Archive for December, 2004

Australian First – Spam reporttage!

Thursday, December 2nd, 2004

News article: Via ITNews.com.au If an initial two month trial — until late January or early February — proved successful, the offering would be made available to other ISPs, Tsakaros said. Allan Horsley, acting chairman at the ACA [Australian Communications Authority], said the SpamMatters software would forward spam to the ACA’s forensics database system for [...]

Breaking News: Sheep shortages in New Zealand

Thursday, December 2nd, 2004

No, that’s not a joke. There’s actually more sheep in Australia, than there are in New Zealand. Even though, they are the land of the sheep. Poor kiwis, they lost the test (cricket) series, and now they’re losing their sheeps too! There are 39 million sheeps in New Zeland, and there are 4.06 million humans [...]

a brief intermission…

Thursday, December 2nd, 2004

due to a lack of good quality content, it has been decided a temporary, brief intermissi0n may well be the order of the day. thusly, it has been decided a brief dose of randomness may be required, so in the current phase of podcasts, audioblogs and whatnot, i present to you the following audio clip. [...]

MSN blogging service launched!

Thursday, December 2nd, 2004

This is half available, half not available at current… It’s called “MSN Spaces“. And the official launch is tonight (which means, although you may be able to sign up, you won’t be able to blog or anything yet). By tonight, I mean, night time over in Redmond. Additional links… 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (MS [...]