Category Archives: Rants

Back From Watching Cory Doctorow Talk In Sydney

Posted on April 20, 2006 by James McParlane

I as I posted previously, Went to observe Cory Doctorow‘s talk tonight. It was much as I expected. He is real. I did not touch him – so you can’t be too sure. Xeni could have been hiding behind the drapes with … Continue reading →

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Google, Please Fix Your Search Page In Firefox

Posted on April 19, 2006 by James McParlane

Dear Google, Your Firefox start page ( http://www.google.com.au/firefox?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official ) may or may not have a CSS error. I know I’m being picky, the page functions fine, but you see every time I open Firefox (1.5.0.2) and test some JavaScript code, I open the Firefox … Continue reading →

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IPTV In Australia Could Be Dead Before It Even Starts

Posted on April 5, 2006 by James McParlane

Interesting post from Rachel Dixon’s Blog According to a recently released discussion paper on media reform, the Minister for Communications is considering introducing licenses for IPTV in Australia, to bring Internet video into line with broadcast video. … .. . Intriguingly, the … Continue reading →

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Cold Calling On An Instant Messenger

Posted on March 30, 2006 by James McParlane

If you are going to add someone out of the blue to your contact list in instant messenger, and you have the good luck that they don’t reject you out of hand, don’t then ignore a request of “Hi, can … Continue reading →

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Old MetaWrap Demo

Posted on January 29, 2006 by James McParlane

Found an an early draft of some concept materials for the original MetaWrap Project “Fish” (1998-2001) that could turn any existing HTML website into an XML data-source by the application of the MetaWrap pattern language. This single XML file recursively defined … Continue reading →

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Web3.0

Posted on January 18, 2006 by James McParlane

Fantastic article about the hype and truth of Web2.0 by Jeffrey Zeldman. “We pause but a moment to consider two AJAX-related headaches. The first afflicts people who make websites. Wireframing AJAX is a bitch. The best our agency has come … Continue reading →

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No Mozilla Protocol Plug-in Example Or Documentation

Posted on January 18, 2006 by James McParlane

http://www.mail-archive.com/mozilla-netlib@mozilla.org/msg02102.html So looks like I’m giving up on Mozilla development of a protocol plugin in C++ – the platform is simply just not mature enough to develop against. I have wasted 4 hours of my life only to find that someone has … Continue reading →

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Web2.0 – Its All About The API – If You Want To Be Bought By Google/Yahoo/Microsoft

Posted on January 11, 2006 by James McParlane

So Michael Air looks over my shoulder when I’m looking at egoRank and asks a fairly obvious question, “But how are they going to make any money?”. My stock response came out “Someone will buy them.”. Then it hit me. … Continue reading →

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Sydney, Unrest, Muslims, Kebab

Posted on January 10, 2006 by James McParlane

Tonight I met a very tall man. I am not short – but he towered over me. He was very well educated and very well dressed. His girlfriend was a gorgeous young woman. Every year at Massive’s Annual Xmas party … Continue reading →

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We Lost The War. Welcome To The World Of Tomorrow

Posted on January 8, 2006 by James McParlane

Between Xmas and New Year, Rop Gronggrijp (NL) and Frank Riegel (DE) held two impressive but surpringly depressive speeches at the 22nd Chaos Computer Club conference in Berlin. Here is Frank’s contribution.

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