Unfortunately this has creating a longer queue in front of the vending machine next to it. - [Now Leasing on George St](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/10/08/now-leasing-on-george-st/) - Across the pedestrian crossing to the Blacket building on the corner of George and King streets. All the window filled with 'Now Leasing' signs. A little hard to see in the small version, but an interesting tile of text in red and green. - [Apple vs Woolworths, the apple of my eye](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/10/05/apple-vs-woolworths-the-apple-of-my-eye/) - Would you expect to buy a computer from this retailer? It seems that Apple has taken offence to Woolworths new logo. According to Apple the stylised 'W' is too close in look to the Apple logo. And would confuse the general public. If you read the Sydney Morning Herald article, Apple claims Woolies is getting - [Trainee surveyors at UTS](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/08/24/trainee-surveyors/) - A row of student surveyors stood outside University of Technology, Sydney's building 2 this morning as I went in for my lecture this morning. There has been quite a few groups of students standing round with this tripod things. I suppose it is the time in semester when surveyors got let loose on the work - [A shorter long weekend](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/10/03/a-shorted-long-weekend/) - This weekend in New South Wales is a long weekend. Monday is a public holiday, Labour Day. But it is also the start of Daylight saving. So, our long weekend is actually one hour shorter. - [Queue of shopping trollys](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/10/02/queue-of-shopping-trollies/) - Found this queue of shopping trolleys waiting in a side street a few blocks from Broadway shopping centre. Is it that multiple people dump their trolleys in the same place? Did someone need all these trolleys? Or did they gather here of their own accord? One of life's mysteries I suppose. - [Saved by Science, or its songs](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/10/01/saved-by-science-or-its-songs/) - I was listening to Robotech Perfect Soundtrack album, and it was interesting to find the song Saved by Science. Which got me thinking. How many songs can you think of that relate to science? Is there a good list? There are the themes from Weird Science, Weird Science, and from Electric Dreams, Together in Electric - [Sky Energy](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/09/27/sky-energy/) - Looking up the Energy Australia building on George street in Sydney CBD at sunset. You can see the moon above the building. - [Get on the ethical coffee bandwgon](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/09/23/get-on-the-ethical-coffee-bandwgon/) - Starbucks in Sydney now claim that all their espresso is ethical and responsibly grown - [They multiplied like, park benches...](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/09/18/they-multiplied-like-park-benches/) - First there was one, then there were two, and now it seems their number is to increase to four. The park benches are multiplying like binary numbers. As much as I could tell, from talking to the council workers setting up the moulds, there had always been the plan to put in this many park - [And then there were two...](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/09/03/and-then-there-were-two/) - Back in July two concrete slabs were poured in Gladstone Park, then one was removed before it got its park bench. Well, it seems they did want two after all. A new seat has appeared in the last week or so. I wonder what the disappearance and reappearance is due to? - [Block busted in Newtown](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/09/08/block-busted-in-newtown/) - Walking down Enmore road to trivia at the Duke I noticed the sorry state of Blockbuster Newtown. An empty shell of its former self. Closed earlier today, apparently, on 8 September 2009 according to the sign. I remember when it was in a larger premises across the road. But the change in consumer behaviour moved - [Meet at Coles, and have your beef](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/08/26/meet-at-coles-and-have-your-beef/) - I saw this package of diced beef in the local Coles supermarket. No label stuck to it to indicate price or, more importantly, no used by date. Had intended to mention it to staff as I went though the checkout, but it slipped my mind at the time. Do you think I should email them - [From bridge to bridge](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/08/20/from-bridge-to-bridge/) - A view from Anzac Bride across to the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Taken as a bus carried me over the bridge to Balmain. I think it is quite good for a short taken with a camera phone as the bus hurled along, but I would have liked something better on me to take the phone. - [Smoking Kills (computers)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/08/16/smoking-kills-computers/) - As you can see from the cash register on the tobacco counter. (Coles, World Square) - [I'm a PC](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/08/13/im-a-pc/) - A mild mannered PC sitting reading a book at one of the bus stops behind the Queen Victoria Building. - [Local Photography Competition](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/08/08/local-photography-competition/) - Competition poster on the notice board at in Darling Street Balmain. Take a photo in the Leichhardt local government area between 3 and 9 of August, and upload it to the 'Keeping It Local: Leichhardt 2009' flickr group by 12 August to enter the competition. So you still have a day to go out and - [Shadow of a building](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/09/03/shadow-of-a-building/) - Former TAFE building opposite UTS building 10 on Wattle St. Sydney, Australia It was interesting to find this photo of the building, because it doesn't exist any more. Having been knocked down earlier this year for more green area at the uni. (4 October 2007) - [The Witches of UTS](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/08/03/the-witches-of-uts/) - Rows of witches hats line both sides of the road outside UTS Building 10 on a cold winter morning. Marking for the a stray plane to come into land? No, so someone can come and work on the power poles according to the guy standing nearby in the reflective vest. - [SMH has coffee problems](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/08/02/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 now, but I can see what the problem may have been... It looks as though - [eBay (threaten) to can Skype](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/07/31/ebay-threaten-to-can-skype/) - After spending $US2.6 billion in 2005 on Skype, eBay is threatening to close it because of licensing problems. On of the largest global telecommunication providers was sold to eBay by the Skype founders in 2005. But an integral part of the technology is not owned by eBay, only licensed from Joltid. Who have apparently decided - [Ferries arrive and leave Balmain wharf](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/08/01/ferries-arrive-and-leave-balmain-wharf/) - One ferry arrives as another leave at Balmain wharf. Taken from Mort Bay Park, Mart Street, Balmain. I thought it was interesting to see a queue for the wharf. - [Where is your toothbrush made?