Dec
31
2008
As it’s now the end of 2008 I thought I’d just like to reflect briefly and thank everyone who has been on this journey with me.
I had only just launched the podcast at the start of the year. Since then I’ve posted 30 Your Story Episodes and 18 Addendum Episodes. Along with many blog posts [...]
Tags: Adventure, Europe, Personal, Travel
Dec
16
2008
Welcome To Episode 30 of Your Story.
Today we talk with David Shaw who as an Industrial Designer with his company Street and Garden Furniture Company shares a little of the life of an industrial designer. We talk of what design is for him with his early attempts at being a manufacturer to eventually realise that [...]
Tags: Art, Brisbane, Design, Industrial Design, Podcast, Street Furniture, Technology, West End
Dec
15
2008
Welcome To Episode 18 of Your Story Addendum.
Saturday 13 December 2008 saw rallies around Australia in all capital cities against the Australian Federal governments plans initially to trial and eventually introduce a mandatory ISP level filter. In Brisbane several hundred concerned people turned out to speak and make their feelings heard.
Tags: Addendum, Australia, Australian politics, Censorship, Internet Filter, No Clean Feed, Rally
Dec
08
2008
Today I came across this post from The Nock Blog about the clumsy attempts to filter internet content in the UK. As they are attempting to block child pornography they seem to be throwing up false positives for social networking sites and Wikipedia preventing them from being viewed.
I don’t pretend to understand all that is [...]
Dec
07
2008
As you may recall the Australian Governments has decided to introduce a trial for an Internet filter. I decided that one of the few things to express my displeasure about this was to send letters to my local MP, Prime Minster Kevin Rudd and Minister for Broadband, Communications and Digital Economy, Steven Conroy. I posted [...]
Tags: Firewall, Incompetience, Internet, Kevin Rudd, Stephen Conroy