Posted in Mini Rants, SocioPolitical, The Main Thread on Sep 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
A couple of sayings which recently caught my ear
On the nature of people’s heritage and culture…
If a fly is born in a horse’s barn it doesn’t make it a horse
and in regard to inherited features from ones parents…
An apple never falls far from the tree
These can be meaningful to every human being I’m sure.
And on [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, Mini Rants, The Main Thread on Aug 14th, 2007 No Comments »
This is a reference post really… somewhere to stick all the links to things which might help folks who have bought the infamous (or not…) EN-306TV-E.
This box is essentially a USB hard drive enclosure with a ‘media player wrapped around it’. It is a China produced piece of kit which has been OEM‘d [...]
Posted in Mini Rants, The Main Thread on Aug 10th, 2007 No Comments »
IceTV yesterday won the case brought against them (in May 2006) by the Nine Network who claimed copyright infringement of their TV schedule. Justice Annabelle Bennett, in her findings, dismissed the whole application by the Nine Network.
The essence is that IceTV, and other aggregators (Yahoo etc), are creating new compilations (which are copyright in [...]
Posted in Building Websites, Mini Rants, SocioPolitical, The Main Thread on Jun 19th, 2007 No Comments »
It seems my previous post was quite timely. Yesterday the Federal Government released its policy on broadband. Of course, one can debate whether this was ‘forced’ by the Labor party’s pre-election broadband policy release.
The whole area of telecommunications policy is pretty complicated - we are still in a, and it will take a long time, [...]
Posted in Mini Rants, SocioPolitical, The Main Thread on Jun 15th, 2007 No Comments »
It seems very odd to me.. in fact it seems damn right outrageous that in my Telstra bill they see fit to send me propaganda. Propaganda my bills are paying for.
What am I on about? Telstra is a business like any other right? Entitled to advertise right? Well yes and no…
Telstra, like BT, and a [...]
Posted in Mini Rants, The Main Thread on May 4th, 2007 No Comments »
..and the tools you’ll need to actually use the stuff you legally own..
My first experience with music DRM (Digital Rights Management) finds me agreeing with much negative comment about it out there on the Internet..
Being a Bigpond customer (not for much longer) I decided to give Bigpond Music a go.. seemed an ok deal.. [...]
Posted in Mini Rants on Jun 13th, 2006 No Comments »
(& what this has to do with micro-payments)
A curious convergence of ideas came to me today whilst, for reasons of length I’ll not explain, I was considering micropayments. These little creatures seem to have died a natural death in the late nineties (witness dead W3C activities) - but have they?
Such services still survive (e.g. BitPass), [...]
Posted in Cultural, Mini Rants on Jun 16th, 2005 1 Comment »
As reported at the Creative Archive site the BBC will provide
Downloads of all nine of Beethoven’s symphonies, performed live by the BBC Philharmonic in Manchester and conducted by Gianandrea Noseda, and that they will be available as mp3 files for one week after broadcast.
They were serious. Each available for one week only apparently as a [...]