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/07/25/where-is-your-toothbrush-made/) - The world is has moved towards globally distributed manufacturing. Many household items are no longer made in your own country. Production having been moved offshore to a cheaper location. But what about your hygiene products? Staple things like toothbrushes and toothpaste? Who every looks at the back of the packet to find where they are - [P.W. Frhouse Museum](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/07/19/pw-frhouse-museum/) - A new museum in Sydney CBD? Who is P.W. Frhouse? Perhaps just a few lights have gone out? Taken at night in Sydney's Darling Harbour. With the neon light of the 'O' not light and the bottom of the 'E' obscured by stuff on the roof. - [Backlit by Brüno](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/07/16/1316/) - Saw Brüno last night at the Dendy on Newtown. And yes it does make you cringe. There are some good bits, and some bits where you just wonder 'why am I watching this'. I can see why people have said the film is really bad, but I think is intended to be. The SMH review - [Down to level 8](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/07/12/down-to-level-8/) - It was interesting to noticed a level 8 amongst the buttons for the lift. And the level 8 was below ground level. I suppose, situated in World Square, it is only a block from China Town. So, being an important number in Chinese numerology, everything needs a level 8. And interestingly the parking levels are - [New park bench missing its twin](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/07/08/new-park-bench-missing-its-twin/) - A new seating near the children's playground in Gladstone Park, Darling St, Balmain. Just off to the right of it there is a patch of grass less earth. Last week I saw a council worker pour and shape two slabs of concrete, which he said for new park benches. But this week there is only - [Are you a twit about trends?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/07/03/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 of tweets. Are you being censored? Although at first it looks that way, apparently it - [Friday 27.6.09](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/06/27/friday-27609/) - I think there is something wrong with this sign on the Lifeguard tower at Bondi beach. It displays a series of messages: weather; low and hi tides; and the current day and date. Though, the day and date don't seem to match. Should be Saturday. (Back posted because I felt a little too sick to - [How do you count to Windows 7?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/06/30/how-do-you-count-to-windows-7/) - If the next version of Windows is version 7, how do you get to that number? The last version of Windows with an advertised version number was Windows 3.1.1. So there must be 3 different version of windows in the interim between 3 and 7. But I seem to remember a few more than that. - [Tokyo, the wierdest city in the world](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/12/19/tokyo-the-wierdest-city-in-the-world/) - According to an article in the SMH, The weirdest cities in the world , the Lonely Planet guide books have rated Tokyo as number one. And though I haven't been to the other cities listed. After living in Tokyo, I can see why it made the number one spot. Talking toilets and microsized pod hotels - [Fishing for bass lures we found the net more than full](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/12/22/fishing-for-bass-lures-we-found-the-net-more-than-full/) - For a friend's Christmas present it was suggested to get fishing equipment, something for fishing bass. Japanese are mad about fishing, get some Japanese stuff I was told. Well that statement is about right. We asked at one fishing shop, Sansui Shibuya, and they sent us to another one of their stores a few blocks - [Queue at Sensoji temple in Asakusa as the new year begins](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/01/01/queue-at-sensoji-temple-in-asakusa-as-the-new-year-begins/) - On new years eve we went and queued up at Sensoji temple in Asakusa. It is custom for Japanese to visit a temple to pray on the first day of the new year. And we though it would be interesting to go along and look while in Japan. It was very cold. But the crowd - [Don't go through this door, its sharp](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/01/19/dont-go-through-this-door-its-sharp/) - It is interesting the peculiarities of shops in different parts of the world. In Japan they play music at you when they are going to close, you get about 15 minutes warning. And quite often they will play Auld Lang Syne. - [Across the platform](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/01/26/across-the-platform/) - Looking across the platform at Shinjuku station, from a train on the Chūō-Sōbu Line to a packed train on the Yamanote Line. - [TiTech at sunset](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/01/30/titech-at-sunset/) - Tokyo Institute of Technology at sunset with a nice fan of clouds. - [A world of coloured vests, changing with the seasons](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/10/06/a-world-of-coloured-vests-changing-with-the-seasons/) - It is interesting to see these rows of vests in different colours had appeared in the UNIQLO UT store in Harajuku, Tokyo. But everything in Japan seems to be seasonal. Soon there will probably be rows of coloured winter jackets in their place. Thought, this is not just limited to clothing. It also includes things - [Clouds over TiTech](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/11/07/clouds-over-titech/) - Photo of the clouds over building 9 at Tokyo Institute of Technology. - [Land of the Loyalty Club](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/11/26/land-of-the-loyalty-club/) - If you have ever walked the streets of Tokyo you will understand why Japan is the land of the loyalty club. At station hubs there are many stores and supermarkets. Not to mention the number of small stores scattered across what seem to be back lanes. And the army of vending machines that keep watch - [Constructing a train station sign](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/11/28/constructing-the-sign/) - It was interesting to see how many people were involved in the construction of a sign on the concourse of this station. People to put up the sign, people too protect the public, and people to supervise them all. I'm interested about the number of people you see at construction sites. Though they all seems - [A view of Akihabara station](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/12/06/a-view-of-akihabara-station/) - Shot from a walkway opposite Akihabara station. It feels both high tech, and run down. - [Please do it at a pub](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/12/13/please-do-it-at-a-pub/) - Please do it at a pub Please do not make a commotion on the train Another community service announcement, brought to you by Tokyo Metro. There is a new one of these put up every couple of weeks. All quite funny. Have take pictures of many of then. Shoudl get round to putting up more - [Tokyo Garbage truck with