Heartbroken! The tuna-tossing competition at Port Lincoln’s annual Tunarama festival will start using fake tuna next year. Still, gotta love an event with a name like Tunarama!
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Driver needed for OLPC Cowra road trip!
11 October 2008 in Internet, Media, Stilgherrian Live
’Pong and I need a driver this Monday lunchtime 13 October through to the night of Tuesday 14 for our “road trip” to Cowra to film the rollout of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) XO computers (pictured) in their first Australian trial.
This is a paid gig, although you probably won’t make enough to retire just [...] -
Episode 30 online!
09 October 2008 in Notes, Stilgherrian Live
I’ll do a proper post some time soon, but here’s a quick pointer to tonight’s episode of Stilgherrian Live, uploaded for your viewing pleasure.
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Stilgherrian Live, The Blue Edition
09 October 2008 in Stilgherrian Live
It’s less than three hours until tonight’s edition of Stilgherrian Live (9.30pm Thursdays Sydney time), so we’d better get some nominations together for “Cnut of the Week”.
It’s the same rules as usual. We’re after people (or abstract forces of nature, or organisations or whatever) who’ve been futilely trying to hold back the tide of change.
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Links for 02 October 2008 through 06 October 2008
09 October 2008 in Daily Links
Stilgherrian’s links for 02 October 2008 through 06 October 2008, covered in peanut butter and cat fur:
Tragedy mars Leena’s run for governor | Bangkok Post: I wouldn’t have made as much fun of this story if I’d had the full details. While Bangkok governor candidate Leena Jangjanya was safely rescued from a canal durign a [...]
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How Dell fixed my monitor order
09 October 2008 in Business, Internet, Marketing
Last week I posted a long, angry piece describing how Dell screwed up an important order. Well, important to me. Pissily tiny to them. Within hours I received a phone call from Winston Robins, Dell’s Purchase Experience Manager for Australia and New Zealand.
What immediately impressed me is that he’d actually read what I’d posted, here [...]
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