The Pencil Guy » news corporation http://hourann.com Hourann’s illogical blog Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:46:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 A random list for Sunday http://hourann.com/blog/2006/08/27/little-random-list http://hourann.com/blog/2006/08/27/little-random-list#comments Sun, 27 Aug 2006 06:01:27 +0000 azza-bazoo http://hourann.com/blog/2006/08/27/just-a-little-random-list
  • Is Rupert Murdoch demanding all his papers give extra publicity to his new cash cow? Today’s STM features a big, gushing article about MySpace. Then again, the article regularly quotes Tama, so it’s not all bad …
    Update 12.50am: Dr T says “I think the piece was pretty balanced”. Maybe I’m just a cynic, but I sensed a subtext of “you should join MySpace NOW!” in the first few paragraphs ;-)
  • Weird Al Yankovic, LOL! If you haven’t already, go download his song. Now.
  • The local Slashdot Meetup last Thursday was heaps cool, ye local Linux nerds (and non-Linux nerds) should all come! What most amused me was that except for the two public servants, everyone there had job offers to pass on from their employers …
  • I guess I shouldn’t be surprised so little media attention has gone to Terrence Tao, the former Adelaide kid and now UCLA professor who won the Fields Medal. A few sources overseas are chattering about the Russian dude who turned it down, but that’s just because he so neatly fits the ‘eccentric maths professor’ stereotype.
  • And finally, if (like me) you had trouble accessing this blog yesterday, blame your ISP’s upstream providers. Something got ugly between Global Crossing, AsiaNetCom, AT&T, and their link at the Infomart in Dallas, making it impossible for Optus or iiNet customers (among others) to access anything co-hosted at The Planet all day. (Complex? of course not!)
    Thing is, The Planet are huge — so the fault caught this blog, Kitta, Ask A Ninja, and quite a few others. Most other providers (particularly MCI) were able to route around the problem, leaving Feedeye unaffected even though it lives in the same building.
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