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Word-whore. I write 'em. I talk 'em. Information, politics, media, and the cybers. I drink. I use bad words. All publication is a political act. All communication is propaganda. All art is pornography. All business is personal. All hail Eris! Vive les poissons rouges sauvages!

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Month: January 2007

Posted on 30 January 200731 July 2007

Australian Business Register fixed!

The Australian Business Register, who last week had problems getting my name right, emailed me yesterday:

Your legal name now shows correctly in the Australian Business Register.

And it does.

They didn’t say why it was possible so quickly when it was impossible only seven days earlier. Maybe their programmers burnt the candle at both ends across the long weekend.

Or maybe someone just RTFM.

Posted on 29 January 200731 July 2007

Spamming Google Maps — or not?

On Australia Day, Google Maps did a flyover of Sydney to take low-level photos. A small ISP decided to create an advertisement in the photos. So is that spam? Or as one commenter pointed out, were they just acting on Google’s invitation to “get involved”?

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Posted on 27 January 2007

I am resigned to the fact…

… that I will never be Australian of the Year.

Posted on 26 January 200716 January 2011

Apple iPhone parodies

Thanks to the ever-observant people at Signal vs Noise, I can draw your attention to Worth1000.com‘s competition for fake designs for non-existent Apple products.

Photo-mockup of Apple iToilet

I can’t be the only one with infantile humour, because there’s lots of toilet-themed entries — though for my money this is the best.

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Posted on 22 January 200731 July 2007

One name: why so hard?

It’s more than 25 years since I’ve had one name, Stilgherrian. That’s plenty of time to get with the program. So from now on I’ll name the businesses and organisations who can’t get it right — starting with the Australian Business Register.

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Posted on 19 January 200731 July 2007

Govt can’t spell “Australia”

The most commonly mis-spelt word on Australian government websites is: Australia. (Reported by an attendee of the Accessibility talk at yesterday’s Web Standards Group meeting in Canberra.)

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