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03.20.08

A New Phase in Life Life, opinion, technology | (4)
Part of my new roll...distribution monitoring! So another new phase in my life has come about with the start of March. Last year I ended up moving to Newcastle for six months as part of the graduate engineering program, this year it's into the city and taking up a permanent position at EnergyAustralia. Read more after the break... Continue Reading...
11.30.07

Opinion: Ticketing, Scalping and the Music Industry opinion, technology | (9)
Scalping is killing the joy of the big music festivals and music events in Australia (Photo: Live Earth Crowd Â© Dan Boud) As the Southern Hemisphere once again rolls into summer, the season of the festival descends upon Australia. The familiar, and the unfamiliar, bands and music acts line up to tour down under and be part of great festivals such as the Big Day Out, Homebake, the new years eve festivals of The Falls Festival, the Pyramid Festival and many more. Add to this the year round traffic in big name acts that venture to the arse end of the ...
10.23.07

Opinion: Blackle - is it all a hoax? opinion, technology | (7)
Blackle claims to reduce power consumption in comparison with Google It was first in July that Blackle came to my attention with an enquiry from a mate who works at a large accounting/consulting company into the claims of reduced power consumption resulting from using its services over google. Could this be true? The energy saving I mean. For those worried with energy consumption and all its downsides, when your screen is white, being it an empty word page, or the Google page, your computer consumes 74 watts, and when its black it consumes only 59 watts. Mark Ontkush wrote an article about the energy ...
09.11.07

ASP.NET - Not a Real Choice for Web Development Code, opinion, technology | (1)
Recently I've spent a large amount of time working on a project for my employer. The group I was collaborating with were already using, with good reasons, the Microsoft Visual Studio tool kit for their application development process, predominantly with the C# language set. They had thus also decided to use this for their first foray into web applications, of which their first application had been deployed and been in use for a few months prior to my arrival with the section. When I first touched the application I began to scribble down suggestions for improvement. What I was to ...
10.24.06

Internet Explorer 7 for Monkeys opinion, technology | (32)
Right, so this monkey decided "hey, i'll whack this on mum's laptop for browser testing" (she uses firefox, you know "mum, that fox looking thing, that's the internet, not the blue e thing"). I jump onto the IE7 site (an easy enough thing, since it tops the IE7 search in google) and hit the "let's go" button. Get a "small" installer. OR what I thought was a small installer. Turns out its just the installation manager. 14.8MB for an installation manager, very much much "W-T-F" coming through my head. I mean, how big is the complete firefox package again (for those ...

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