After years of waiting I can finally say I have joined the 1TB club! Ever since I filled my 20GB in 1999 I have patiently waited for the day to have ‘infinite space’. To achieve this I would purchase my very own 1TB drive…
What did I get?
Hitting Australian TV ad slots already the Nintendo Wii Fit campaign spouting a ‘combination of fitness and fun’ this gadget’s sales are sure to be massive. History showed in Japan late last year that the exergamer market does exist with over a million units selling. It is now Australia’s turn to adopt this fit gaming craze and our overweight population (on average) certainly needs it!
Touted as the most innovative gadget so far this century is the Read the rest of this entry »
People are wondering why I was so excited by the .asia release on my previous post.
Comparing quality internet domain names to real estate, when the hot properties are sold their resell value will inevitably go up! Check out the Sedo Top 10 auction prices.
Any doubt now? Please comment below 
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On the 26th of March 2008 [dot] Asia domains were released to the public. It has been a massive first-come-first-served fight out. What they (dotasia.org) tried to do was have pre-registrations so companies, individuals and governments could reserve their names and trademarks. As for quality updated information on the net, check the .asia forums out there.
In my humble opinion dotasia.org did well. They are cashing in on the domain frenzy big time. Check the domain tickers on their website. It is basically a scrolling stock market domain price indicator. A group called Sunrise have reserved a giant swath of quality domains and are auctioning them off for a humble penny.
There are people out there who think .asia is a joke. Well I have to seriously say “.ASIA is for REAL!”
This is the market of people-countries-businesses-organisations who want to take their identity onto the internet!
Afghanistan, Antarctica, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Cook Islands, Cyprus, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Georgia, Heard and McDonald Islands, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Japan, Read the rest of this entry »
This is the best $15 you could ever spend on video gaming!
Every system from every era of every genre everywhere! A gamers nirvana.
After walking past the 10 metre neon Mario on Flinders Street Melbourne I entered the ACMI Game On Exhibition. It is $15 Adult $10 Concession. For $5 extra you get a loaded iPod voice overview of the Game On gallery. Skip this as you can read this narrative in 10 seconds from the handout pamphlets. Keep in mind - this is not a video game expo but an exhibition funded by Australian Centre for the Moving Image.
Keep walking straight from the entry and you’ll be at the Memory Map - a collection of artist submitted short videos of the history of Victoria watched from all encompassing futuristic booths and is not a bad experience. Take a left up the escalators and you can watch student made films in the cinemas, have food and coffee at the cafe, or buy cool trinkets at the ACMI shop. Video gamers - you enter, pay, take a right down the stairs to the underground plethora of gaming goodness.
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Let the games begin! Read the rest of this entry »
After checking my network settings for the eightieth time this month I have concluded that there must be a fault of the Google servers. My Internet connection is through Internode and my browser is Mozilla Firefox (IE would not work either!)
The Domino Effect:
One down all down. Is this ‘Net Death‘…
Neo Unjacked 
Now I sit with my insatiable thirst for knowledge and seemingly no way to obtain it. I question the IT world and all its personnel. My online world inaccessible. No emails. No searching through mountains of text with results in a mere second. No checking analytics to gauge my presence in the blogosphere. My heart has stopped, my mind is num, my fingers feebly rest upon the keyboard.
Let there be others!
I am not alone - other testimonials include PitchMy Dec 07 and Gmail down Jan 08. Historical account - Google Admits to Server Crisis May 06 (Could it happen again?)
Could Google in all it’s US$125+ billion wisdom let technical issues result in it’s downfall? Time will tell but I doubt it.
I am looking for updated info from other netizens to contribute to my disgruntled ramblings. You must comment if you have been Googlestomped this month OR if all is fine in your net world - Do tell !!!
uVme is an over hyped gaming network where players enter tournaments to win money. The prelaunch phase had plenty of hype and little substance. I could not even test the games that I would pay money to play. Upon signing up for more information I was both sceptical and excited.
I am not a fan of subscribing to Internet money making schemes and prefer to ‘invest’ my money into more traditional vehicles such as real estate or property. I like to review data about the investment from non-biased sources. I like to look at its history and see if any one else in the investment world has got burned. So I stayed cool, waited for the uVme launch date before jumping into anything.
Why was I sceptical? Read the rest of this entry »
It seems our beloved Adelaide Citilan is illegal under EU law with the Dublin City Council rejecting plans for blanket wireless coverage of the Irish city in early January 2008.
The Citilan enjoyed in Adelaide’s CBD categorised as a municipal Wi-Fi. It is a joint venture from Adelaide City Council, m.net, AirNet and Internode. It provides wireless Internet to mobile PC users throughout the the main areas of the city. Read more: How to use free WiFi Internet on Rundle Mall
A similar venture has been abandoned by Dublin City Council as it would be illegal under European Union state aid laws. Claims have also been made by the British Labour government that the Dublin City Council has been pressured by existing commercial operators to discard of the project. Read more: Dublin’s free Wi-Fi falls foul of competition law
It seems municipal WiFi (mass wireless networks provided by the state) is a failed business model and impossible to maintain without government costs spiralling out of control. Read the rest of this entry »
Nothing better than being back home in Adelaide, shopping on Rundle Mall, sipping a hot coffee and checking emails a.k.a. blogging…
Strolling up and down the main shopping strip in Adelaide showing my girlfriend what Adelaide has to offer. The shops are busy with business as usual and not a cloud in the sky. We seem to have accumulated several bags at each side already so it’s time for a break. Read the rest of this entry »
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