pushing the sky

MP3s, Taping TV shows etc., is finally actually legal in Australia – Ruddock: “Now that we’ve caught up to the 90s, we can have a serious look at this new fangled ‘interweb’ thing. I hear it’s popular.”

To the pretty lady I see on the train every morning, who works two floors above me – Love what you did with the hair over the weekend. From: a random.

The Accidental Expert: Cabbie gets interviewed as an expert on digital music (via) Update: Turns out the confusion was a little different than first reported. “Hi sir, welcome to the BBC – where your job interview is live to the nation!” It’d mean a more open selection process, that’s for sure.

There’s a few people you can never replace in your life, but right at the top of that list is your mum. Without whom you wouldn’t actually be around, so right off the bat there’s something you can’t argue against. Some will argue that having one “special” day set aside for mothers demeans the whole [...]

My graduation is on the 25th, at 4:00. I’ll be getting my academic dress-thingy before, around 2ish. Ok people, let’s not screw it up this time. I’m giving you nearly 2 weeks of warning now. I’d like to meet up with as many peeps as I can, and at uni wouldn’t be a bad place [...]

Blog directly from Word 2007 – hey, that’s pretty cool. Microsoft is on the ball with this one, I think.

I’ve got a list of things as long as my arm to do and only so much time to do it in; when you’re at work, it’s hard to find the time to call up the motor registry and the car insurance company and the post office and the health insurance company. Why are these [...]

Engadget reports from Sony’s PlayStation infosession at E3 – They’ve reverted to the current controller body, but added motion detection like Nintendo. Microsoft have now committed to non-motion detection controller. Curiouser and Curiouser. – Games look good. Hell, games look fan-bloody-tastic. – Worldwide simultaneous launch! Region free! Backward compatible as always! :glee: – US$499 – [...]

Honesty exists in the moment. Afterwards, whoever writes the most convincing story determines ‘history’. The word even has ‘story’ in it.

Crash is a movie that can’t accurately be described. There is no start-middle-end like most movies. It’s an ensemble peice, and while this usually conjures up images of movies like Love Actually, where there’s a connection, however tenuous, between all the characters, in Crash there isn’t. Or, well, there is, but it’s a lot more [...]