Submitted by James Purser on Wed, 11/04/2012 - 23:58
I know it's usually bad form to read the comments on an article, but I recommend you read these if you want to see the brogrammer in the wild.
If you don't want to dig through the dross, the article itself is about Etsy (that craft site that allows you to sell you crafty items) offering $5000 grants to women who might want to be involved in the Hacker School programme but can't afford to.
Submitted by James Purser on Wed, 11/04/2012 - 23:12
Sigh,
Yet another article running the line that because we're all moving to wireless devices (such as smartphones, tablets and laptops) the NBN is now about as useful as clay tablets.
Look, let me use our home as an example.
We have a number of different devices that use wireless:
1 x iPad 1
1 x Xoom
1 x Nexus S (smartphone)
1 x Huwei Android Phone (smartphone)
1 x iPod 3
Submitted by James Purser on Wed, 04/04/2012 - 11:48
So the Coalition government in New South Wales passed their "It's not really about Clover at all" legislation through the upper house last night. This legislation will make it verbotten for State Members of Parliament to hold both the office of MP and the office of Local Government Councillor at the same time.
Submitted by James Purser on Mon, 02/04/2012 - 12:31
So I've finally acquired an android tablet to with my Android phone. I went down to my local ebgames yesterday and bought myself a Motorola Xoom.
Of course the first thing I did was to root the thing and put ice cream sandwich on it. It's running smoothly so far and I'll be looking into what else I can do with it.
Submitted by James Purser on Thu, 29/03/2012 - 21:38
You know something?
Being my wife isn't an easy job. You have to put up with a lot.
Submitted by James Purser on Tue, 27/03/2012 - 11:58
You know, there are times when I'm thiiiss close to really considering the Australian Greens as the party that could fill the void on the centre-left left by the Labor party, but then I see stuff like the 3rd Annual Green Oration and I go back to wondering whether we'll ever fill that niche again.
The Oration itself is an annual event setup by Bob Brown with the following focus:
Submitted by James Purser on Tue, 27/03/2012 - 00:10
Look, I understand that for a lot of people, Wikileaks and Julian Assange are very important. Wikileaks has opened up a number of different cans of worms, and is an expression of openness taken to the extreme (all communications should be open, etc, etc). Assange himself is the personification of the wikileaks ideals.
However.
Submitted by James Purser on Mon, 26/03/2012 - 12:25
Just as 3D printing is changing the way we look at manufacturing, it's changing the way medicine approaches different problems.
In this episode I talk to Scott Summit from Bespoke Innovations about the work his company does with artificial limbs and I have a look at some of the other ways that 3D Printing is changing the way the medical world turns.
Audio:
MP3
Submitted by James Purser on Tue, 20/03/2012 - 10:24
Well, you can't say that Australian politics is dull.
Submitted by James Purser on Tue, 13/03/2012 - 22:45
So yesterday I had a bit of whinge about the fact that I couldn't update my Logitech Revue because for some bizarre reason, they had geo locked the update.
Well last night I figured rather than wait around until Logitech or Google or whoever was responsible got to fixing the issue, I would utilise one of the many vpn services which allows me to pretend I'm actually a USanian for the purposes of accessing various web sites.
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