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I'm like a maniac at the end of the day, I'm like a doggie barking at your door..

iTunes is throwing some seriously odd song choices at me today. I’m beginning to doubt that whole “Genius” thing. Then again, if the above lyric isn’t genius, it’s insanity, and they’re tolerably close for most intents and purposes. As if to counterpoint yesterday’s discussion of the whole media ecosystem print/online thing, I’ve got a couple […]

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The answers, my friend, are in the back of the book…

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(as sung to the tune of “Blowin’ In The Wind”) Ah, when I was but a spritely* seventeen year old, that was the height of comedy. And a big hello to any members of 3UM who might be reading this. Which, as the odds would have it, would probably be none of you. And the

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There's a wet and miserable looking Kookaburra outside…

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No, really, there is. Well, there is if you’re looking out my dining room window, anyway. Your windows may vary. Speaking of variance, what’s the least varied thing I could be writing about today? If you answered “Modem emulation on a VIC 20 RS-232 Port“, then you couldn’t be more wrong, and I’d suggest that

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Son, as your lawyer, I declare y'all are in a 12-piece bucket o' trouble.

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Why does Monday morning keep rolling around? Couldn’t it just, for once, keep itself to itself? I guess if the LHC does go awry, it might well do, were that not largely poppycock. Oh well. Recent illnesses have put me behind the self-promotion ball, something that needs correction right away. If not sooner. Except that,

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Let the floodgates open!

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Apple’s NDA on the iPhone 3G expired this morning at 12:01am, local Sydney time, and predictably, there’s a flood of reviews online right now. Like, for example, mine, live now at GadgetGuy.com.au: Apple iPhone 3G: “Apple’s 3G iPhone isn’t quite as revolutionary as the hype might have you believe. Indeed, an awful lot of what

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It's so hard to keep my head above water…

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Back to the song lyrics for subject lines, I see. Bonus points for the first reader to tell me the artist and track name in this case. No clues. Meanwhile, at an APCMag.com not very far from here: Microsoft to re-release “every OS” to market: “Ambitious scheme to further extend Windows OS lifespan. Every Windows

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