The beginning of the end of Telstra

I signed up for Mobile Innovations new Voice-over-IP service today. For $19.95 a month you get a box that plugs in to your broadband service and delivers a standard phone line. Untimed local calls are 10c and include calls to Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane & Adelaide. Other calls within Australia are 10c per minute, billed per…

Drool On

The new iMac has been announced and I want one! On the Apple page it states: You

Why are people embracing free software?

This story about Quicken and MYOB requiring customers to purchase software updates or maintenance in order to receive updates to payroll tax tables embedded in the software go a long way to answering the question. I appreciate the difficulty that a software developer can have in a saturated market – how do you keep revenue…

A particularly sweet donut

The queue at Krispy Kreme wasn’t too long today when I was passing so I thought I should try one in the interest of journalistic integrity or something. Anyway, the “original glazed” is pretty good, although a bit of a sugar overload.

Farenheit 9/11

Like Mr Hicks I also saw Farenheit 9/11 last weekend. I didn’t think it was as good as BFC – although I think that was partly because of the enormity of the story that Moore is trying to tell. Even though the movie is quite long, there are so many threads of corruption that are…

Blog Spammers Go Home

Look, I realise that all you blog spammers are probably just bots, so you won’t read this, but please quit it with all of the comment spam. The longest the comment will last is an hour or two, so it won’t be googled. You are just wasting my time.

Just call me

Call any time Nicole. I mean, its Friday night and I am just sitting here watching Jake 2.0 which I suspect should be called The Bionic Man 2.0 – same bad physics, similar groovy sound effect when Steve/Jake does something amazing.

Lard Lad

They’re just doughnuts people! I can’t believe how many people are lining up at the new Krispy Kreme store at Wynyard. I haven’t tried one yet, so perhaps they have more going for them than just a funky name and retro style logo. Even last Saturday morning, at a time when the area around Wynyard…