Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
Spore Spawns Discontent and Piracy
The DRM monster is on the loose again, with the release of Will Wrights long awaited SPORE. Users are so unhappy with SPOREs included Digital Rights Management (DRM), they are downloading pirated torrents of the game in record numbers making it the most pirated game ever. Add to this an appalling one star user rating [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in gaming,news,opinion by brett
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
Facebook is going to clear facebook accounts if
I just received this on my Facebook Superwall titled “Facebook is going to clear facebook accounts if ..” We all know that Facebook is an extraordinary social network where you can talk to friends, find old friends, and so much more. The Facebook team is well aware that Facebook is getting over populated due to [...]
9 Comments » - Posted in facebook,internet,news,opinion by brett
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
Digg Sixty Percent Inaccurate?
As of 5 minutes ago nine out of fifteen stories on the front page or digg.com have been reported as inaccurate by diggers. That is sixty percent of all the stories on the front page at the moment. When I logged on I was confronted with so many potentially inaccurate stories I just had to [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in digg,opinion,politics by brett
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
A Plane On A Conveyor Belt
I came across this interesting if nerdy physics thought experiment… A plane is standing on a runway that can move (some sort of band conveyer). The plane moves in one direction, while the conveyer moves in the opposite direction. This conveyer has a control system that tracks the plane speed and tunes the speed of [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in offbeat,opinion,science by brett
Sunday, May 11th, 2008
Doh! The Technorati Monster escaped again
I added this site to Technorati.com barely a week ago and things were going great at first but in the last couple of hours I have been getting constant errors. When I visit Technorati I get the following friendly message: Doh! The Technorati Monster escaped again. We’re scouring the blogosphere attempting to find it. Back [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in internet,news,opinion by brett
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Is Firefox 1.5 better than Firefox 2?
I know this sounds bizzare so hear me out before you get your knickers in a knot. I wanted to add a link to the blog from the main page at www.intreipd.com.au, so I changed the name of an existing flash button and gave it an appropriate name. When I uploaded the new page and [...]
No Comments » - Posted in opinion,software by brett
Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Junk Food
On a completely different topic to that last post, McDonalds Australia recently re-introduced the McFeast and when I heard about it I felt just a little bit fuzzy inside. Not because I’m a huge Maccas fan, but because it is easily their best burger and the closest thing to a real hamburger they have ever [...]
