Alex Kidman

I certainly do. Hang on.. what am I doing on the moon? Wouldn’t a lack of oxygen (and for that matter, pressure) be a rather more pressing problem?

Lucky I’m not on the moon, then, eh?

It has been a little while inbetween updates (well, at least by my clock), although that shouldn’t stop the relentless (some would say heartless) Kidman self-promotional machine. After all, if I don’t promote me — who will?*

First up, some quick online news at PC Authority yesterday:

TiVo hard drive lands in Australia: “Western Digital 1TB drive will cost $299 as TiVo gears up for more than 100 new Movie On Demand titles.”

I’m also, as is often the case, featured heavily in the latest issue of Netguide Magazine. Within its pages, you’ll find my reviews of LCD Monitors for every budget, as well as standalone reviews of the Toshiba A300, iLife 09, iWork 09, Altec Lansing Expressionist Classic Speakers, HTC Dream, Logitech Harmony 1100i, Linksys Media Hub, VHS To DVD 3.0, Corsair Flash Survivor 32GB, Warhammer 40K: Dawn Of War II, Empire: Total War, 50 Cent: Blood On The Sand and Streetfighter IV, as well as a tutorial guide to setting up Skype 4.0 and the broadband table as well.

Work too hard? Don’t know the meaning of the word.

*Note: This is not a plea for PR representation. I get the feeling that I’d have a rather interesting, noisy, and probably quite short PR career were I ever to try…

Ahem. Anyway, PC Authority has a news story of mine up right now. Go and read it. There’s a good kitteh.

Skype launches “unlimited” calling plans: “As long as you understand “unlimited” to mean “limited”, of course. We take a look at how Skype’s prices stack up.”

(one for the fans there. They know who they are…)

CNET.com.au has another of my pieces up… well, except that’s it’s not exactly mine. It’s a rewrite/update of a guide that the eminently talented Siddharth Raja wrote some time back. Basically, all the shiny new stuff is mine, and the older shiny stuff is his, edited by yours truly. On with the show!

Skype Starter Kit: “There’s plenty of VoIP players in the local market — names like Engin, MyNetFone and Freshtel come to mind — but without a doubt the big fish in the VoIP pond is Skype. With a claimed installed user base of around 220 million users — and those all within the last four years — it’s a big fish that’s hard to ignore.”

*Boomshanka.