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Boy I’m getting into an aggravated and militant mood. Yesterday it was Telstra and their unwillingness to assist a customer and today it’s the Japanese and those infernal whalers. I’m all about the grrr at the moment. So what’s got me riled this time?

Well as it turns out, at least according to the Sea Shepherd captain when interviewed on The Project and in this The Age article, the Japanese government is handing over $28.5 million dollars to support the Japanese whaling fleet. This money had been slated to be spent on the recovery efforts post Japan’s March natural disasters. Read the rest of this entry →

Boy, when you jump out of the fry-pan you sure as heck can land in the dog poo. And that, my dear friends, is where you find us at the moment. In the dog poo. Confused? Me too. Let’s take a walk and have a chat about it. From my side of things. Biased and slightly apologetic.

It all began some time ago with a house move. A move on to a hill. Our then mobile phone provider, we’ll call them 4 to maintain their anonymity, appeared to offer little or no coverage at our suburban home. Undaunted we fought them in the trenches and open fields until the spectre of the telecommunications ombudsman smote them. When the smoke had cleared we found that we’d been released to continue our mobile journey across to our savior. The bringer of coverage. The charger of premium prices. But that was okay with us, for coverage is what we desired. End dramatic monologue. Read the rest of this entry →

Call me cynical if you will, but by my reckoning the new fandango iPhone 4S from that mob at Apple strikes me as a fearful and cynical beastie. Why?

Here’s the thing. It’s safe. But disappointingly so. Perhaps it was the waiting. The months of conjecture. The “holding out”.

But at the end of the day it’s no Samsung Galaxy S2 which upped the ante. Bumped up screen real estate. Got skinny. Changed the game.

Where the iPhone 4 appeared to smash you in the face with amazing graphics, a beautiful camera, speed, design to drool over – instead the latest iteration is just that. An iteration. The same, just bumped up a notch.

Let us know what you think.

iOS 5 on the other hand…

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