My bank account was compromised the other day – more importantly, the EFTPOS card used to access my EveryDay Account at Bendigo Bank was compromised.
Bendigo Bank, to their credit, locked my accounts immediately they realised that the account, along with about 100 others, had been compromised. Yeah, my fault that they couldn’t contact me on [...]
(with apologies to Cory Doctorow)
With Senator Conroy’s latest minor, VERY minor, victory in getting the Labor Party to adopt the policy for mandatory internet filtering he has, I believe, signed his own (and possibly his party’s) political death warrant.
In case you haven’t read much about it, and I guess most right-thinking Australians have tried not [...]
Caveat: The “legitimacy” of this may or may not be questionable – many claim that by merely attempting it I have broken Apple’s EULA for Snow Leopard, etc. etc. etc. Personally, I doubt it – I paid RETAIL for my copy of Snow Leopard, and it’s up to me what I do with it.
Until [...]
This is one of THE best examples I have ever seen;
VIDEOGIOCO by Donato Sansone from Enrico Ascoli – Sound Design on Vimeo.
Interesting, if LOOOOOOONG, Youtube video about Google Wave. WTF, 90 minutes ? Well, I guess when you own Youtube the 10 minute rule doesn’t apply..:-)
You can catch me on Wave as jon.biddell@googlewave.com (great, another bloody email address to remember !)
A retailer in Sydney is already selling discounted copies of Windows 7. Yes, they appear to be genuine.
Click the thumbnails for the full info, or visit shoppingsquare.com.au.
Read how one enterprising individual convinced DELL to do the right thing and refund his money for licences that he rejected.
Gwa / Get a refund for your Microsoft Windows license.
Interesting to note that he was claiming the RETAIL cost back, when DELL pay an OEM price for it.
Anyone else with successful refund stories ?
My friends over at iFixIT weren’s satisfied with just buying aa new 27″ iMac, they stripped it down !!
But it got better…:-)
Virgin Mobile puts a wireless hotspot in your pocket – Gadgets on the Go – Digital Life – Sydney Morning Herald Blogs.
The whole idea of a “mobile wifi hotspot” has been around for quite some time in the USA – if only we had a decent network offering it at a decent price instead of [...]