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- May 2013 (19)
- 24: When Jupiter is rising and the news is coming out of Uranus (0)
- 23: The unthinking bigot (0)
- 23: Who owns the multinational tax problem? (1)
- 22: Social Justice Warriors of the Marriage Equality Debate (0)
- 21: Who’s afraid of the big bad homos? (0)
- 20: How much respect do we deserve? (0)
- 19: My Selfish Rules (0)
- 16: Back in my day! (0)
- 13: Why Combet is right (and Labor is wrong) (0)
- 12: Star Trek: Into Blandness (0)
- 12: What’s your why? (0)
- 10: The avalanche has started (0)
- 08: Rewarding stupidity (0)
- 07: Janie’s got a gun (0)
- 06: What’s wrong with popular Mac Twitter clients? (0)
- 05: You’re offended? Good (0)
- 03: Dear Conservatives and Capitalists (1)
- 02: Fauxpologies (1)
- 01: Getting to grips with the NBN (7)
- April 2013 (15)
- 30: Full disclosure (0)
- 28: Stop the Boasts (6)
- 28: The lost girl (2)
- 26: Who owns grief? (0)
- 25: The Great Experiment: Month Two (0)
- 25: Conversational spam (0)
- 24: Calling a spade (0)
- 23: What’s wrong with Telstra? (0)
- 22: Smoke gets in your eyes (0)
- 21: Unbiased reporting as a reader function (0)
- 20: Some jokes aren’t funny (0)
- 16: The zero parent (0)
- 09: Speaking ill of the dead (1)
- 07: All inclusive, or bland? (0)
- 05: What defines the bear community? (1)
- March 2013 (8)
- 23: The Great Experiment: Month One (0)
- 23: Lessons from a waitress (0)
- 21: The hypocritic oath (0)
- 20: Stupidicus (0)
- 19: Fear and self loathing in Vegas (0)
- 09: The memories of stone (0)
- 08: A dingo got my outrage (0)
- 02: The great experiment: Week One (0)
- February 2013 (6)
- 27: They’re making an ass of me (0)
- 25: Tech schmeck (0)
- 23: The great experiment: Day 1 (5)
- 23: I love drama queens (0)
- 17: Mountains o’ Things (0)
- 15: How to run a training course (0)
- January 2013 (15)
- 31: Did you want racial profiling with that? (0)
- 28: Is there room for one more? (1)
- 26: Dear Bob (0)
- 25: Has Android killed the feature phone? (2)
- 19: Twinkle twinkle, little star (0)
- 17: The hate challenge (2)
- 15: I’m with Stupid (0)
- 14: DIS-CRIM-IN-ATE! DIS-CRIM-IN-ATE! (0)
- 09: The fancy troll (0)
- 07: Same-sex marriage: a threat to society? (1)
- 05: From the horse’s mouth (3)
- 05: Kissing in the carpark (0)
- 03: Social engineering – blame the banks (0)
- 03: Avoiding prickly situations (0)
- 01: A year of living Melbourne-ly (0)
- December 2012 (7)
- 30: iPad mini review (1)
- 28: The inferior race (3)
- 23: Echoes of the past (0)
- 17: Kicking the can down the road (0)
- 10: Lessons from home (0)
- 06: The dangers of cultism (1)
- 05: iTunes 11 Quirks (2)
- November 2012 (8)
- 28: No dissension in the ranks! (0)
- 26: Socialism and GBLTI rights (1)
- 25: Melbourne marriage equality – what a disappointment (26)
- 24: Why I mix the professional and the personal (0)
- 22: Why documentation matters (0)
- 19: The scream (0)
- 10: Where are all the outraged catholics? (1)
- 02: Don’t preach appeasement at me (0)
- October 2012 (7)
- 31: The challenges of home archives (0)
- 25: Unnecessary evil (1)
- 16: The 3 x F’s of Business/IT Alignment (0)
- 13: Michelle Grattan’s “Misogyny war has no winner” (1)
- 10: Sophie’s Choice (0)
- 10: The (right-)leaning tower of Fairfax (0)
- 06: The problem with notifications (0)
- September 2012 (3)
- 26: Happy birthday to me (0)
- 12: I don't want to be gay (2)
- 11: R they OK? (0)
- August 2012 (5)
- 29: HP … If I can't find you, I can't buy from you (6)
- 24: Trinity (0)
- 23: The Fast and the Furious (1)
