Month: May 2007

This pains me a little. I am a sometines contributor to the SMH Mashup blog. THis posting by Asher Moses indicates there is some trouble over there – nothing to write about.

My comment, which I imagine won’t be posted, is below.

Link: The Sydney Morning Herald Blogs: MashUp.

“It’s easy to see why Motorola are aren’t responding – they’ve got better things to do with their time.
This is an excellent example of why Fairfax can afford to loose 19 employees. I’d count you and some of the people from the photo desk too.”

Being a board member at Apple must have an upside after dodging bullets re who knew what about options dating. Al Gore here, in his home office with three 30 inch HD Apple screens. Thing is, driving this screen real estate could only be accomplihed with a very serious and highly spec’d MacPro with two extra video cards.

There was a line by an actor (who I can’t recall) in a movie (which I can’t remember) who said (something like): “The criminal mind is far superior to the ordinary.” And if you believe hackers are criminals then this article from Wired proves it.

The guys who invented the copy protection for Blu Ray and HD DVD must be pissed now the genie is out of the bottle. Thing is, at the end of the day you wind up with a 9GB data file. That’s going to take about a week to download. And the crack itself requires some pretty serious teck skills to do. But it won’t be long before some 16 yo kid build a cross platform app to get teh job done. It’ll probably be free, too.

Link: Gadget Lab – Wired Blogs.

The Lambo dealership down the raod from my studio is polishing every car to within an inch of it’s life.

The recent initiatives annouced by Mr Rudd and Mr Howard with regard to planned and proposed rebates to homeowners for the purchase and installation of ‘green’ products is wonderful.

However, looking around the capital of Australia, Sydney I see lots of apartments which are rented. Two points here; a) greening an apartment with solar hot water or rain tanks is not easy and b) most apartments are rented meaning that the investors of said apartments in Australia’s slowest moving economy are not going to want to part with any kind of cash in order to get some of it back They are already doing that to their banks and the taxman.

Low interest or even no interest loans for green improvements are not going to make much impact on investors who are already geared to their eye balls.

But, it’s a great start.