I see that PC Magazine is following other tech publications like InfoWorld and PC World Australia in ditching the print editions. The reason is cost apparently: it’s too expensive to produce paper magazines and get them to customers, according to PC Mag’s Editor in Chief, Lance Ulanoff.
Production and delivery costs are probably not the only [...]
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
There’s been a fair bit of criticism about how well the new “biometric” passports that the US insists on work, and which the European Union has decided to implement as well but that’s been ignored by various governments and parliaments, and they’re with us now.
While I expected that I would pay more and [...]
Here’s the deal: the new Section 92A in the New Zealand Copyright Act means you can take down any site in the country.
How? Simple: make a copyright complaint to the ISP. There’s no onus on you showing in any way that the complaint is valid and the ISP is under no obligation to verify anything.
Don’t [...]
I was talking to my friend Peter Griffin about the gloomy state of media today, when he reminded me of Neil Postman and Amusing Ourselves to Death.
Postman died in 2003 which is a shame, as he made some acute observations early on about media that I rather like. For instance, he wrote:
“Information has become a [...]
Iphone compared to a stone.
I’ve had a new Nokia E71-1 for a while now (it’s going back tomorrow) and was going to review it for one of the publications I write for. That went out of the window, so I thought I should post my thoughts on the E71 here instead. Joel Spolsky reckons the E71 is the best [...]
Translate Facebook into English (UK)…
Hey, I’m Jefe, a mate of Juha’s. We happen to hang around the same parts of Auckland’s underbelly, and after we found out we could ride bikes and drink together we became friends. If you’ll indulge, please allow me to guestblog.
OK, so a good friend lives in Tokyo. For the past couple of years he’s [...]
Writing, not blogging… same stuff I suppose, but the former comes with deadlines. They’re bad, because they creep up on you, mmkay?
Better attend to them now, in fact.
Is $18 a month a realistic wholesale price for 1Gbps fibre to the home? Singapore seems to think so.