mascot](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/12/15/tokyo-garbage-truck-with-mascot/) - In Sydney it is not uncommon to see garbage trucks adorned with mascots or other things that garbos have retrieved from the rubbish they collect. Tokyo seems to be more reserved in the decoration of garbage trucks. All that I have seen seem to be a regulation blue, with no ornaments. This is the first - [A terrorist stole my garbage bin](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/07/13/a-terrorist-stole-my-garbage-bin/) - Just had the G8 summit in Tokyo. Lots of notices about beefed up security. And bins have been blocked off so you can use them, er put bombs in them. It is funny though to find that in a society that is very particular about which bin you use, even the alternate bins are designated - [Kyoto to be less combini-ent](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/07/05/kyoto-to-be-less-combini-ent/) - It seems Kyoto is planning to take drastic measures to reduce greenhouse gasses. Close all the convenience stores (combini to the Japanese). Well, not quite that drastic. Japan Today reports that Kyoto is encouraging convenience stores to close early, so as to reduce their carbon foot print. But would they still be convenient if only - [Do you know this roleplayer?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/06/30/do-you-know-this-roleplayer/) - Walking though Harajuku I was greeted by this visage staring down at me from a clothing store. Dark glasses, goatee, frilly shirt, bad jewellery... looks like a role player. Actually, it reminds me of number role players I know in Sydney. And they probably just left a vampire freeform. :) - [Manga, Movie or Other?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/06/26/manga-movie-or-other/) - Is that a manga character I see before me? Or a new movie super hero? No, it is Symantec Man. Just beside Shinjuku station, outside Lumine Est, last night I noticed a giant inflatable figure. Wondering what new manga, or perhaps a new super hero movie, this figure was here to advertise I walked closer. - [Ironic Priorities](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/06/11/ironic-priorities/) - Yesterday there were a few things that happened that I though were a little ironic in the way they were prioritised. I went to a Denny's in Shinjuku last night. Like many establishments in Japan, Denny's doesn't require you to sign the bill when paying via credit card. The irony of the situation though is - [Blimp over Takashimya](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/06/08/blimp-over-takashimya/) - Saw a Nissen blimp moving round over Shinjuku the other night. It was was hovering over the station and had to rise quickly to get over the Takashimya building. Interestingly I haven't previously noticed any blimps over Tokyo. I have heard the occasional Chinook helicopter, but no blimps. Maybe they are just too quiet to - [Post from Japan](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/04/09/post-from-japan/) - No posts here for most of a month. But had no time to post anything. Too much time spent on relocation. To Japan that is. Japan is interesting, but moving is a lot of work in the first few days and weeks. I'll post more thoughts here as time allows. In the mean time you - [What to take](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2004/06/27/what-to-take/) - We sat down and worked out what we are going to take today. Looks like our hand luggage is going to be heavier that the stored luggage, what with all the paper (books, etc) in the hand luggage. - [procrastinate](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/06/25/procrastinate/) - procrastinate \ pro·cras·ti·nate \ verb: ( remember to finish this section tomorrow ) - [Very fast food](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/06/24/very-fast-food/) - Q: What do you call a fast food joint that fills you order before you finish giving it. A: Mach Donalds - [Government vs Internet](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/06/21/government-vs-internet/) - Unless you have been living under a rock, or have no internet connection, you will know that the Australian government is proposing to censor the internet in Austrlia. The recent events in Iran, and people's use of twitter, show how effective censoring the Internet in a country can be. Not very. Not without inadvertently affecting - [No longer the news](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/06/18/no-longer-the-news/) - Once News Plus, now minus news. It seems the news agent in the food court under Myer in the Sydney CDB has gone. Replaced by a Angus & Robertson book sale. As an interesting aside, the food court is covered in advertising for the Dymocks store in George St. Competing factions chains I suppose. - [Not too young for deodorant?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/06/17/too-young-for-deodorant/) - How young is too young for girls to use deodorant? In a supermarket the other day I noticed these 'perfumed body spray's, right next adult deodorant. Obviously they are aimed at young girls via the Bratz brand. Do young girls really need to be pushed into the word of makeup and perfume? - [Australia only 3rd most mono lingual](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/06/12/australia-only-3rd-most-mono-lingual/) - A recent SMH article[1] says that Australia is the 3rd most mono lingual country in the world. According to a report[4] by Griffith Asia Institute we come almost last on the list of the language proficient. With over three quarters, or 78.4% of the population only speaking English. And, although we only got the bronze - [Choose, 100g or 200g for $3?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/06/11/choose-100g-or-200g-for-3/) - In the chocolate aisle at Coles the other day I noticed a paradox in pricing. The 100g blocks of Cadbury chocolate are $2.99. And the 200g blocks are on special at 2 for $6. So would you rather spend $3 and get 100g, or $6 and get 400g? Very much a economics of scale I - [1001 1.0.17](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/06/01/1001-1017/) - 1001 The flickr upload software for MacOS X, 1001, has been updated to version 1.0.17. This release seems to fix the problems that I recently started to experience with 1.0.15: No sets were being listed, and Photos were not being added to groups. Nice to see that the software is still being maintained. 