| Feb 10 | We're all doomed! Low income workers no longer to subsidise the under-.. Doomed indeed. Doomed to read the mindless utterances of those who don't understand that flat-rate tax 'levies' of any sort - be they called a GST, VAT, Flood disaster or Medicare levy - inherently punish the low-income taxpayer and preferentially r.. |
| Feb 3 | Scapegoated again. Increased productivity usually means fewer staff, s.. Let's assume that Western capitalism is in decline, or damaged, or even dead. It certainly isn't adapting to change, so it may as well be dead. Or at the very least that the managers of capital are comatose. Too harsh? Yet almost universally these m.. |
| Jan 25 | Gillard's caucus weekend brainstorming session 'unprecedented' says Te.. A pre-session meeting of a government caucus is "unprecedented"? Never, ever happened before? Somehow I don't think so. Love the unattributed negative quotes, too. All the better for the Terrorgraph to spin up something from nothing I guess. PM Juli.. |
| Jan 20 | The cyclist's side of Shane Warne's whinge Having ridden close to 300,000km in my lifetime I've just about seen everything imaginable, from fiesty kangaroos bent on destroying a peleton to looney drivers determined to rid the road of riders at all costs. As well as, in the majority, careful .. |
| Jan 17 | Having it both ways - we want good customer service but take no person.. I have my own personal stake in this - my kids just don't take council library threats seriously enough. They are great readers and borrowers but slack returners. I badger and remind them but if I don't take control and induce some action they just .. |
| Jan 3 | It's the silly season, or SMH wastes space on non-news It must be hard filling space in a newspaper, online or off. But do we really want to read this sort of trivial beatup? A visiting cricket team arrives early - yes, early , ie not on time - to a function and is forced to wait 15 minutes - yes, a who.. |
| Dec 24 | NSW clamps down harder on wind farms - let's see them do it to miners .. Or any other noisy, ugly polluter for that matter. On one hand I can see what they are getting at - whilst wind farms are an important and relatively clean form of energy (everything gets made in a dirty manufacturing and installation process, after.. |
| Dec 22 | We could all be paying a high price for the Daily Terrorgraph and its .. Yes, we all want Freedom of the Press but do we want a free press that ignores reason and logic and prints just, umm , anything? They have printed a weak piece on smart meters today, blaming the Gillard government and the Greens for something that i.. |
| Dec 16 | Google maps - advertising that works? Make your sign large enough to be seen from Google Maps (or whatever) and get free advertising. Don't know if it works in drawing customers but I saw it and here it is... in the Albert St, St Peters landfill site... formerly a brickpit and/or swamp I.. |
| Dec 15 | Gumbramorra swamp, or Sydenham if you like I know Gumbramorra swamp quite well. It's dry, heavily paved and filled with factories. Plus the odd house or 3. When it rains, however, the swamp rises fast and floods Sydenham and Victoria Roads to car door-level in places. You get a bow-wave effe.. |
| Dec 2 | NSW Labor blamed for non-publication of selected climate papers. Terro.. Labor can never win with the Terrorgraph . It's always wrong, wrong, wrong. Even when the link is tenuous, thin and weak - or even unfounded. Doesn't matter, it's just Labor. So an ex-bureaucrat has seemingly spilled the beans that the NSW Departmen.. |
| Dec 2 | Deakin's Universal Motion Simulator Not just a better way to simulate flight but also - by the looks of it - tremendous fun, too. |
| Nov 24 | Kitara MIDI synth guitar shows some promise I'm not sure I need one but I'd sure as heck like one. Just to muck around with. To be honest though I haven't even scratched the surface of DAWs, MIDI controllers and VSTi synths, let alone playing one "guitar-style", so why I'd want to venture in .. |
| Nov 16 | Rose Bay flying boat base Rose Bay S25_377 , a photo by gtveloce on Flickr. Or the real Sydney International Airport, if you like. Image somewhat re-processed of course. |
| Nov 16 | Terrorgraph spins up big lies in new Carbon Tax terror rant Well this is sad , as it demonstrates how low News Ltd has sunk in its demolition of journalism, but also funny in its over the top bias. The Sydney Terrorgraph has turned a fair and reasonable warning to businesses to not exploit consumers into "an.. |
| Nov 15 | 35mm monochrome scanned and reprocessed in PC gP1_series_(361) Originally uploaded by gtveloce A slightly more bizarre take on an Ansett (or short to be ex-Ansett) Short flying boat at Sydney's Rose Bay around 36-odd years ago... give or take. Many of these images originally by the late James D.. |
| Nov 8 | An abstraction 1_almost abstract_W5_400(111) Originally uploaded by gtveloce I can't tell what this is anymore so I pronounce it abstract. It was once a photograph of something, I think, but I have Photoshopped that original work out of existence. There are other .. |
| Nov 7 | It's a mobile world, so let's ditch the NBN... well for 5.3% of us may.. Of course mobile IP is going to grow - we've reached a reported 5.3% after what, maybe 5 years of easily-accessible mobile IP traffic? And it's only in the last 2 years that it's really started to take off. It's early days and it's easy to expect th.. |
| