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Archive for November, 2006

Schapelle Corby: read her book ‘My Story’ – wrongful imprisonment or badluck?

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

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With the question over her innocence or guilt remaining a controversial question, I have put to together an exhaustive list of resources in order to get a better understanding of the situation.

So what’s my verdict? I think the odds are that she is guilty. And before I run the risk of being labelled a redneck simpleton, let me explain…

The facts say she got caught red handed with drugs, which sucks for her, and her family. Some of Australia’s best sentiment and I dare say some pretty hot lawyers too have not been able to convince the Bali court otherwise. The facts simply don’t go in her favour. Note: I mean facts as in documented reports, I do understand that documents and reports are not always right.

So according to law, and according to the rules, Schapelle Corby is guilty as charged. That is the reality, and like it or not, that is what is happening right now.

Okay, i’ve talked abut the technicalities, but here’s how I feel about the matter;

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Are bookmarklets dead?

Friday, November 24th, 2006

With the rising popularity of Firefox and the 1000′s of useful extensions it may appear that Bookmarklets are indeed, dead.

Bookmarklets or Favlets, are our old friend who helped us through the years of Netscape 3/4/5 and Internet Explorer 3/4/5/6 and indeed 7. Today, Netscape is dismissed at large (thankfully), and Internet Explorer’s extensibility still remains paltry at best. But then there’s Firefox.

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Kevin Bloody Wilson – The Shane Warne Song

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

Kevin Bloody Wilson AKA Dennis Bryant has done it again and this time he spoofs Australian cricket legend Shane Warne.

Although the short bearded comedy singer/songwriter is pushing 60 in the shade he’s still got that Aussie honesty (AKA taking the piss for you yanks reading this) in his humorous take on the controversial cricket star.

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Pirate Baby’s Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

Pirate Baby’s Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006 is a 12-minute, black and white animated movie by Paul Laurence Robertson, featuring music by Cornel Wilczek. It depicts a fictional side-scroller video game, “heavily influenced and inspired by Japanimation, cult 80s platform games such as Double Dragon, Bubble Bobble and R-Type, and Australian popular culture.

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Huge list of Firefox Extensions

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006

One of the things I love about Firefox is it’s extensibility, there are literally 1000′s of themes and extensions available so you can make your browser just the way you want it, which is one of the many reasons Open Source software is so attractive.

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Aussies get ripped off on bandwidth costs – and now i’m really mad

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

“Hello, this is 1999 calling, we have a great hosting deal for you”

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Microsoft Vs Scarface – Say ‘ello to my little friend!

Monday, November 20th, 2006

Let me start by saying;

I hate Internet Explorer 7

Now before you think to yourself “lame, another anti-microsoft rant, i’m clicking my back button” allow me to qualify the previous statement because I really tried to get excited over this latest offering from Microsoft, I eagerly downloaded each beta and really wanted to believe that things would be different this time, the Microsoft Blog said “hey, we’re working for developers”, there were Tabs to look forward to, new RSS support, better security measures, a new interface, and the world was peachy.

But something happened along the way.

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