Locked Down Phones and Horrible TelcosLocked Down Phones and Horrible Telcos
Choosing a Phone I was considering renewing my Three contract and getting a HTC Desire HD [1]. What I need is a phone that is good for being a ssh[...]
Dynamic DNSDynamic DNS
The Problem My SE Linux Play Machine has been down for a couple of weeks. I’ve changed to a cheaper Internet access plan which also allows me to download a[...]
Empathy, Autism, and GeeksEmpathy, Autism, and Geeks
LWN has a recent article titled “The dark side of open source conferences” which concerns sexual assault at conferences [1]. There are a significant number of comments with attempts to[...]
Aspie Social Skills and the Free Software CommunityAspie Social Skills and the Free Software Community
LWN has an article by Valerie Aurora titled “The dark side of open source conferences” [1] which is about sexual harassment and sexual assault at Free Software conferences. Apparently some[...]
The Sad State of Shopping in AustraliaThe Sad State of Shopping in Australia
Paul Wayper has written a blog post criticising the main chains of grocery stores in Australia [1]. That is the cartel of Coles and Woolworths (which was formerly known as[...]
Open RespectOpen Respect
On the 5th of November Jono Bacon wrote a blog post titled “MAKING OUR WORLD MORE RESPECTFUL” [1]. He then registered the domain OpenRespect.org for his manifesto [2]. Aaron Siego[...]
Quality of Cameras in PhonesQuality of Cameras in Phones
The discussion in the comments on my post about a mobile phone for Sysadmin use [1] turned to the issue of picture quality. This is an issue for a sysadmin[...]
Victorian State ElectionVictorian State Election
Election Tomorrow On Saturday we will have a Victorian state election. As usual for state elections most people will vote on issues related to the federal government, the mainstream media[...]
The WikireaderThe Wikireader
Just over a month ago I bought a Wikireader [1] from Officeworks (an Australian chain of stores that sell all manner of office supplies). It cost only $99, thanks to[...]
Links November 2010Links November 2010
Guy Deutscher wrote an interesting article for the New York Times about how language shapes how we think [1]. The example of people who have no language construct for self-sentered[...]