tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47398346301792741342012-01-31T08:47:31.537+09:00Karl Robyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09474963646030662373noreply@blogger.comBlogger181100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739834630179274134.post-61749400836119062562011-05-23T18:34:00.002+09:002011-05-26T22:53:38.973+09:00

Well, what a week it's been. Our family had it's first proper holiday in almost 5 years, and it was brilliant. We left Perth just before the rains started, and managed to avoid the rain until we got to The Gold Coast. Ironic. Brisbane saved the best to last, and as we waited for our flight home, we witnessed a big cold front speed over the airport, and settle into some decent rain; decent

Karlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739834630179274134.post-70200828704723739472011-04-26T21:35:00.001+09:002011-04-26T21:35:14.175+09:00

It's been quite some time since I last wrote here. I decided recently though that with our impending holiday, I should start again. That way I'm in the habit for writing while we are away. It's also probably no coincidence that I start urging to write after 5 days break from work. I feel quite intellectually drained after a day at work, so writing is usually one of the last things I feel like

Karlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739834630179274134.post-75959026943568992982011-02-01T21:18:00.003+09:002011-02-01T21:18:52.078+09:00

http://www.logitechcashback.com.au/ Well this is bullshit, and a scam. I have a mind to complain to fair trade. The $300,000 Logitech allocated to this cashback offer for the month of February has been allocated on the FIRST DAY. The maths simply does not add up to a fair offer, and Logitech has either unwittingly been exploited by scammers, ineptly made the rules/system exploitable through

Karlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739834630179274134.post-70743723451233633572009-01-15T17:11:00.004+09:002009-01-15T17:20:12.272+09:00

The Sun has an article about a big NASA press conference today, where it will be revealed that large clouds of methane gas have been confirmed to exist on Mars, usually in the same areas as clouds of water vapour. This is significant, because the two main causes of such amounts of methane are volcanoes (Mars doesn't have any active volcanoes) and biological waste.How awesome is this news? What

Karlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739834630179274134.post-73296181880981946512009-01-15T15:06:00.004+09:002009-01-15T15:20:10.854+09:00

This article on The Register describes problems with the mandatory internet content filtering being employed in the UK.The service being used is filtering archive.org which is a free online archive of "the internet" for historical reference. This comes only weeks after the whole wikipedia.org service was also blocked due to a historically significant image (this article refers to the ban, which

Karlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739834630179274134.post-79919306061353215392009-01-01T12:34:00.001+09:002009-01-01T15:34:06.729+09:00

Great Firewall of Australia: What’s not mentioned makes it even more scary The article above by Duncan Riley on The Inquisitr sums up much of the problems surrounding the Australian Government’s “filter”. I’d like to add my two cents worth, with a few analogies mixed in. Firstly, is this about censorship, or child porn?  It’s either one or the other, it can’t be about both. The Minister needs

Karlnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739834630179274134.post-59532950893930278932008-10-04T22:40:00.001+09:002008-10-04T22:40:06.451+09:00

Whilst the first day with it’s rainy afternoon provided some brilliant displays of riding skill, it was not the most fun to sit and watch. Today though, the weather is much improved, as you can see from the below photos. I saw a number of riders breaking the long standing lap record today, and the best was set by Casey Stoner, which was a crowd pleasing moment. The final crowd pleasing

Karlnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739834630179274134.post-71306639865442295522008-10-03T17:14:00.001+09:002008-10-03T17:21:17.663+09:00

I hired a car today and drove from Melbourne to Phillip Island for the MotoGP. It’s more like the Mudo GP though, as it has not stopped pouring rain all afternoon. I am in the campgrounds this year, and boy is it a mud hole! You can see the mud on the track in the foreground of this picture, and to the right in the background is the campgrounds. I am in the far right, and as you can see, it is

Karlnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739834630179274134.post-30874608164464214552008-07-10T07:00:00.001+09:002008-07-10T22:19:33.451+09:00

Check out http://www.greatapeproject.org This is a pretty important project at the moment, and I urge anybody reading this to "sign" their declaration, the gist of which is: "We demand the extension of the community of equals to include all great apes: human beings, chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orang-utans. The community of equals is the moral community within

Karlnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739834630179274134.post-76633678348082592152008-07-07T17:54:00.001+09:002008-07-07T17:54:36.487+09:00

Brrrrrrr! Originally uploaded by lee512I can't remember the last time it was so cold in Perth that ice formed on the car. Amazing!

Karlnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739834630179274134.post-68954179696747962692008-06-29T23:59:00.001+09:002008-06-29T23:59:25.850+09:00

There's a worrisome article on Slashdot at the moment, that links to several news sources carrying reports about the state of the ice in the North Pole. It seems that the current rate of melting will more than likely leave the North Pole without ice in September this year.The Northwest Passage is currently free of ice for the first time known to man.How is it that there is still a debate about

Karlnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739834630179274134.post-44644697338706514552008-06-08T21:50:00.003+09:002008-06-08T22:10:45.254+09:00

Atheism is starting to get a bit of a swell behind it lately. I wouldn't go so far as to say a ground swell just yet, but maybe soon.Richard Dawkin's God Delusion really went a long way to turning religion into a debate of intelligence - over 1.5 million copies sold is a pretty good impression of the reality of atheism.The next big leap in this bid of reality to drown out fallacy is in my belief

Karlnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739834630179274134.post-5707384984364348242008-06-05T00:26:00.002+09:002008-06-05T00:32:07.385+09:00

Yesterday I got my first bit of recorded message spam. My phone rang, I answered it, and a recorded voice at the other end started speaking this advertising guff. Wierd. I'm not quite sure where my phone number has ended up for it to be dialled by one of these things. How annoying. I'll have to have a good look at my mobile bill when it comes to see if they ahve somehow reverse charged it to me

Karlnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739834630179274134.post-35911562687819463242008-05-25T19:25:00.003+09:002008-06-02T12:13:47.415+09:00

This article describes the shipping evidence that Apple has been stockpiling a product in the US, despite Apple's usual style of denying all product launches ahead of release dates. I think this counts as the worst kept Apple secret yet.

Karlnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739834630179274134.post-87936945273534627232008-05-24T21:11:00.004+09:002011-04-27T17:12:42.950+09:00

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Karlnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739834630179274134.post-76292633690797666462008-05-24T15:53:00.005+09:002008-05-24T16:13:50.868+09:00

There is a great article here on Jason Calacanis by the Sydney Morning Herald.Jason was one of the keynote speakers at CeBIT (the expo I was in Sydney for). He's a very interesting person, whose blog can be found here.

Karlnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739834630179274134.post-36148632007955071502008-05-24T12:54:00.003+09:002008-05-24T12:58:08.813+09:00

There is an interesting link here, claiming that Telstra's iphone will have a speed of over 40Mbps by year's end. That is faster than most broadband connections, and will be the fastest mobile internet in the world. Fantastic if it's true!

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