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Why do I have to live in Australia? I live in a place where we are the furthest from the internet hubs of America and Europe, and to make matters worse, we have fairly slow broadband internet connections, with undersized usage limits.
We currently pay $45AUD (or $36USD) per month for our internet connection, which I [...]

I’ve see Sydney from both the air, and the ground, and it is just one of the most unpleasant cities to live in.
I know I haven’t really experienced other cities fully, but what I have seen of other cities is that they are just so much more exciting than Sydney is.
There are only two attractions [...]

Someone is finally standing up against the iPhone and iPod craze going around at the moment.
Jon Lech Johansen is finally taking on Apple and their DRM encryption for songs bought from the iTunes store. He is otherwise known as DVD Jon for being the first person to crack DVD encryption, he did it at just [...]

I stumbled across and online comic the other day. Its called ‘Real Life‘.
I’ve arrived a somewhat 10 years late from the start. So I’m currently working through it from day 01 of the comic back on November 15th, 1999.
I’ll subscribe to it in my feed reader once I’ve caught up to where they currently are. [...]

Why is it that some people I know can’t seem to tell me when they have a problem with something I have done or said?

Is it because I intimidate them?
Is it because I am unapproachable?
Is it because they know that I am right?
Is it because they will feel stupid?

I honestly don’t know what it [...]

I starting to get sick of seeing these articles appearing on newspaper sites when someone new comes up with either a conspiracy theory about the moon landing, or that there is new evidence to support a particular theory.
I wasn’t around in 1969 to view the actual broadcast footage, but I have seen it since, as [...]