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Analog to Digital Shift: Implications of Owning Vs Renting Books, Music, Movies etc

What happens to the concept of ownership of books, music, DVD Movie & TV series collections etc in the shift from Analog to Digital? As a journalist and keen observer of how technology affects society I see many upsides to digital content such as ease of use and the ability to carry around massive collections [...]

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My 2011 Reviewed: Journalism, Photography, Evolving Technology and more

2011 was a momentous year. I created opportunities to cover a wide variety of topics for an increasing number of media outlets as a freelance journalist/photojournalist, quit watching free to air TV (turned off my TiVo) and switched my reading habits almost exclusively from print books to Kindle/Kobo ebooks. During the year I travelled for [...]

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Impact of NBN on Visual F/X Industry: Rising Sun Pictures and Animal Logic

The proposed National Broadband Network (NBN) will have an impact on many parts of our lives at work and home. I spoke with a variety of people in the Australian visual effects (VFX) industry about how the NBN could effect their industry. Phil Sullivan is a classic example of how talented Australians in the VFX [...]

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Augmented Humanity – Cyborg implants, magnetic fingers, exoskeletons… (GEARE #65)

Forget augmented reality – why change the world around you when you can change yourself? Read on as I explore the new age of Augmented Humanity: Cyborg implants, magnetic fingers, exoskeletons and more. Cyborg definitions – 1: A cybernetic organism; 2: A reconstructed person capable of exceptional physical feats via replaced or augmented human parts. [...]

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My First Computer Games: Nibbles Gorilla Stunts Dune II on MS-DOS 5.0

My first ever computer was a laptop powered by an AMD SX-25 CPU running the MS-DOS 5.0 operating system. More importantly DOS 5 included 2 games programmed in BASIC: Nibbles and Gorilla, which were the first computer games I ever played. I hadn’t thought about this at all for many years until I was chatting [...]

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No Ones Reputation is Immortal: Reflections on Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley

I recently had a discussion with a friend about how no one’s reputation is immortal. It doesn’t matter if you’re the ruler of a vast empire or owner of the largest newspaper and magazine business in the world. Erosion will relentlessly wear down physical artifacts of your existence and the sands of passing time will [...]

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Formula 1 (F1) Racing ONEHD TV Channel 10 and Internet Video Stream Coverage

This is an analysis of Network 10 TV (Channel 10 / ONE HD) exclusive Australian live TV coverage of the 2006-2015 Formula One Grand Prix World Championship (Practice & Qualifying sessions, Race Day and highlights packages) on ONE HD, Channel 10 and new for 2011 free Internet Video Stream Coverage through a web browser, iPad, [...]

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2010 The Year In Photos

Initially thinking about 2010 I couldn’t recall that many great photo opportunities but going through my Flickr photo archive soon proved that false as I found dozens of great shots. 2010 started with a bang! I had the job of taking Sydney New Years Fireworks Photos for Sydney Harbour YHA. I was invited by Tourism [...]

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I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett (Book Review)

Terry Pratchett has been my favourite author since childhood and I’ve bought almost all of his books over the years as you can see by the partial photo of my bookshelf below. I recently finished reading the review copy of his new book I Shall Wear Midnight sent to me by his publishers. Darker and [...]

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How To Think Like a Futurist (Craig Rispin at Gartner Symposium)

I had a press pass to the 2010 Gartner Symposium/ITxpo and specifically made time to attend Craig Rispin’s session “How To Think Like a Futurist as I’d heard he had some thought provoking ideas to share. He made a lot of good points including his first one which was that futurists need to read lots [...]

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Favourite Comedy News Trivia Podcasts and TV Shows from USA UK AUS etc

Keeping up to date with the news media can be depressing with tales of war, death and disaster but combining some serious straight news from a newspaper or 24/7 news channel with several comedy news/trivia podcasts and satirical news TV shows can balance that by informing and entertaining you. I subscribe to the following News [...]

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Future of manned space flight: a private frontier?

An article I wrote about the future of manned space flight was just published by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Drum Unleashed website. It is definitely the freelance article I’m most proud of writing to date Writing freelance articles for big media organisations is fun but it’s even better when you get a free hand [...]

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Rambling Thoughts Blog 2009: The Year That Was

2009 was the year of many great “1st time” moments including: 10 of my best photos were displayed at an art gallery in Paddington, Sydney Sailing Sydney Harbour on an adventurer’s yacht Holidaying in the heart of NZ’s Mountains and Glaciers Writing articles for APCMAG Online, ABC Online and iTnews as a paid freelance journalist [...]

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2009 End Of Year Giveaways For Guest Writers

It’s the season for giving and being thankful for what others have done for you so thanks to various website sponsors I’m giving away some nice stuff to recent and upcoming guest writers on this Rambling Thoughts Blog Finance/Money Articles This year marks the 45th anniversary of the Canon calculator. To celebrate Canon has made [...]

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Achieving Your Potential

I often think how many people I come across don’t reach their full potential. I know they have great skills or knowledge which could lead to them living a richer life (in terms of well being and/or financially) but these skills/knowledge are lying dormant photo credit: morberg Some of these people are doing work they [...]

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