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No Comments In protest of two poorly constructed and written bills in the United States, SOPA and PIPA, Wikipedia shut down its English website for twenty four hours. The Oatmeal has a page worth reading. The highlight? The multitude of tweets from students around the world who appear to use the site as their only study resource. Following are six completely random tweets I just discovered.
Music No Comments For the last sixteen years I have had the absolute pleasure of being the resident bugle player for the Toorak Heroes Club. I have performed at ANZAC and Remembrance Day services and at funerals and other functions for the club, the RSL and other organisations around Melbourne. While live performances can sometimes goes awry, Sunday November 6, 2011 will likely be the strangest experience I will ever have.
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After twelve days, three orders (see my epically failed pre-order and the subsequent phone order), over three hours on the phone and various sales representatives giving me all kinds of conflicting information, I’m finally back on deck with a working phone. But this morning’s experiences again exposed a flailing system.
After the epic fail my Telstra iPhone 4S pre-order became, the gods of consumer pain have smiled their smug little smiles in my direction again. After two hours on the phone with Telstra on Tuesday my pre-order was flagged to be cancelled (because they couldn’t find it) and a new order was submitted. I was told the phone would arrived today (Friday). With a gut feeling that something may not be hunky-dory, I called the sales team this afternoon to be told there are now no iPhones in stock and they can’t tell me when there will be.
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BookBook is an iPhone 4/4S case and wallet rolled into one gorgeous vintage leather-bound book. The attention to detail in its design is exceptional, from its card pouches to the camera tab. You can find pics, videos and all the specs on the twelve south website.
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Melbourne’s iconic State Theatre (the building under the big pointy thing) and Hamer Hall have come alive with brilliant 3D projections for the Melbourne Festival. With a stirring soundtrack and a little comedy to boot, this short light show will enthral people of all ages.
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After a horror spell with Vodafone this year that saw me needing to reboot my iPhone 4 regularly just to stay connected, I bit the bullet, argued the point, cancelled my contract and signed up a Telstra account. The fight was epic – if it had been held in the eighteenth century there would have been swords and horses and men in shiny metal suits. But the timing nearly worked perfectly. It was a mere two weeks before the launch of the iPhone 4S. But the Telstra pre-order process, unbelievably, has been a complete and utter shambles.
Personal No Comments Each month I organise a dinner for my closest friends with the intention to get everyone together regularly and to try something new. And a great way to do this is to have an Alphabet Dinner – each meal’s cuisine using the next letter in the alphabet, within reason.
Tech No Comments As a software developer I need to be conscious of making assuptions. How will users react to default behaviours? Have I considered all possibilities when automating processes? And speaking of automating things, there are only so many smarts you can build…
Personal No Comments A few months ago I headed to Mirboo North in southeast Victoria for a weekend away with eight good mates at the Grand Ridge Brewery. And having visited a number of excellent breweries, including our home-away-from-home – Red Hill Brewery, we arrived with high expectations. Boy were we in for a shock!
