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Compassion Fatigue or just can’t afford to?
May 30th
“Compassion fatigue” may be behind New Zealanders’ slow response to the Indonesia quake disaster, which killed more than 5000 people and has left hundreds of thousands homeless. New Zealand aid agencies said donations have been slow to come in since the magnitude 6.3 earthquake hit densely-populated central Java on Saturday. Public slow to donate to…
Official – Adobe Flash 9 for Linux will exist
May 29th
This may not affect many of you given I’m one of the few people I know that uses Linux for pretty much everything, but this is absolutely fantastic news from Adobe. Yes, Adobe is actively working on the Linux version of Flash Player 9. We expect to make a pre-release version available on Adobe Labs…
Awesome race. Loved it! :-)
May 29th
Driver of the day : M Schumacher Best Tactics : R Barichello Biggest asshole alive : J Fisichella Least deserving team : Renault About damn time : D.C. ;-) Fisi should have been disqualified or something for not yeilding to Webber like that. 3+ Laps!!!!!! Webber’s car died because he spent so much time behind…
Data Caps need to go
May 29th
Back when I was a young blood at Datacom, I was one of the crew that attended an expo to help out with the Microsoft pavilion and a few other odds and ends. This was right at the very infancy of Telecom releasing ADSL in to the New Zealand market. At the time, I asked…
Second Life Professionalism
May 28th
I was reading this on Friday, then it got posted to Slashdot, then I forgot about it till I was searching for something in Google Desktop and it popped up from my web history in that particular search. Aimee Webber is a design guru. Possibly in real life, I don’t know for sure, but definitely…
Missing
May 27th
One packet of Chewy Choc Fudge TimTams. Last seen in draw of my desk. Reward offered if returned unopened. Tags: missing, choc, fudge, timtams
External Firefox extension uninstaller?
May 26th
Hmmmm… I installed the Google Notebook firefox extension for the first time in this particular profile and now Firefox crashes whenever it starts to load a page. Very frustrating. Don’t like creating new profiles just because one extension is screwing things up. Why can’t someone create an external extension removal tool that doesn’t require me…
MasterCard, Vonage and Net Neutrality
May 26th
Wow. Wish I’d been able to get in on this one. 15% in one day… Damn! MasterCard [(NYSE:MA)] debuted powerfully on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday – its shares soaring by more than 15 per cent – after the world’s second largest credit card issuer raised $2.4bn in an initial public offering. It…
AOL’s AIM Triton 1.5 Preview Edition released
May 26th
Hmmm… About 7:30am today I get an email from AOL. At first I thought it was a spam message given I don’t know anyone that still uses their AOL email account anymore… Problem was, my curiousity was getting the best of me and I actually read it. Damn gmail previews ;-) Turns out AOL decided…