- 06: LNP notions of "Freedom of speech" are laughable, not laudable (0)
- 05: Religious intolerance (0)
- July 2012 (3)
- 20: Keeping up appearances (0)
- 13: The unforsaken road (0)
- 11: Where a 7" iPad will be a good fit (0)
- June 2012 (7)
- 23: On the shoulders of giants (0)
- 19: I hope my face isn't hurting your boot (4)
- 18: Hibearnate! (0)
- 14: The man in the ironic mask (2)
- 13: The dirty word (0)
- 10: 3 Seconds (0)
- 01: One year (0)
- May 2012 (5)
- 26: Undue process (0)
- 21: You know that moment… (0)
- 14: I will not be silenced (0)
- 08: You can't make a beard without a bear (0)
- 06: Baillieu MPs prove the need for a GLBTIQ advisory council (0)
- April 2012 (2)
- 25: Hidden pain (0)
- 10: Privacy is dead, long live privacy (2)
- March 2012 (5)
- 28: Reflections of image (1)
- 23: No cross on the ballot box (0)
- 18: Running on empty (0)
- 18: The hate truck (0)
- 11: When did I become an optimist? (0)
- February 2012 (12)
- 29: Showing restraint (1)
- 26: The politics of conformity (0)
- 24: No, anything but that! (0)
- 21: Studying sleep (0)
- 20: The naked app (0)
- 12: The irony of the 'katmobile' (0)
- 11: My personal journey to Apple (0)
- 07: No pardon for Alan Turing (4)
- 05: Grumpy guts (0)
- 03: Get out of my way (0)
- 02: A matter of perspective (2)
- 01: When the panic sets in (0)
- January 2012 (16)
- 30: It's just a flag … get over it (2)
- 28: On analysts consistently selling down Apple (0)
- 25: Translating Margaret Court's Opinion Piece in the Herald Sun (3)
- 25: Finder Bug with Folders (1)
- 24: Appearances are deceiving (0)
- 21: The simple fats (0)
- 19: My atheist life (0)
- 19: How's that search going for you, LaCie? (0)
- 17: What they say / what I hear (0)
- 15: Mute means mute (0)
- 11: Return to sender (0)
- 10: Ratzinger vs Me (0)
- 09: Rampant WTFery (0)
- 07: When there's no lesser of two evils (0)
- 05: The changing face of computers on screen (63)
- 01: Hit and run (1)
- December 2011 (20)
- 31: It's not a resolution! (0)
- 30: Don't feed the trolls (2)
- 29: Making sense of gay rights (0)
- 28: 5,506 days (1)
- 26: What if companies were treated like people? (1)
- 24: Dear Barnaby: Screw you (1)
- 23: Barnaby Joyce, at it again (0)
- 22: The pink dragon (0)
- 20: Death was too good for him (0)
- 19: A man walks out of a psychologist’s office (1)
- 18: What is this thing called god? (0)
- 18: The petty crumbs of self-absolution (0)
- 17: Tidings of comfort and joy (1)
- 10: Methinks he doth protest too much (1)
- 09: Mainstream media – the real question (0)
- 07: On female preachers standing against same-sex marriage (0)
- 07: Special vs Equal Rights (0)
- 06: We're doomed, thanks to NASA! (0)
- 04: Hollow victories or baby steps? (0)
- 03: Marriage vs Gay Marriage (0)
- November 2011 (12)
- 27: 15 years (2)
- 18: The sixth sense (0)
- 17: A fair go for everyone! (0)
- 16: But it's traditional (0)
- 15: What's a choice? (0)
- 15: Rejecting hate (2)
- 13: Same-sex marriage: countering the arguments (6)
- 12: Must See Sci-Fi Movies (2)
- 11: What is this, a welfare state? (3)
- 10: Liberty and equality (0)
- 08: Bugbear – iOS vs Mac OS X (1)
- 05: The triple edged sword of introspection (1)
- October 2011 (17)
- 30: Screw you, Qantas (0)
- 29: Advice to my younger self: don't change a thing (0)
- 27: I know what humanity really needs to be saved from (0)
- 26: Happy Gay Anniversary (0)
- 22: Monsters from the Id (1)
- 21: High Anxiety (2)
- 15: Will the vulcan klingon? (4)
- 14: Where RIM went wrong (0)
- 12: The Powerless Ones (0)
- 08: Malfunnythinkin (2)
- 06: RIP Steve Jobs (1)
- 05: It's the end of the fracking world! (0)
