Sigh, so that happened

So two things happened today.

The first was a near riot that necessitated the evacuation of the Prime Minister and the Opposition leader from an awards ceremony meant to highlight the work of emergency workers.

The second was WIN Television blowing it again.

If you haven't caught up on the events today then I heres a brief timeline I've put together from various sources:

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On Bogans and Racism

So, last night I got into one of those twitter arguments that I tend to (I have a bad case of "Someones wrong on the Internet").

In this case it was triggered by the following tweet:

Redglitterx: how do you know if youre an elitist, smug, over-priviledged racist? you make bogan jokes

Talks to catchup on

Okay so I missed #lca2012 this year. However because the LCA team is awesome (continuing the grand tradition of awesome LCA teams), the talks have started appearing on the linuxconfau2012 youtube channel.

Squeeee.

Now I have a number of talks to watch on the googletv thing:

Tux in Space: High altitude ballooning - Joel Stanley,Mark Jessop

New Purser Explores The World Episode is out

Man it's been a little while since I last posted here, need to fix that.

First up though, there is a new episode of Purser Explores The World out:

Ice Hockey in the land of Sun and Surf

Australia is famous for its sporting prowess. Everyone knows that when it comes to sports such as Cricket, Rugby (of either variety) and Swimming, Australia is up there with the best in the world.

However what people may not be aware of is that Australia, the land of Sun and Surf is home to a thriving and competitive Ice Hockey community.

Who's going to lead the IT revolution in the Illawarra?

The Illawarra Mercury ran an article on the weekend entitled "IT tipped to boom in Illawarra", the basic premise being that as manufacturing winds down, Information Technology and Communications are tagged to grow and fill the gap.

Excellent, I personally think that Wollongong and the Illawarra makes a perfect spot to setup an IT shop if you want to be close to sydney without the costs of being based in Sydney.

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A Letter to the Editor

I've just submitted the following to the Illawarra Mercury over this article

"I am writing to you regarding your article entitled “Gay marriage battle in Throsby” in which we are told that state MP Noreen Hay has led the charge in trying to muzzle federal representative Stephen Jones over the topic of same sex marriages.

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Testing, Testing

Just a test of the Drupal 7 version of this blog.

New episode of Purser Explores The World Is Up

Okay folks the next episode of Purser Explores The World is up over at angrybeanie.com

In this episode we take the spirit of DIY and see how it's being applied to disaster management.

An open letter to the "Creatives"

To whom it may concern,

I have money. It is good money, in fact, being australian money, it is both pretty and hard wearing money. I would like to give you that money in exchange for the music you sell, the films and video productions you make and the books you write.

But I can't.

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Logitech CEO Slams GoogleTV - Or does he?

Hrmm, interesting.

The media has been all over the Logitech "slamming GoogleTV" angle from the recent phone conference. However if you read the actual Call Transcript:

http://seekingalpha.com/article/306966-logitech-ceo-hosts-analyst-amp-investor-day-conference-call-transcript

You'll find that what the Logitech CEO was railing against was the Logitech implementation and the content blocking by the Cable and FTA channels in the US.

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