Some people seem to think that newspapers delight in publishing bad news. As an editor I admit that bad news, tragedy and conflict often help to sell papers. That says something about human beings, I think, rather than newspapers. From a personal perspective I prefer to focus on the positive but unless you're colorblind or [...]
Citizenship test
There has been a lot of discussion in Australia about plans to introduce a citizenship test for immigrants. This satirical document is a beauty. I found it at FWDitOn.com, a web site for people to submit funny emails. I love the question: Which Australian Prime Minister held the world record for drinking a yardie full [...]
GoPC virtual operating system
I discovered an intriguing new technology gadget tonight thanks to the Google ads on my own site. It’s called GoPC and it’s a virtual operating system that provides a free service for accessing programs and data storage online. It uses Suse Linux and provides a limited number of programs with the free service. These include [...]
Windows Live
I’m taking a look at Windows Live at the moment. It’s a suite of services including email, online gallery, blog, news and messenger. It has a neat clean interface and the Windows Live Mail is a great improvement on Hotmail. Google and Yahoo offer similar packages and I’m interested to see where it all leads. [...]
Unusual events
I was just writing an email to a former colleague when it occurred to me that I should post some of it here as well … Kalgoorlie has some iconic attractions including brothels and two-up. Tomorrow’s front page features a dispute between a brothel madam and the local council over car parking! Last week we [...]