- 03: This shouldn't be an issue (3)
- 03: Fight or flight (1)
- 02: Turning and turning and turning (0)
- 01: What makes me angry (4)
- 01: You have to take the rough with the smooth (2)
- September 2011 (20)
- 29: How often do you come out? (3)
- 28: Follow the yellow brick road… (0)
- 27: Treasuring the simple things (0)
- 25: Translating the latest memo from Yahoo! management (0)
- 22: Why capital punishment is inherently evil (1)
- 21: Step right up, step right up, place your bets (3)
- 18: Take a crazy ride with me (4)
- 17: What amazing candidates! (1)
- 16: What does a half-melted wax work drag queen look like? (1)
- 16: 7 signs you may have obsessive compulsive disorder (0)
- 16: Trusting talk (2)
- 15: Am I OK? (1)
- 14: 82 reasons to maintain the rage (1)
- 14: Bob Katter wants his gay desserts (0)
- 11: The problem with omniscience (2)
- 11: The hour of the wolf and social networking (0)
- 07: The resenting of sleep (6)
- 04: I'm not into "quotation marks" (2)
- 03: America, that's sick (3)
- 03: 3 months in Melbourne (0)
- August 2011 (19)
- 29: The smell of Sydney (3)
- 28: How hurricanes should be named… (1)
- 27: Well yes, that's my plan, anyway (0)
- 26: Songs of Science Fiction (0)
- 24: The Real Gay Marriage Conspiracy (0)
- 24: Dear Mark Coulton, MP for the Parkes Federal Electorate (0)
- 24: Bob Katter – Cowardly Bully (0)
- 21: Sometimes, I was the dog (4)
- 19: I'm a technologist, fanboy (2)
- 18: Climate change: Let Gen-Y take the lead (2)
- 16: Opponents to same sex marriage still coming across as batshit crazy (5)
- 15: What Die Hard 4.0 Taught Me (0)
- 12: Bigoted 'logic' (4)
- 11: My Microsoft Word Infographic (0)
- 10: Don't give stupid reasons (0)
- 09: Apple to DNS – And the horse you rode in on, buddy (1)
- 08: flOptus and the pico cell (0)
- 05: Fred Nile: Now seemingly as crazy as a shit sandwich (0)
- 03: When does it end? (0)
- July 2011 (10)
- 31: Clearing the cruft (0)
- 28: Labor Right says "Screw representation" (0)
- 25: 7 things that suck about Lion (0)
- 24: Amy and Norway (0)
- 21: Lion, Spaces, Transparency and Glitching (5)
- 19: Saying nice things (2)
- 17: The slippery slope (2)
- 14: Hello News Corp my old friend (0)
- 11: Lipton, giving dumb people a bad name (0)
- 01: A month in Melbourne (1)
- June 2011 (15)
- 29: Specious arguments against gay marriage (2)
- 29: Free the geeks (0)
- 26: Play with my mind (and I'll play with yours) (0)
- 25: 7 reasons why we still need gay venues (2)
- 21: Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition (0)
- 19: More bullshit about making Telcos improve (0)
- 19: Mr Australasia Bear 2011 (2)
- 18: Disillusioned Labor (0)
- 17: The multiple effects of belonging (3)
- 15: Fairfax: Click whores or Windows Fanboys? (1)
- 15: Open source vs Professional (1)
- 10: Let the right one in? (2)
- 09: Cattle vs Asylum Seekers (0)
- 03: Remember that time when… (0)
- 02: And the winner is… (0)
- May 2011 (10)
- 23: 10 tips to keeping your data safe (2)
- 20: eBook Stores: Please tell me they'll get better (0)
- 16: Memoirs of a gay geek (3)
- 16: International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia (0)
- 11: Goodbye, Alice in Wonderland (0)
- 08: Would you trust this man? (0)
- 06: Clearly I've been a very bad boy (0)
- 05: A fitting punishment (0)
- 03: Product Review – Apple Magic Trackpad (0)
- 02: Reflections on the killing of Bin Laden (0)
- April 2011 (9)
- 27: You have a hole in your mind (0)
- 18: General Offence vs Personal Offence (2)
- 14: Mandatory voting (0)
- 13: Music and Me (0)
- 11: 7 weeks / 50 days (0)
