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Great Firewall of Australia

Please sir, may I have my internets back?

Duncan Riley copped quite a bit of flak over this post on TechCrunch. Some say he's gone over the top.

Over the top? Forming a militia and overrunning Parliament House would be over the top. Duncan is just being..., well, Duncan.

You'll never convince the puritans or the ...

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Making Safari better

Safaribug, anyone?

Duncan Riley asks what can be done to make Safari better.

The obvious answer is to grab the source for WebKit and start hacking, but that's almost certainly beyond the reach of most mere mortals.

I use both Safari and Firefox every day via an odd arrangement whereby day ...

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Sir James Dyson on failure

Making wrongs right

Fastcompany has a fascinating interview with Sir James Dyson here and here.

Hey says:

We're taught to do things the right way. But if you want to discover something that other people haven't, you need to do things the wrong way. Initiate a failure by doing something that ...

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ACCC vs. Google

Do no evil? Bah!

Meg weighs in on the ACCC's action against Trading Post and Google here.

The ACCC charges that Google doesn't "expressly distinguish advertisements from organic search results", a charge dismissed as spurious by many pundits including Ash Nallawalla.

After reading Meg's post, I'm not so certain the ...

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YUI blog on downshifting

Downshift? I'm not even in 3rd!

It's the small stuff (at attention to detail) that makes a master: more smart things from YUIB.

Link: Downshift

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Architecting downtime

Suddenly, all was black.

Bang!

What should have been a routine memory replacement was not going well. It's 4am, and the engineers are staring at POST wondering how they hell they got bumped for the night shift, and how the hell they're going to get the machine up and running.

Crash!

Down ...

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Obligatory iPhone post

Why oh why?

Every blog in the universe has an iPhone post but this one is mine...

...Why-oh-why-oh why would anyone buy a phone without 3G?

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Erlang example error

Is it a Mac thing?

First bits

As I said in a previous post, I'm learning Erlang via Joe Armstrong's book: Programming Erlang. This post is probably only meaningful if you caught the same error - if not, and you read it to the end, I tip my hat to you!

The error

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Top 10 digital entrepreneurs in Australia

I know lists are stupid, but...

Yeah, yeah. Lists are stupid and invariably miss lots of great people, but I like this one because it's instructive as to who the media considers a top entrepreneur.

For my money I'd add Greg Roebuck of carsales.com.au Ltd. - carsales.com.au has made BRW's ...

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Django Advocacy

Breaking down doors.

Django Advocacy

Having engaged in a spot of workplace Django advocacy over the last few months I figured I would summarise a few of the key points here.

First a note on choosing a framework.

Choosing a framework is much like choosing any other software in that you look for ...

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Thanks for dropping in.

This is the personal website of Cam MacRae. Any opinions expressed here are my entirely own, and have jack to do with my employer.

It's the product of a little elbow grease, the news.ycombinator noprocrast feature, and a healthy dose of Django.

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