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Jericho rant part II; the power of the ivory tower (people)!
Following on with yesterdays rant about Jericho being taken off the air because a few CBS execs high up in a high-rise office decided it was a failure. I came across a very interesting article from a Jericho fan who wasn’t prepared to sit back and watch the show die a natural death. This individuals [...]
Posted: August 4th, 2008 under Internet Rant.
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HSN; it gets in your head, and it does things to you!
For those readers who live in the US, they will be familiar with a television channel called “HSN”, or “Home Shopping Network”. For the last two weeks at work I’ve had near lethal doses of viewing because we’re trialling a broadcast of the channel on our IPTV service. On any given day I’ve been passively [...]
Posted: July 24th, 2008 under Internet Rant.
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Social network sites; here today, gone tomorrow?
A very good friend of mine from back home whose name I won’t mention (but it begins with L and she lives on the Gold Coast), sent an email out to all in her contacts list, that went something like this:
Hellloooooo everyone,
Just letting you know that I’ve deactivated my Facebook account.
It has simply [...]
Posted: June 23rd, 2008 under Internet Rant.
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No internet; life stops
Well, my internet has been cutoff because I am 3 months overdue on my account. You would think after being a loyal customer for 4 years that my ISP would cut me some slack over a couple of missed payments… but no. I got chopped last night at midnight. I was out at the time [...]
Posted: September 28th, 2005 under Internet Rant.
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An era coming to an end
Ever since I got a free account of one of my companies products which lets me see - among other things - how many people visit my site, I’ve had the nagging feeling that it is time to hang up my old domain, and start again. The reason I feel this is because my current [...]
Posted: July 13th, 2005 under Internet Rant.
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The wonders of the web
Well strangely enough, I’ve had this blogger account for like, two years or something. It’s one of those events lost in memory that was so significant at the time of creation I thought it would lead on to greater things. Alas it did not… until now.
After making my first blog yesterday at work, I figured, [...]
Posted: May 18th, 2005 under Internet Rant.
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The blogging phenomenon
This is my first blog here! I once tried to write my own blog software but then quickly realised that there were a lot of smart people writing blog software far better and far faster than I would ever be able to do.
I really got inspired in this blogging by moby. He’s been writing blogs [...]
Posted: May 17th, 2005 under Internet Rant.
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