Thursday, May 29, 2008

Help Firefox Set a World Record

Download Day - EnglishI've been a Firefox fan for the last couple of years and have been using the Firefox 3 Beta version for some time now. I made my pledge tonight to download Firefox 3 on the release date. You can too.

The company on Wednesday started a campaign asking users to pledge to download the next full release of its browser on the day it is available so the release can set a Guinness World Record for the largest number of software downloads in 24 hours.

By signing up you will receive an email to remind you to download Firefox 3 when it becomes available. With your help the Firefox community can go down in history.

Monday, May 19, 2008

Will Blue Sky Be a Thing of the Past?

Scientist Tim Flannery has proposed a radical solution to climate change which may change the colour of the sky.

Professor Flannery says climate change is happening so quickly that mankind may need to pump sulphur into the atmosphere to survive.

His plan is to add sulphur to jet fuel and if the measures that are in place now don't work, then this will need to start happening in as few as five years.

This is the stuff of horror movies, and it bewilders me to think that when my grandchildren grow up they may not remember there was once a blue sky. Will it be a grey murky colour? A side effect, of course, would be global dimming, and I imagine that would plunge us in to another ice age. I read somewhere that the last ice age was caused by massive amounts of ash spewed into the atmosphere after enormous volcanic eruptions.

Goodbye sunglasses, hello winter woollies.

Thursday, May 15, 2008

The "Clean Feed" Nobody Wants

The Federal Government is pushing forward with a plan to force ISPs to filter out all material "inappropriate" for children from Australian homes.

This plan will waste tens of millions of taxpayer dollars and slow down Internet access.

Despite being almost universally condemned by the public, ISPs, State Governments, Media and censorship experts, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy is determined to force this filter into your home. Don't let him!

By letting policy makers know just what we think of the "clean feed" Internet filter, we can bring about a policy change. You can help by contacting your representatives and spreading the word about this campaign. Here are some quick actions you can take to make a difference.

There are several quick things you can do to keep Australian Internet access fast and open. Go here to see how you can help.

Friday, May 02, 2008

Public Airing of Dirty Laundry

I don't think that I have enough hate inside me to write a book about it, unlike France's Michel Houellebecq, who vented a lifetime of anger against his mother in a book called "Atomised" by portraying her as an egocentric, sexually promiscuous hippie who neglected her children.

She's retaliated by publishing a book of her own, "The Innocent One," in which she heaps insults on her son.

"My son can go and get screwed by whomever he wants, he can write another book, I don't give a toss," she says in one excerpt, widely published in French media on Wednesday.

"But if he has the misfortune of sticking my name on anything again he'll get my walking stick in his face and that'll knock his teeth out," she says in what newspapers described as a typical sample.

How sad, with Mother's Day around the corner, to have such a public display of dirty laundry aired for the world to read.

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