1001 @ - [Light rail in Chinatown, Sydney](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/05/31/light-rail-in-chinatown-sydney/) - The light rail outside Market City, the Paddy's market building, in Chinatown Sydney. - [Pannedemic](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/05/27/pannedemic/) - Pannedemic \ panned-em-ic \ noun: When everyone criticises all you do and think, and you are getting sick of it. - [Ginger is lost](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/05/25/ginger-is-lost/) - A plastic Ginger Bread Man that is lost and waiting for someone to come find him again. Seen against a fence in Harris St, Ultimo. - [The old and the weary](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/05/07/the-old-and-the-weary/) - Saw these flowers left for ANZAC Day a week later, looking a little worse for wear, and though of The Ode [2]. - [Transport for all need not cost $600b: expert](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/05/17/transport-for-all-need-not-cost-600b-expert/) - A SWEEPING, multibillion-dollar transport plan, to be unveiled next week in a discussion paper from a leading transport researcher, Garry Glazebrook, of the University of Technology, Sydney, proposes linking almost every home, office and university in Sydney to upgraded train, tram and bus services within 30 years. Designing a 30 Year Public Transport Plan for - [Closet Colourful (TypeTees slogan)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/02/04/closet-colourful-typetees-slogan/) - Since no one got the Japanese (not that I blame them with it being all in escaped html) I have added a new slogan to TypeTees in English. Closet Colourful Done as a black t-shirt with multi-coloured letters. Think goth who normally wears black, but would secretly love to wear colours. - [The worst thing about moving is...](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/03/20/the-worst-thing-about-moving-is/) - ...lack of connection. And while they both are important, I am not just talking about the Internet or phone here. I moved back to Sydney a couple of weeks ago. Most stuff is still in boxes. Though we finally have a fridge again after a week. The base utilities (water, gas, electricity) work. But the - [Why are we negative about what other people do?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/11/13/why-are-we-negative-about-what-other-people-do/) - I was reading an RPG forum where someone posed the question: Open question: Why do we, at times, feel compelled to look at something else that someone does for fun and evaluate it negatively? There were a number of pages of people's opinions about the matter. Some with a lot of philosophy. I didn't really - [Privacy concerns with MySpace](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/07/30/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 the option to hide your date of birth. But it only hides the number, you - [100 on MySpace](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/08/03/100-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: Though I found that you can't change any of the other settings on the page - [The Apple Buzzle Puzzle: Did AAPL control insolvent reseller](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/05/07/the-apple-buzzle-puzzle-did-aapl-control-insolvent-reseller/) - Apple Australia is being sued for allegedly controlling a failed reseller, trading while insolvent for months. This reseller (and by inference, its managers) was so grossly incompetent that Apple did not trust its management's ability to manage and account for its own business! read more | digg story - [Swine Fu](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/05/03/swine-fu/) - Swine Fu \ swahyn fu \ noun: An ancient martial art form practised by members of the pig family. Similar to the other animal styles of Kung Fu, but developed for porcine rather than to mimic them. This style is characterised by moves such as razorback and brick house. - [Oracle devours the Sun, religious ferver over MySQL](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/04/21/oracle-devours-the-sun-religious-ferver-over-mysql/) - IBM decided not to buy them, though Oracle seems to think it is a good idea. It will be interesting to see how the acquisition of Sun fits into Oracle's host. One question that comes out of the acquisition is: what will happen to MySQL? Oracle being the premier product, will it try to push - [Pirate Bay sunk](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/04/20/pirate-bay-sunk/) - The Pirate Bay court case if over, and the owners of the service have been marched down the plank. The four were found guilty of promoting copyright infringement (2, 3). Now, are the users of Pirate Bay to be deprived of their bits of torrent? Well apparently not. The owners foresaw this as a potential - [Clouds over demolition](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/04/11/clouds-over-demolition/) - The few remaining buildings and chimney of the former Carlton United Brewery on Broadway, Chippendale. It was interesting to come back to Sydney after a year, and find the space opposite UTS raised to the ground. An expanse of open space, and this one tall chimney. I see that this project has been coming along - [All roam leads to Rhodes](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/04/10/all-roam-leads-to-rhodes/) - In my first month back in Australia I went out to Rhodes too many times. Buy stuff at Ikea. Buy stuff we didn't have time for the first time. And the bring stuff back that needed replacing (though their replacing damaged good policy is quite good). Rhodes looks like Mirvac is terraforming it into a - [NBN awarded unto itself](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/04/07/nbn-unto-itself/) - Today the Australian government announced its decision on submission to build the new National Broadband Network. Telstra put itself out of the bid last year by putting in an incomplete submission. So who of the remaining tenders were to take the cake? None of them it seems. The government decided that none of the bids - [Papers get too much of you not getting enough](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/04/03/papers-get-too-much-of-you-not-getting-enough/) - It has been interesting, though getting boring, to watch the banter about the latest book by Bettina Arndt, The Sex Diaries. It seems to have split people into two camps. All men are Liars has a post about The Sexless Marriage, which pays lip service to both views, but seems to sit more on the - [Conroy backtracks on Internet Censorship policy](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/04/01/conroy-backtracks-on-internet-censorship-policy/) - Australian politician Stephen Conroy has begun distancing himself from his highly controversial internet censorship policy. Although this is not a complete backdown. There still the intention to implement a list of filtered sites, just changing what is deemed to be filtered. read more | digg story - [Home Gruen](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/03/23/home-gruen/) - The Gruen Transfer started again on the ABC last Wednesday. As a result the Sydney Morning Herald had a number of articles on it. And reading Adversarial ad men (SMH, 17 March2009) confirmed a feeling that I got last year about the show. While in Japan I had a couple of long bus rides. Needing - [This search engine may harm your browsing](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/02/01/this-search-engine-may-harm-your-browsing/) - Well it looks like Google is fubar. Every search result has a This site may harm your computer. link under it. And they all link to a Warning - visiting this web site may harm your computer! page. All that is except the ones to Google sites, like Google books. And the blog search seems - [No Japanese slogans for TypeTees](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/01/31/no-japanese-slogans-for-typetees/) - Have you ever gone looking at Threadless? There are some nice T-shirts there. It is a community driven T-shirt site. People submit designs; they get voted on; and if the votes are enough they get their T-shirts printed (& US$2000). Since I don't have time to do up designs at the moment I thought I'd - [iSquint at PSP MP4 converters for Mac OS X](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/01/16/isquint-at-psp-mp4-converters-for-mac-os-x/) - I have a nice new PSP 3000 and thought it nice to upload some video to it. But all the software I found for MacOS X crashes or produces bad files. All but one. - [Steve Jobs has menopause](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2009/01/07/steve-jobs-has-menopause/) - In recent news I see that Steve Jobs is having hormone issues. Reports say that his current weight less is not due to a recurrence of cancer, just a hormone imbalance. Isn't it obvious, at 53 Jobs, the mother of Apple computers, has entered menopause. Jobs has entered the 'grandmother' phase of his life cycle - [What will be the next 'e' ?