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Environment Weblogging

Greening from Australia

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Long time silent Australian weblogger Allan Moult is back with a site that is now focused on ecology and the environment. From the contact page, it looks like Allan will be joined by Fred Baker and Rosalind Creighton. Welcome back, Allan.

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Technology

Uninstall UnBox

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I tried out Amazon’s Unbox, and unlike others didn’t have problems downloading a rental and running it. I was able to connect my TV via VGA (my television has a PC input) and the viewing experience was quite good. Not as good as a DVD, but good enough. However, the […]

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Technology

More UnBox

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The reason Amazon’s Unbox connects to the internet to uninstall is that everyone’s local objects are mirrored at Amazon. To disable an account, it has to be disabled both at Amazon and on the PC. The only problem is, the uninstall disables the validation of the PC as the first part of […]

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People

On dealing with griefers

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Griefer. It’s a new word. A griefer is a person like Jason Fortuny, who posed as a woman and put out an extremely suggestive sex wanted ad at Craigslist and then published all the results–including actual names, emails, photos, and other contact information of the men who responded. I’ve always thought the […]

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People

On dealing with griefers

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Griefer. It’s a new word. A griefer is a person like Jason Fortuny, who posed as a woman and put out an extremely suggestive sex wanted ad at Craigslist and then published all the results–including actual names, emails, photos, and other contact information of the men who responded. I’ve always thought the […]