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Dell Zino HD headed for Australia .. ?

The ‘Bloody Hell Dell’ Run-around I had a simple question for a local Dell staffer - “when will the Zino HD be released in Australia?”.  You’d think that calling a local 1800 or local exchange number might actually get you a local , wouldn’t you? However, after several calls during which [I swear] I was transferred between [...]

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HP MediaSmart Servers coming to Australia .. kinda

LX197 & EX490 for Australia - no EX495 Just got off the phone with HP Australia (Melbourne and Sydney) … HP will release LX197 & EX490 Windows Home Server based machines on the 19th October 2009 (less than two weeks).  That’s right, no EX495 (Grrrr! HP).  This is contrary to reports on the OzziCom Blog which [...]

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20 Places Not to Eat

CAUTION: Harsh Restaurant Signage Follows ;-o Yes yes, it’s the online equivalent of a fart joke - immature, boyish and likely to stunt my intellectual development (not to mention skew the readership of opinionroad), but if for no other reason than to liberate it from the giddy roundabout of endless ‘fwd:fffwd:re:’ emails, here are the Top [...]

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Spotted #001 - random photographic observations

In this [first of a series] I cover some random photographic observations made during the forgoing week. This week's includes hot salami love, death marketing success for Michael Jackson, Chinese quality control (or lack thereof) and deceptive advertising.

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Website Monitoring Services

Following the migration of a number of my websites from physical servers to virtualised hosting, many of the sites experienced worrying outages. I subsequently went in search of a decent web server monitoring service that could shed some light on the actual downtime. The following is a review of the top 3 of those services, along with screenshots and recommendations.

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Plane Crashes and Shark Attacks Still Unlikely

Despite the tragic loss of 228 lives on an Air France Airbus A330 plane with 228 people on board disappeared over the Atlantic on Monday on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, air travel is still the safest mode of transport. Like shark attacks, aviation accidents make ‘good’ news.  This is a shame for [...]

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HD Resolution Smackdown: BluRay vs AppleTV vs DVD

HD, SD, 720p, 1080p & Upscaling - wheat from chaff I once penned an email to my friend (Sarah) extolling my perspective on the relative quality a range media and TV hardware resolutions.  The data was far from scientific, but it’s based on a reasonable exposure to a range of media and output formats.  The following [...]

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Google Reader iPhone App: problems

The Google Reader iPhone App (or any reader application for that matter) and Desktop Readers are the types of interfaces [and if not the model for those] that will eventually the replace age-old practise of scanning broadsheet newspapers, the writing for which is already on the wall.  This makes these types of UIs crucial in [...]

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GMail - too much space is never enough

What a full GMail inbox looks like I always wondered what GMail would do if, and whatsmore if I even could, reach/ed the capacity of my GMail account.  Well, as if to prove one of the corollary of Parkinson’s Law, today I discovered the limit of GMail’s patience with by hammering it (as an ‘email mule’) [...]

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Trust Me

I would (if I knew what you were trying to say) Having been a fan of Thomas Cavanagh in Ed, I so very much want to like this show, but I am just not sure how it wants me to feel.  Eric McCormack plays Mason, the newly appointed Creative Director of the Mink Group, after the [...]

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