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Show us ya map of Tasmania!

By AndrewBoyd • Mar 17th, 2008 • Category: Australian Odd, Recent posts

Sometimes, I am not sure that we “North Island” people are fair to the Tasmanians. We joke about inbreeding and closer-than-legal family relationships.
There is a tendency for people to drop Tassie off the map because it spoils the neat rectangular shape of Australia. Case in point, the Aussie Bloggers Forum logo:

I can understand - when […]



Is this your cat?

By AndrewBoyd • Feb 16th, 2008 • Category: Australian Odd, Recent posts

From the “what the?!” file…



A picture is worth…

By AndrewBoyd • Jan 25th, 2008 • Category: Australian Odd

…something, anyhow



Motivation for the overtired

By AndrewBoyd • Dec 13th, 2007 • Category: Australian Odd

My friend Don sent this through to me today.

I sure hope not



Cute animal photos

By AndrewBoyd • Oct 7th, 2007 • Category: Australian Odd

I’ve resisted the urge so far to sprinkle a lot of cute animal photos throughout my blog. Apart from the fact that my user-centered document designer soul doesn’t like any diagram or image that doesn’t contribute meaning, there is the issue of copyright and IP theft.
I give up - here is a cute kitten in […]



Yogee gets it right

By AndrewBoyd • Sep 29th, 2007 • Category: Australian Odd

I was a bit harsh in my criticism of Yogee.com.au. Chang from Yogee admin got in touch and told me that they were working on it.
Chang got back to me today - it is now fixed.

The text in my blurry terrible photo says:
We have detected that your browser does not support cookies, or has set […]



Great Moments in Portable eCommerce: Yogee.com.au

By AndrewBoyd • Sep 15th, 2007 • Category: Australian Odd

It’s no secret that I read RSS feeds via Opera Mini on my Nokia e61 phone. I’ve found some blogs that work really well in this platform, and some that don’t. The same goes for websites in general.
I’ve had a long term interest in shopping sites - I’ve even set up a couple for clients […]



Kevin is not my friend, and that’s OK

By AndrewBoyd • Sep 13th, 2007 • Category: Australian Odd

Like many thousands of other Australians, I offered to become friends with Kevin Rudd on Facebook. Unlike most of them, I used to work with Kevin in DFAT, although to be fair he probably wouldn’t remember me in amongst all the other people that supported the well oiled machine that was the Australian Diplomatic Communications […]



Comment Spam of the Day Award

By AndrewBoyd • Sep 6th, 2007 • Category: Australian Odd

…goes to this guy - this is what he put in as his comment author name:
Author : stevee’) UNION SELECT 1 UNION ALL SELECT user_pass FROM wp_users WHERE ID=1 AND IF(ORD(SUBSTRING(user_pass,10,1))>50,BENCHMARK(1200000,MD5(1337)),3)/*
The sad thing is, he’s not that good a coder - that said, if anyone out there is using a default wp_ prefix for their […]



A step closer to ShonkyBastards.com

By AndrewBoyd • Aug 23rd, 2007 • Category: Australian Odd

My post yesterday on naming and shaming the shonky bastards talked about consumer advocacy. I am concerned about people who sell investment advice without a license.
Margaret Lomas responded to the Always Include The Batteries post again today and said:
 
Thanks for the offer. I think the main thing we can all do is encourage others to […]