Dear Continental, I’m a long-time-eater, first time ranter about your Pasta and Sauce product range. I am was a huge fan of your Creamy Bacon Carbonara pasta and sauce product. But you’ve gone and changed it, and you’ve changed it for the worse. Why oh why?! The change to the pasta to ‘new twista’ pasta [...]

Ever wondered how the Android Marketplace compares to Apple’s App Store or how the Windows Phone Marketplace is going? Well head on over to Distimo – a company that appears to specialise in app store analytics. Lots of great info if you want to know more about the various stores out there if you’re considering [...]

As reported here, here, here, here and originally discussed here on Whirlpool, the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy has censored his own web site to prevent the term ISP Filtering appearing in the site’s tag cloud. Here is a screenshot of what the tag cloud looks like as of [...]

Background On Friday 19th Feb 2010, Sydney Morning Herald reporters Matthew Moore and Andrew West were advised by a contact to go to the website nswtransportblueprint.com.au, where material on the transport blueprint was available. The reporters did not require a password to view the documents, which were available to anyone with the URL address. The [...]

Woohoo! Google Earth app released for Android. Downside is it requires Android 2.1. Guess I’ll just have to hang out for the HTC Hero update supposedly due in March 2010. More info via Slashgear More info via Android Community

Following up from my last post I’ve pieced together a bunch of relevant articles and arguments for anyone interested in some further reading on this issue. Conroy’s filter will not make the internet safer A good article by Suzanne Dvorak from the ABC the chief executive of Save the Children in Australia about why the [...]

OK this is serious. It’s been bubbling along for quite a while now but it looks like the Government and Federal Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Conroy are pretty committed to filtering the internet to prevent any material that is ‘refused classification’ from being accessed in Australia. Why am I against [...]

I have a need to be able to enumerate through the SharePoint User Profile database to collect some stats and do some analysis. Here’s some handy articles I came across while researching it. How To Properly Enumerate User Profiles using the SharePoint User Profile Web Service Updating and Enumerating User Profiles in MOSS MSDN – [...]

According to smh.com.au Ericsson have connected a tree to Twitter. That’s an oversimplification – the tree is equipped with sensors that monitor movement and light and then at various intervals tweets based on the information from the sensors via the API. My favourite quote – “Ericsson promises its not some guy with a laptop hiding [...]

Have you ever wanted to make a phone call while you were underwater? “Hell yes!” I hear you say. Well you’re in luck – for just $US1,799 you can purchase the Underwater Cell Phone System from SkyMall. From the web site: With the Alpha UWCP, talk with someone 15,000 miles away while diving a tropical [...]