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/11/10/what-will-be-the-next-e/) - Over the recent time some letters have found fame (and fortune?), while others have languished in obscurity. The letter 'e', already the most common letter in the English alphabet, has gained more ground as the short hand for electronic in things like E-mail and E-commerce. The letter 'i' gained much fame as the Internet, with - [Battling Australian unis to bring back fees](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/11/03/battling-australian-unis-to-bring-back-fees/) - UNIVERSITIES will be allowed to charge students a compulsory fee of up to $250 a year to revitalise campus amenities and services which have deteriorated drastically since the abolition of compulsory student unionism. But these fees will go to the university administration, not to student bodies. Who is better able to prioritize fund distribution? read - [Accepting the new black America](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/11/06/accepting-the-new-black-america/) - Yesterday I turned on the TV in my phone just in time to watch Obama's acceptance speech (serendipity perhaps). He scored 336 to 158 (or something like that). It reminded me of an opinion piece I read earlier that day in the Sydney Morning Herald. The article by Peter Hartcher, The nation that stops a - [Aussie govt: Don't criticize our (terrible) 'Net filters](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/10/24/aussie-govt-dont-criticize-our-terrible-net-filters/) - Stephen Conroy, Australia's Minister For Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, gets called to task by an Australian newspaper for ignoring bad results from Internet filtering field tests and for attempting to stifle his critics. read more | digg story - [Construction and clouds](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/10/22/construction-and-clouds/) - It seems Tokyo is constantly under construction. Walking around the streets you would be hard pressed to not to see a construction site. Here is concrete being pumped up into new building, with a nice backdrop of clouds. Apparently in Tokyo it is better pull down old buildings and build anew, rather than renovating. That - [We've been reading your internet, and you've been doing the wrong things](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/09/28/weve-been-doing-your-internet-and-youve-been-reading-the-wrong-things/) - Ah, the joys having a email address published on a web site. All the fun spam you get. I received this email claiming to be from the "Internet Service Provider Consorcium". With an attached zip file. From: "ICS Monitoring Team" To: "client" Subject: Your internet access is going to get suspended Your internet - [Beijing Olympic Medal Count (BOMC 0.4)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/09/13/beijing-olympic-medal-count-bomc-04/) - Seeing at the Paralympic are now on I have updated the BOMC widget to display their medal results. I'm in the process of rewriting the backend of the widget (seeing as this is an experiment of using JQuery in Widgets), but thought you might like it now. So here is the existing code set to - [Firm sues forum to silence critics, 2Clix wades into Whirlpool](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/09/12/firm-sues-forum-to-silence-critics-2clix-wades-into-whirlpool/) - In a move that could set a nasty precedent for Australian website operators and their users, a software firm is suing a community website over comments published on its message board. 2Clix is suing the owner of the popular broadband community site Whirlpool, Simon Wright, for "injurious falsehood", asking for $150,000 in damages. (SMH, 12Sept2007) - [Rain in Shinjuku](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/08/27/rain-in-shinjuku/) - Wet street at night on the east side of Shinjuku train station, Tokyo Japan. (Taken 10 August 2008) - [Beijing Olympic Medal Count (BOMC 0.3)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/08/22/beijing-olympic-medal-count-bomc-03/) - It may be a little late, considering the Olympics are almost over, but I thought people might like it anyway. Here is a widget I wrote to display the medal count at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Since there is no RSS feed for on the Olympic site for the medals I had to write code - [Top 23 hits on Radio Guantanamo](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/08/03/top-23-hits-on-radio-guantanamo/) - What tracks do DJs at Radio Guantanamo like to play? Well the SMH has a list of tracks apparently used for torture. Music used in American military prisons on detainees during interrogation for the effect of: sleep deprivation, culture shock, and disorientation. Now, while I can see how some things could be considered torture, the - [Qld LAN party, after 2 years](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/07/29/qld-lan-party-after-2-years/) - Well it seems that Queensland finally got its LAN party. I noted the speculation 2 years ago, and it seems to have finally happened (without Howard to put it off). The Liberal and National parties in Queensland have merged to form one conservative party in the northern state. Though I think they got the name - [Government censors internet policy](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/07/22/government-censors-internet-policy/) - Yesterday I received the usual email with a summary of domain name news. Though the response about one of the articles was more interesting. ************************************************ CHILD PROTECTION, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION ************************************************ au: Industry Code of Practice to make internet a safer place for children [news release] The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital - [nefurious](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/07/21/nefurious/) - nefurious \ nuh-FUR-ee-uhs \ adjective: infamous because of their (unkept) beard or lack of shaving - [GeoTagged JPGs and Flickr - Life could be easier](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/05/31/geotagged-jpgs-and-flickr-life-could-be-easier/) - Been taking geotagged photos with a camera phone here is Japan. I though this would make it easier to add photos to Maps in flickr. Well it doesn't! I spent a long time trying to workout where the 'use geotag data in jpeg's EXIF' command was when adding images to the map. It doesn't exist. - [Excersise your mind](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/03/18/excersise-your-mind/) - The