- 05: The freedom rule (0)
- 04: "You're evil, and must be stopped!" (1)
- 03: So you've got a degree; big whoop (0)
- 02: The egregious incapacity of Telstra (0)
- March 2011 (8)
- 30: What's in a word? (0)
- 26: No Tony, you and your cronies will be wrong (0)
- 18: Apparently we're hijacking the civil rights movement (0)
- 18: "Don't vote Greens, say Catholic bishops" – Hmmm. (0)
- 15: Lessons from Babylon 5 (0)
- 13: 10 truths about hotels and motels (1)
- 08: Apple won. Get with the programme. (6)
- 01: The end of the IT department … my arse (3)
- February 2011 (14)
- 27: Glenn Beck needs an Emmy (0)
- 22: Sage Advice from The Mummy (0)
- 20: Should your employer be able to access your Facebook account? (0)
- 18: Daedalus takes flight (0)
- 17: A cell tower in every street! (1)
- 15: The immoral discrimination litmus test (3)
- 13: No Pope Ratzinger, you're wrong (0)
- 13: Public opinion on same-sex marriage (2)
- 12: Expel this! (1)
- 12: Consumption without end must end (0)
- 11: So powerful it distorts time itself (1)
- 07: What's so scary about polygamy? (3)
- 07: Distraction free writing is very distracting (0)
- 04: Fully sync, mate (0)
- January 2011 (14)
- 31: Proof I'm not an Apple Fanboi (1)
- 28: The descent into narcissism (2)
- 27: Walking in circles (2)
- 26: I still don't feel proud on Australia day (1)
- 21: 8 months with the iPad (1)
- 20: "You're part of a league of morons" (2)
- 15: Chaos theory (1)
- 12: Look where you've been to know where you're going (0)
- 11: The egregious culpability of violent rhetoric (0)
- 08: The deconstruction of falling stars (3)
- 07: The vicious wedge (0)
- 04: …yourself, do you? (0)
- 03: Smart phones, and work/life balance (0)
- 01: Resolutions for 2011 (0)
- December 2010 (4)
- 22: The years are getting shorter / going faster (0)
- 15: My 2010 sound track (0)
- 13: Cargo cults aren't dead, they just evolved (0)
- 01: Wikileaks is a natural consequence (1)
- November 2010 (5)
- 29: Frank Herbert was wrong (0)
- 24: 13 traits of a great consultant (2)
- 22: A letter to Deborah O'Neill regarding same sex marriage (1)
- 10: Are blades worth it? (4)
- 08: Show me the coffee (0)
- October 2010 (4)
- 30: Time to shake things up a bit (3)
- 15: Icarus, session #3 (0)
- 08: prl_launch (0)
- 05: My top 30 (0)
- September 2010 (9)
- 28: Analysing conservative reactions to losing elections (0)
- 28: Music from the Universe (0)
- 19: Things I learn from search results leading to my blog (0)
- 15: Parallels Desktop for Mac v6.wow (1)
- 11: Top 5 Regrets of the Dying (0)
- 10: iTunes Annoyance (0)
- 09: Ink, Part 2 (0)
- 04: Movie Haikus (0)
- 02: Politics and Independents (0)
- August 2010 (7)
- 31: Who am I? (2)
- 24: Annoying inconsistencies in interface design (22)
- 21: An internet democracy (1)
- 13: Ink (2)
- 08: Illogical arguments (0)
- 04: An iPhone 4 review in 10 points (0)
- 01: Psst! Want to bet on the fall of democracy? (0)
- July 2010 (12)
- 25: Worthwhile iPad games (0)
- 23: Good food is about trusting the chef… (1)
- 20: Workchoices Dead, Buried and Cremated? (0)
- 18: When does an information request become discriminatory? (7)
- 17: Hanlon's Razor (2)
- 15: iPhone 4 Delayed in Australia? (0)
- 11: The boganisation of the asylum seeker discussion (3)
- 10: Best part of Doctor Who – ever (1)
- 09: Shelving is not canning (0)
- 09: Gillard on Internet Censorship – Same old tripe (0)
- 05: Reflections on Macintosh: All function over form (5)
- 01: Why Julia won't get my vote (0)
- June 2010 (7)
- 27: Great thinking (0)
- 24: Julia for PM? (0)
- 17: Finance calculators: obfuscated UIs or just sneaky? (0)
