Category Archives: Rant

How to waste Advertising Dollars

Spend a small fortune advertising how cool you are and spin a web of bullshit about how bad the other guy is… As you can see below, not exactly the most effective result from that campaign… Source: StatCounter Global Stats … Continue reading

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Queensland elections… Enough Already!

Man have we been swamped by advertising for this election. I cannot escape it!! every TV show ad break will have a Labor Ad in it and every show will have at least LNP ad in it. So far I … Continue reading

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To All My Valued Employees…

There have been some rumblings around the office about the future of this company, and more specifically, your job. As you know, the economy has changed for the worse and presents many challenges. However, the good news is this: The … Continue reading

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More on Freeview

  So more details continue to emerge. Adam Turner over at PC Authority as found out from Freeview CEO, Robin Parkes, that the current TV and Devices will be able to continue to receive the EPG because “the Freeview EPG … Continue reading

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Freeview determined to shaft Australian TV Viewers even further!!

Well, What do you know? The more details that come to light about the Freeview Consortium, The worse it gets for Australia TV viewers. As I mentioned in my previous post about Freeview, they are muddying the waters of the … Continue reading

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So Freeview is the future of TV?

So we are being peddled all this guff about how Freeview is going to change our TV forever right? Well, for those that don’t know, Freeview is a conspiracy consortium that was created to promote the Free-to-Air channels in Australia … Continue reading

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Steve Ballmer Interview on ABC

Oh my God… After reading this post on Duncan Riley’s Blog about this interview I shuddered and clicked on the link to read the transcript. It just got worse from there….       Aside from the terrible, terrible questions … Continue reading

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The Great Australian Firewall

  As our esteemed Leader, Mr “Red” Rudd hurls us closer and closr to be the next Chinese province, the government continues to forge ahead with the great Australian Firewall. details have emerged that the “opt-out” system won’t actually be … Continue reading

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What’s up with Online Banking in Australia?

I was reading an article this morning that was a comparison of the online finance management offerings of Mint and Quicken Online  when I got to thinking. Why is it that the  Australian banks have been so slow to add … Continue reading

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Windows loses only %2.54 despite extensive Vista Sucks campaign

According to Net Applications, the market share of Windows dropped from 93.34% in June 2007 to 90.89% in June 2008, representing a difference of 2.45%. Mac gained 1.91% in the same time period and now has a market share of … Continue reading

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