latest Iron Web Master specs are up. The round 5 theme is fitness. And the sites are due up Thursday 20 March at 3pm PST (-800 GMT?). But what can I use as a parody theme this time? I had thought of doing Exercise, but that is too close to the last one. Maybe - [Go To Hell - Infernal travel service](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/03/14/go-to-hell-infernal-travel-service/) - My latest offering for the Iron Web Master competition if Go To Hell. The theme for round 4 of the competition is Travel, where should you go, how to get there and what to take. So I though why not advocate travel to a destination most people wouldn't necessarily want to go. And the double - [Darkness and Light](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/03/04/darkness-and-light/) - Walking to Marrickville Metro just after 8pm last night, Monday 3 March 2008, and all the street lights went out. Houses too. Well most of them as, interestingly, the odd house's lights stayed on. Must have been on a different grid? For around 45 minutes between 8 and 9 pm there was a blackout in - [It's not easy being green](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/02/28/its-not-easy-being-green/) - In the world of the eco friendly do you find that it isn't easy being green? Are there too many rules to remember? The theme of round 2 of he Iron Webmaster competition is 'Go Green'. With a push for environmentally friendliness, organics and global warming. For my entry I entry I have produced a - [Iron-on Webmaster](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/02/11/iron-on-webmaster/) - As a promotional device WebRing has decided to run a Iron Webmaster competition. Intended to be like the Iron Chef TV show, contestants are given a series of specifications and asked to whip up a website in a number of days. Though the actual Iron Webmaster site could do with some work. As a note - [Choosing Valentine's flowers](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/02/14/choosing-valentines-flowers/) - Man standing outside shop pondering flowers. Took this shot last night and thought it was an appropriate one for Valentine's day. - [Lambenting about Australia Day](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/01/27/lambenting-about-australia-day/) - Watching tennis this week I think I've had enough of the serve by Sam Kekovich. All that lambenting about Australia Day. In past years vegetarians and Cronulla rioters copped the flank. This year Sam racked up some more insulted parties, including the New Zealand PM. As always there is the call for an Australia Week. - [MSG @ Home](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/01/18/msg-home/) - One must understand that this cause and effect relationship is speculation... After dinner last night I got wavy lines in my vision, my vision then went very blurry on one side, and later on me head felt filled with cotton balls with a slight pain down the other side. Like the symptoms of a migraine - [Green with envy, or goblin blood?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/01/14/green-with-envy-or-goblin-blood/) - I stepped out of a bus in Newtown today to see the gutters of King Street running green. Should the Goblin Protection Agency be called? Or is someone just a little envious? Now the amount of water is consistent with the slight drizzel of rain, but it is generally not that fluorescent green. I suppose - [Who or what is WPNG?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/01/09/who-or-what-is-wpng/) - Seen stencils like this on a foot path or road near you? And what does 'WPNG' stand for? These have been popping up recently in my part of the world. Mostly on freshly dig and filled holes in the road or footpath. Initially they looked like a political message, seeing them in Newtown. Do they - [Where is your Australian Passport advice?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/01/08/where-is-your-australian-passport-advice/) - Looking up information about Australian passports the other day I noticed the following sponsored link. The URL listed looked wrong to me. Australia doesn't allow domains straight on the '.au', only as second level domains. There is no www.AustralianPassportAdvice.au. But I wonder how many people realise this? So, is is ethical to advertise a URL - [White rabbit, White rabbit, White rabbit](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2008/01/01/white-rabbit-white-rabbit-white-rabbit/) - And a Happy New Year to everyone. Being +1100 GMT we get a head start on most people here in Sydney. :) References FYI: White Rabbit - Has info about the saying - [Seen better tag lines in spam?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/12/16/seen-better-tag-lines-in-spam/) - Walking past a newsagent last night I saw this ad for the Saturday Daily Telegraph. I'm sure I've seen these phrases somewhere before. Probably in investment advice spam email. You know the sort, those "Savvy Investor" "special offer you can't refuse" email? "Invest in these great stocks that are under valued and see you fortunes - [Automated Santa 0.1](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/12/25/automated-santa-01/) - /* * Automated santa * Version: 0.1 * * http://blog.tengutech.net/ * */ #include #include char[][] children; char[] child; children = populateChildren(); foreach (child in children) { merryChristmas(child); if (isBad(child)) noPresent(child); else if (isGood(child)) givePresent(child); else logException(child, "Christmas limbo"); } - [Chocolate Pizza Cake](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/12/14/chocolate-pizza-cake/) - Went to a social event at Gourmet Pizza Kitchen in Chatswood tonight. And it definitely has fancy pizzas. I wasn't involved in the ordering process, so I don't know all the names of the pizzas, but with 10 people there an nice selection. From the prawn pizza with sweat chilli sauce to the beef pizza - [AvP R - Australia, the other English](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/11/29/avp-r-australia-the-other-english/) - Looking at the Aliens vs Predator: Requiem site tonight it was interesting to see that there are three types of English: North American, Outside North American, and Australian. So what is the difference? Should we feel privileged, or outcasts? Examining the different English options I found the major difference for the 'English Australia' sub site - [Jacaranda by streetlight](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/11/15/jacaranda-by-streetlight/) - I have recently been taking a lot of pictures at night. The idea is to have a gallery of things that people do not normally pay attention to. Here is one I took last night of a Jacaranda hanging over a streetlight in Marrickville. - [Australian Fedral Election flickr groups](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/11/13/australian-fedral-election-flickr-groups/) - There is a Federal Election coming up in Australia on 24 November 2007. All the major, and minor, politicians have a MySpace and a Facebook entry. But people seem to have neglected flickr. The only groups I easily found were for some of the minor parties: DemocratsCampaign2007 electionTracker 07 stringer selection Bennelong (ok, not a - [Bloggers' Union on Strike](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/11/25/bloggers-union-on-strike/) - Came across this parody of the writers strike in the USA. Would the Internet survive if bloggers stopped? What would people do with all that time they spend blogging and reading other people's blogs? (see YouTube movie below the fold) - [How competant is your advertising agency?