Child of the Machine

See Gillard backs internet filter

Thanks for wasting our money Gillard and Conroy… 705,000 results for a search “hack internet filter”… Why spend billions waving the Child Pornography flag when any police officer will tell you they’re not traded through websites but through technologies the Conroy’s filter can’t filter… Not to mention it’s easy to circumvent, and completely legal too according to Conroy from articles I’ve read.

Would you wast money on building a barbed-wire fence on 1 side of your property? Is it for looks? Is it suppose to gain votes? Maybe it would if you didn’t advertise you couldn’t fully fence the yard so people can walk around it. Or perhaps Conroy and Gillard take us for idiots? “Oh my children are safe now we have a filter, praise the lord, amen…”, “Luckily kids theses days aren’t smart enough to get around that…” (sarcasm)

Surely everyone else has noticed Conroy is looking after too conflicting projects too.. maybe he hasn’t yet? I mean the National Broadband Network (faster internet) and the Internet Filter (slower internet).. maybe after spending billions on both projects we might just come out the same as we started? Just a little be less money in the wallet to spend on more important things.

The Australian Interactive Media Industry Association (AIMIA) have created a visual record of the popularity of internet sites to Australians from 2001-2009.

Openning the site you’ll find the flash application with play through the past 9 years in a matter a seconds in which you can watch the rise of fall of sites over time, and also see their popularity all at once…

History of the Australian Web

They’ve also prepared a report of the top 100 sites with their statistics for each of these years as a PDF you can download.

So the day arrives Firefox 3 has finally been released… I can’t say it was in my diary but it must have been in some others, apparently their FTP servers were down in the hours leading up to the release… Suspect some geeks (and I use the word affectionately) were trying to get an early copy!

With this release Mozilla has taken an interesting marketing approach – trying to break (or set?) a guniess world record with the most downloads. Anyway ‘spread the word’ as they say.. check out Firefox 3.0 to play your small part in a world record.

3 Million and counting on its first day isn’t bad!

Like I assume millions of other people, I’ve been unable to make a payment with PayPal for over 8 hours now. The following error message appear on the PayPal website when trying to make a payment with a credit card…

The PayPal site is currently experiencing technical difficulties with our credit card processor. We are working to solve this problem as quickly as possible. If you would like to use your credit card, please return to the PayPal website later to complete your transaction. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Quite a concern considering eBay is now making it mandatory for all auctions to include PayPal as a means of payment. And as of July this goes one step further with PayPal being the only option to pay an eBay seller.