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My Favourite Quote of the Day
In regards to the cancellation of the Glass House
Bob Brown’s quoted as saying:
“The Howard government has shown that it lacks that most Australian of values - a self-deprecating sense of humour”
Found here: five public opinions
Cross Media Ownership
There are two things that have always worried me: a curry that isn’t spicy and too much power in one place, although the proposed media changes do leave a funny taste in my mouth it’s the second reason that has me concerned more.
I’m rather cynical about most things, it’s the reason that I mainly concern my self with abc radio particularly Triple J and why I love Media Watch, the main thing that irks me about the new cross media ownership legislation is that fact that in the beginning there will be a raft of takeovers and attempted take overs and current big players in the market try to get a foot hold, while this won’t concern the the consumers of the media market it will eventually effect them.
I don’t think that foreign ownership/investment is always bad, business is after all about making money and if there is a market making money, investment will soon follow. What does concern me is the fact that media has proven its self time and again to be such a powerful medium, both with the ability to make certain individuals powerful, a recent occurrence is the event surrounding Jonestown, and to influence opinions, which can be seen around election time when media outlets with ties to certain political parties try to push their own interests and I’m am sure that there are cases around the world where this also holds true. But I do have a problem with foreign ownership in the fact that I am afraid that they might push their own agenda or show reports that they only want us to hear, since we are not really connected to their world it does allow only a few channels for news and media to flow through. Obviously I’m thinking of Rupert Murdoch, Head of News Corp. and former (or current) Australian will be at the forefront trying to buy up some media outlets at least.
Google Calendar
Google Calendar has finally arrived. I have been wondering when this would happen, I had always seen the yahoo calendar but never really used it and since google has come out with theirs I can give it a go as well.
I don’t think that there is anything special and great about it now, except for a few things that I want to try out, such as being about attach email addresses to events so that people can be reminded if something is coming up, allowing other people to see your calendar and being able to include other people’s calendar into yours, the other big thing that I like is the fact that it’s iCal complient, which means that I be able to view it from my ibook.
I have to say that it does have a few problems at the moment, for some reason sometimes it doesn’t reneder propery with IE but then again I don’t really use IE and normally use firefox which is works for both in windows and apple. Also there is the fact that I’m not located in the U.K or U.S.A so I won’t be able to access the best features such as using the local search for maps, mobile phone notification and such…
I have yet to compare it to yahoo calendar, but since I am such a google fanboy I don’t think I will have to.
Apple Boot Camp
I get up this morning on the train ride to Uni and i get a couple of messages saying something about apple being able to run windows xp on the intel based mac products.
So I jumped on the Internet as soon as possible to notice that it was a buzz about apple’s new developments, and rightly so.
As for most things mac I headed over to Paul’s site
As always Apple love to make spash and they keep doing it time and time again. This time with BootCamp
And as is mentioned on OSx86
Windows aren’t known as a hardware vendor as such so this shoudn’t really effect their sales of the windows operation system and related software. If anything it should increase because people will need to buy legal copies of office, windows etc…
From high end to mum and dad the implications are far and wide which to me really means more choice, which we know results in better options because of more competition which is only a good thing.