I was looking at CelticBear’s blog, and saw a link to MSNBC, who has a piece by Keith Olbermann with comments about President Bush and his recent speech about Iraq. He likens Bush to the boy who cried wolf, noting that this time around, who will believe him that the same thing will work (sending another 20K troops to Iraq). I highly recommend watching the streaming video, as it conveys the commentators opinions much better than the written piece.
CBS have posted a video with a closeup look at the new Apple iPhone. Worth watching if you like tech gadgets.
Its a pity that we have to wait till 2008 for it to get to Australia (Asia) but hopefully that wait is so we can get a 3G enabled phone.
Apple have released their Apple TV
My question, is why does Australia get CONSISTENTLY marked up prices from Apple? The Apple TV is USD$299, and AUD$449. At the current exchange rate of 1 USD to 1.28683 AUD this item costs AUD$385 when purchased in the US. That is over $60 more expensive for the pleasure of purchasing from Australia!
How do they justify this? The exchange rates do not fluctuate that much.
Just watched this awesome video on YouTube. It’s a stop motion of two guys sorting their problems out mano e mano.
Me and my bro tried this once when I first got a webcam, nothing like this though! If I find mine, I will post them on YouTube as well
I have been messing around with feedburner. It seems to offer a really good service for free, with some premium options if you choose to enable them. I have cut my feed over to it, as I get stats of who/when is subscribed. They also allow for funky embeded items (like the Digg and Email this links you see on each post).
Have you ever clicked on an XML/RSS feed in your browser and seen only xml code come up?
I wonder…. what will the new year bring?
Well besides tomorrow being the same as every other day, will I finish reading all those books I started? Will I finish learning postgreSQL, php, css, xhtml, xml, shell scripting, do my w2k3 exams, finish reading my science book, my coding book, my DB book, my novel, reading the bible?
Will I do more geocaching, spend more time with kids, do more exercise, lose weight, be a better husband/father/brother/son, find my inner self, understand the universe, etc.
So I decided to make sure the blog was valid XHTML (version 1.0 transitional) and CSS. It meant turning off a plugin or two, and also removing the badly mangled flickr badge which uses inline CSS and some funky but not valid scripting.
The Circle Six blog has some good info on wordpress theme design on a mac:
“Having spit out several WordPress custom sites in the last few days, I thought I’d detail my current workflow on my Macintosh OSX platform for posterity … A brief summary to begin with … This post will confine itself to the tools required to create a custom theme for WordPress without hacking the core code. However, all of the tools that are mentioned are powerful enough to handle such tasks and I don’t use any additional tools to do my core hacking.
Someone in my family signed up with Telstra NextG wireless broadband today. This is a High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) wireless network.
Now this person is not an IT person. They use the internet for email, chat, web, etc., and due to the fact that they are working and traveling where there are no other decent wireless broadband carriers in Australia (i.e. outside a Capital City), then this was their only real option.