- 10: Am I the only geek who doesn't like Star Wars? (0)
- 08: What's wrong about homophobia? (1)
- 06: Why I rail against the extreme (religious) right (2)
- 05: One week with the iPad (1)
- May 2010 (12)
- 31: The walled garden vs the overrun garden (2)
- 30: Life is not about the journey… (0)
- 27: Dear Vodafone (6)
- 25: What century is it, Excel? (1)
- 24: SME Server / e-smith and DNS Caching (0)
- 23: No sympathy for the devil (6)
- 22: The vast chasm (0)
- 21: Malawi justice not fit for animals (0)
- 20: Windows popups (1)
- 16: Moving (0)
- 13: Zero schmero (0)
- 12: The ten million dollar question (0)
- April 2010 (10)
- 24: Do the tea baggers engage in tea bagging? (0)
- 20: How things change (0)
- 18: Suddenly a lot of life makes sense (1)
- 15: Ring Ring (0)
- 13: Picketing funerals is a moral outrage (0)
- 10: i* vs My * (2)
- 08: An argument against internet censorship (6)
- 06: My Twitter epiphany (0)
- 04: Things the average anti-iPad review will get wrong (1)
- 01: April Fool! (1)
- March 2010 (12)
- 31: Increased attention to the Robin Hood Tax (0)
- 29: Colours (0)
- 28: Google vs China, the Propaganda (0)
- 27: The Kransky Sisters are Coming to Town (0)
- 25: Oh it's about as fabulis as a punch in the crotch from an angry monkey (0)
- 24: A fabulis sham? (1)
- 23: Goodbye, Western Digital (0)
- 21: I'm tired of all the hate (2)
- 20: Another New Zealand, Coming Right Up (0)
- 17: No gold star for you, LG (1)
- 04: Optimise! Optimise! Optimise! (0)
- 02: The new computing paradigm: SaaA (3)
- February 2010 (10)
- 18: Things about airports… (0)
- 16: Oh Vodafone, you're so generic (0)
- 15: Nice one, Optus (2)
- 15: Don't let the door hit you on the way out (0)
- 11: Robin Hood Tax (0)
- 07: Sorry that argument doesn't wash with me (0)
- 07: Guest blog over at Parallels Consumer Tech (0)
- 04: Much Drobo goodness (0)
- 03: Storage, the sequel (0)
- 01: All this iPad sounds like feminine hygiene talk belittles the conversation (2)
- January 2010 (33)
- 30: The storage dilemma (7)
- 29: How to report the news (0)
- 29: Accounting for negative reaction to the iPad (0)
- 28: Your screen capture does not belong in Microsoft Word (0)
- 27: 5 Mac Apps that are indispensable to me (0)
- 27: The funny thing about the Apple Tablet… (0)
- 26: Poison dipped in chocolate in still poison (1)
- 26: Why I'm not proud to be an Australian today (2)
- 25: Tetsuya's (0)
- 24: No surprise there: Australian telcos overcharge for SMS (0)
- 22: The fundamental principle of beautiful user interface design (0)
- 20: Ah yeah, you're a paragon of journalistic integrity, PC World (0)
- 20: I don't want to smoke my chocolate! (0)
- 17: Resonance – Ambient sound for concentration and/or relaxation (0)
- 17: A sick statistic (0)
- 16: Book Review: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (0)
- 15: Macintosh Folklore (0)
- 15: 10 classic misspellings and their corrections (0)
- 14: Earth to Pat Robertson: Grow a brain (1)
- 14: You're wrong Emirates, my name IS valid (0)
- 13: A critical analysis of the Alterans (4)
- 13: Mud baths (0)
- 12: Some listening (0)
- 12: How data visualisation changes everything (0)
- 11: Why all Android phones are still toy phones (3)
- 11: Mac OS X vs Windows – the ultimate description (0)
- 11: Value of Parallels Tools in Linux Guests (0)
- 11: Why I like getting older… (0)
- 10: Can I have my $650 in gift vouchers instead? (0)
- 09: Ah yes, yet more conservative hypocrisy (0)
- 09: The Cicadas are noisy this year (0)
- 09: Rest your brain, work every day (0)
- 08: Out of phase, out of mind (0)