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Brumby Government Drinking Game

nospam@example.com (Robert Amos) — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 02:10:10 +1100

Lets start a new drinking game!

Every time the Brumby government announces a new major road project, take a shot. If you're still alive come Christmas, you win

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Channel 7's Olympic Coverage

nospam@example.com (Robert Amos) — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 16:17:25 +1000

Well I must say, this has far and away been the worst opening ceremony in the history of the Olympics for viewers from Australia, and this has nothing at all to do with the Chinese.

I'm sure the opening ceremony was spectacular, but we really didn't see any of it!

Ads cut in everywhere and hid the fireworks and broke any form of continuity there was, and it came back from the ads already into the next portion of the show.

How exactly was anyone meant to enjoy watching that? I know several people are writing letters to complain, how long until a petition appears on the net to get Seven banned from doing the coverage for London?

Thanks anyway Seven for ruining a night that had been hyped for months, I'm sure the Chinese will be equally appalled as to how you've portrayed the start of their games.

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New Beginnings

nospam@example.com (Robert Amos) — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:27:00 +1100

Hi everyone!

You may notice a new theme to this blog - I'm planning on starting posting regularly again so I thought a nice change of scenery was worth it.

We're getting ready to make a move from country NSW to Melbourne, so there is lots of do

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Trackbacks

nospam@example.com (Robert Amos) — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 05:57:17 +1000

I've gone with the flow and disabled the reception of trackbacks on my blog. The things were just becoming too much hassle to cleanup. The last thing I wanted this blog to become is another receptical for spam.

I'll still send out trackbacks to blogs that support it, it is a useful feature after all. But who honestly clicks on trackback spam? How can they be making money from this??

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Corporate Humour

nospam@example.com (Robert Amos) — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 09:17:14 +1000

It's nice to see that some companies (other than Google) still have the small business approach to dealing with users and are happy to share some humour with them. Unlike the stallwart formality (star wars fans would use the word Imperial here) that the big companies routinely display.

I refer to the recent maintenance YouTube undertook. This screenshot shows what I mean:

Here's hoping the other big names (IBM, Dell, Microsoft, etc) stop taking themselves so seriously!

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