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• ABC chair Newman out of line on climate change

  11 March 2010 in Ecology, Media, Politics

  ABC chair Maurice Newman, who is not a climate scientist or even any kind of scientist at all, is pleased to hear more non-scientists talking about climate science. I reckon that apart from being a tool he’s way out of line.
  He clearly has no clue about how the ABC, as the national broadcaster, should be [...]

• Patch Monday: WAN optimisation and the Facebook patent

  11 March 2010 in Business, Internet

  The perceived speed of your internet connection isn’t just about raw bandwidth. The National Broadband Network won’t automatically speed up everything.
  In this week’s Patch Monday podcast, Steve Dixon from Riverbed Technology explains how inefficiencies in TCP/IP network protocols mean that latency can be as much of a problem as bandwidth. “WAN optimisation”, which is something [...]

• No Edict last night either

  11 March 2010 in Notes, The 9pm Edict

  There wasn’t an episode of The 9pm Edict last night either, due to continuing illness. Bother.

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• No Edict last night, sorry

  09 March 2010 in Notes, The 9pm Edict

  There was no episode of The 9pm Edict last night due to illness. Sorry ’bout that. I’ll post more when I’m better.

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• The 9pm Edict #4

  05 March 2010 in Arts, Music, Sydney, The 9pm Edict

  Here, ladies and gentlemen, is episode 4 of The 9pm Edict. Finally.
  You can listen to this episode below. But if you want them all, subscribe to the podcast feed, or even subscribe automatically in iTunes.
  If you’d like to comment on this episode, please add your comment below, or Skype to stilgherrian or phone Sydney +61 [...]