Alright alright

So it seems like tis the season to be redesigning your site. I’ll get on to it, I’ve got a good one in mind (finally). Just someone tell me, what is it with all the darker designs this time around?

I needn’t even mention

There’s no point me even pointing out how crap the weather is now; even the locals are whinging.

(have a cold/sore throat type thing so not exactly in the mood to do anything, really.)

Aboriginals never stood a chance

To quote:

“In conclusion, what is at play is a radical restructuring of the recognition of indigenous rights and interests in land. This is the beginnings of a revolution in Australian law and a breaking of the consensus established through the Woodward land inquiries, the Whitlam/Fraser land rights legislation, the Mabo and Wik decisions and the Native Title Act. It cannot be under-estimated.”

John Howard never gives up on anything.

A Litany of iPhone shortcomings

I know, I know, the iPhone is all over the web this week. But here’s something to bust the bubble – interesting to consider that Apple missed these oh-so-common features when doing user-eval (I can only imagine they did – surely Jobs wasn’t the only evaluator, right?). Indeed, it seems like the iPhone was going to be the ever-hyped Video Touchscreen iPod (6G) with Phone, rather than primarily a phone.

Ed: updated for 2008/iPhone 3G.

Ed Note 2: All of the above shortcomings/complaints have been taken care of with the iPhone 3GS. See, Apple can get it right… eventually. Now it’s just a costly mofo.