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/11/21/how-competant-is-your-advertising-agency/) - Think your target market is a monorail user? Want to display ads to people as they zip past above the city? These people might be right for you, or maybe not. Walking through The Galleries Victoria I noticed an advertisement trying to sell advertising space on the monorail station. All the information you need to - [We'll be hunting whalers, purely for scientific purposes](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/11/20/well-be-hunting-whalers-purely-for-scientific-purposes/) - On Sunday Japan sent a whaling fleet off to hunt in the Antarctic. They say that the hunt is being conducted "purely for scientific purposes". With an expected haul of 1000 whales I ask, why do they need to catch so many for scientific research? They wish to measure gender and age distribution of whales. - [Having trouble with your Google PR?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/11/12/having-trouble-with-your-google-pr/) - There have been a number of articles recently written about Google changing their Page Rank (PR) algorithm. And as a result everybody's page rank has gone down. Well, you can't have everybody's Page Rank go down. I'm pretty sure that Google RP works on a logarithmic scale. There are a lot of people with a - [Japanese contraception ethics, is it a woman's responsibility?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/11/08/japanese-contraception-ethics-is-it-a-womans-responsibility/) - While looking for information for my Japanese anti-grope phone application post I came across the article Slow Life, Slow Sex: Pregnancy in middle age far from inconceivable on a Japanese news site. It seems to be a article giving medical advice, but if you read between the lines it gives an insight into ethics of - [Google takes over US Immigration](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/10/27/google-takes-over-us-immigration/) - After spending billions of dollars on measures to catch terrorists, without any results, it is decided the public sector is not up to the job. "The marvels of modern technology," said the woman, shrugging at a nearby sign: Immigration-Powered by Google. With all the data it collects, Gmail/search results/pages visited/adds displayed, Google is considered the - [OfficeOpenXMLConverter gone AWAL](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/10/20/officeopenxmlconverter-gone-awal/) - 404 error Ah, the joys of the new Word 2007 docx format. Had someone sent me a docx file today and needed to work out how to open it on a Mac. A quick search in Google found me the Microsoft Office Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 0.1.1 (Beta). Unfortunately the Download now! - [Have you enrolled to vote yet?](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/10/16/have-you-enrolled-to-vote-yet/) - We all know that the Australian federal election has been called for 24 November, but did you realise that the electoral role closes when the election is called? You need to enroll if you have never been enrolled, or if your details have changed recently (eg name or address changed). So, if you are enrolling - [Cruel Tcard twist to hit commuters](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/10/11/cruel-tcard-twist-to-hit-commuters/) - After 4 years there isn't much to show for the $367 million Tcard contract with ERG. Both ERG and the NSW government bare some responsibility for the delay. And now they are thinking of making public transport more expensive when the system is introduced. Don't you want more people to use public transport, be green - [Technorati: Last blog refernce 38 years ago](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/10/11/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 out to be 38.75 years, quite a lone time. Actually every reference has changed to - [Under the Blue Moon photos on flickr](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/09/25/under-the-blue-moon-photos-on-flickr/) - The Under the Blue Moon Goth/alternate subcultures festival was a couple of weeks ago. And I finally got round to uploading all my photos from the event. Click the thumb nails or see all of them here. I also noticed that a number of other people have Under the Blue Moon photo, from the current - [Cheap chocolate at Woolworths](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/08/22/cheap-chocolate-at-woolworths/) - At $2.49 for a 250g block that's just under a cent per gram. Very cheap Cadbury chocolate. - [Automaticaly updated, but not totally automated](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/08/23/automaticaly-updated-but-not-totally-automated/) - It's funny to see user error messages on computers that act as public notice boards. You would think that this process could have been automated. This photo was taken of one such notice board at UTS in building 2. - [The topsy-turvy world of magnetic real estate agents](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/08/22/the-topsy-turvy-world-of-magnetic-real-estate-agents/) - Magnetic signs on cars are an interesting usage of technology. Though it looks like someone had fun with these ones. I came across this real estate agent's car parked in the Enmore. You can see what look like a business card stuck to the car door, though up side down. Close inspection showed that the - [Aussie shirts keep APEC leader Driza-Bone despite Sydney weather](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/09/13/aussie-shirts-keep-apec-leader-driza-bone-despite-sydney-weather/) - The APEC leaders wore Driza-Bones as the Australian national dress (silly shirt day). Not something I would have liked to do the in heat of the week before APEC, but quite good when the weather turned sour. I hope they also got matching Akubras, though I can see why you wouldn't wear them during the - [Double standards in advertising, its ok to objectify men](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/09/12/double-standards-in-advertising-its-ok-to-objectify-men/) - The post looks at the double standards in advertising, and how society perceives gender roles. A Hahn add turning a heart in the sand to beasts draws complaints. But the revenge addition, turning sausages into mince, draws none. Are our culture or adds responsible for gender portrayal and perceptions? (SMH, 22 Aug 2007)read more | - [Sell off electricity: inquiry](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/09/11/sell-off-electricity-inquiry/) - The NSW government should sell off both the retail arms and the generation business of the state's electricity sector, an inquiry has recommended. All to make electricity cheaper? So we use more of it? But what about being more environmentally friendly and lowering power consumption? (SMH, 11 Sept 2007)read more | digg story - [APEC funny shirts day (photos on SMH)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/09/08/apec-funny-shirts-day-photos-on-smh/) - Photos of the APEC leaders wearing the 'national dress' of Australia, knee-length Driza-Bone coats. (SMH, 8 Sept 2007) read more | digg story - [Revealed: Our national dress (APEC funny shirt day)](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/09/08/revealed-our-national-dress-apec-funny-shirt-day/) - The 21 APEC leaders have posed for the traditional group photo on the steps of the Sydney Opera House wearing brown tailor made knee-length Driza-Bone coats. Each APEC leader was given a choice of four contrast colours for their all-weather coat slate blue, mustard yellow, red ochre and eucalyptus green. (SMH, 8 Sept 2007) read - [365 Nights](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/09/02/365-nights/) - Feel the darkness within. Embrace you inner vampire. Live a year of night. There is a group on flicker where you take a photo of yourself for 365 days. And a number of other groups in the same vein showing 365 of something: beers, pets, kids, knitting, and so on. There are many groups for - [To Evac or not to Evac? UTS](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/08/17/to-evac-or-not-to-evac-uts/) - Finishing lunch under the tower building a low whining sound could be heard in the background. And after a minute I realised it was a file alarm. And moving out side I found these 2 fire engines attending the building. Turns out it was just a false alarm on level 2. No need for me - [This web site begs the question, Y](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/08/29/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 to people? To make it easy to find out about your product/service? Not to make - [Cups this way](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/08/16/cups-this-way/) - An arrow made from plastic cups in the fence on Broadway, opposite UTS building 10. Quite nicely done. - [This is one very sick game](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/08/21/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 used as a model to test the effects of epidemics like bird flu. (SMH, 21 - [Drying up, hands or money](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/08/12/drying-up-hands-or-money/) - Last Friday I came across this device in the men's room at UTS. A shiny new hand drier, with an LCD screen. As you stand to dry your hands advertisements are displayed (along with tinny music). Is the uni finding itself so low on money that it needs to display adverts in the toilets? - [Aliens abduct Weekly World News](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/08/15/aliens-abduct-weekly-world-news/) - A newspaper famous for printing extraordinary stories will finally cease printing. Succumbing not pressures about the validity of its stories, but to its bank balance. Praised in the movie Men In Black as "the best damn investigative reporting on the planet". At its peak in the '80s the Weekly World News sold 1.2 million copies - [Playing chicken at peak hour](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/08/14/playing-chicken-at-peak-hour/) - Photo of King Street bridge in Newtown at peak hour. It amazes me how many people don't wait for the lights, and just try to cross between the cars. Not that I would wish them any ill will, but some people need to learn that dusk is the most dangerous time of day. People are - [Garlic Prawns Ice Cream](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/08/10/garlic-prawns-ice-cream/) - Look at the specials board for this restaurant. The second last item looks interesting, Garlic Prawns Ice Cream. Oh, wait a sec. It says Garlic Prawns in cream. - [101 Uses for Masking Tape - #54 Pedestrian Crossing](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/08/05/101-uses-for-masking-tape-54-pedestrian-crossing/) - I found this interesting creation last night at Central Station, Sydney. The forecourt/carpark area is currently being renovated. And traffic is redirected around road that is being worked on. To accommodate pedestrian traffic weaving though the debris, a temporary pedestrian crossing has been constructed with masking tape. And while it may seem a little silly, - [Sydney freezes](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/07/17/sydney-freezes/) - Yesterday was cold in Sydney, today was even colder, if only by 1 degree. Today was the coldest day Sydney has seen in 21 years, with a temperature of 3.7 degrees C at 6:45am. Sydney has coldest July day in 21 years (SMH, 17 July 2007) - [Y, sometimes, X doesn't mark the spot](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/07/24/y-sometimes-x-doesnt-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 for everything. You need to use the '-Y' flag now. Configuring X Windows for Mac - [Sexy in space](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/07/22/sexy-in-space/) - New space suits are being designed by MIT. Described as being reminiscent of Barbarella, they are figure hugging and use "'mechanical counterpressure' rather than gas to maintain Earth-like conditions for astronauts". Professor Dava Newman is working on 'BioSuits' that will give the wear more freedom of movement than current spacesuits. The envisioned use for the - [Innerwest's lights punched out by Energy Australia](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/07/23/innerwests-lights-punched-out-by-energy-australia/) - Last night a number of suburbs had their light turned off at a quarter to five. And not by choice. It appears that some Energy Australia workers were 'tinkering with' the network in St Peters and 'a fault occurred' causing loss of power to 8 suburbs. Power was lost in Enmore, Erskinville, Dulwich Hill, Marrickville, - [A night on King St Newtown](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/07/17/a-night-on-king-st-newtown/) - Photo of a crescent moon hanging over King St Church St intersection in Newtown. - [Night settles on Enmore Park](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/07/14/night-settles-on-enmore-park/) - Photo from Enmore Park as night settles on the horizon. Using the huge tree in the park at the centrepiece with silhouettes of clouds over head. - [Stuck in a web game](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/07/06/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 the direction of Newgrounds. Go watch some silly movies or play web games. Xeno Tactic - [T&C are paramount to science fiction](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/07/03/tc-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 you to tick the 'I agree to the Terms and Conditions' checkbox, with an supposedly - [Take La Perouse at Bare Island](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/2007/07/02/take-la-perouse-at-bare-island/) - Here are some postcard photos that I took on a recent journey to La Perouse. In the mid ground on the right you can see Bare Island. More photos by anther can be found here. ## Pages - [Contact](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/contact/) - [Australian Internet Blackout](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/dev/wp-plugin/australian-internet-blackout/) - Australian Internet Blackout page at WordPress.org - [Green Chilli Music](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/green-chilli-music/) - Leefe's musical alter ego. Composes experimental tunes in GarageBand. - [Dev](https://leefe.ratestheworld.com.au/dev/) - Pages about my software projects. 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