V/Line will always blame something other than themselves for their trains constantly running late. Well, I think I have found the main reason – they think they are sending trains to one location, when they are actually meant to be going to another location. This “updated track works notification” was just released, indicating track works [...]
We opponents of the government’s mandatory internet filtering plan are often accused of being “small, but well organised groups of nerds” seeking to make some noise. Yes, we want to make some noise – however, opposition to this filter runs far and wide – well outside of the boundaries of the so-called “nerdesphere”. Dozens of [...]
As a long suffering Geelong V/Line commuter, the progression of the Regional Rail Link project is very welcome. It will improve reliability and the predictability of the timetable, and therefore travel times into and out of Melbourne. Unfortunately, as is often the case with major infrastructure projects, residential properties need to make way for some [...]
Quite rightly, there is a strong movement within animal rights groups for the for the banning of jumps racing. While many people are employed in this industry, the apparent difference between the number of serious injuries suffered by horses in jumps racing – (particularly involving the horse being put down) – as opposed to the [...]
Stephen Conroy boldly announced today – (as presented in this Delimiter article) – that information technology was not part of his portfolio. “Well, IT is not formally part of my portfolio – I’m broadband communications and the digital economy and Kim Carr looks after IT.” Interesting – and actually, he may be technically right. However, [...]
This post is specifically directed towards our new Prime Minister, Julia Gillard – who has recently joined Twitter, in line with previous Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd. Julia – (if I can call you that) – you are probably aware of the uproar in the community regarding your communications minister and his farcical mandatory internet filtering [...]
Stephen Conroy’s recent “spams and scams coming through the portal” gaffe has created quite some traction for the campaign against his idiotic plans for the internet. I was about to post a comment on a news article this morning, and discovered that The Age newspaper has come up with a clever plan to protect at [...]
Hot on the heels of Senator Conroy’s “Cavalcade of Frivolous Attacks on the Internet”, and his stinging “greatest single breach of privacy in history” attack on Google, his friends over in the Health Department are doing some information profiling of their own. Australians Get Health ID Number Tomorrow Here’s the quote that interests me: Earlier [...]
In the current mandatory internet filtering debate, there is something that irritates me almost as much as the policy itself. It is the words coming from the Shadow Communications Minister, Tony Smith. What words? Exactly – he is almost completely silent. While Stephen Conroy runs rampant across Australia calling everyone who cares to challenge him [...]
Hopefully today, we on the anti-internet censorship side of the mandatory ISP filtering debate have learnt an extremely important lesson. There is no doubt that all of us wish to see the back of Senator Stephen Conroy, certainly from the communications portfolio at the very least. There has been much discussion since the rise of [...]
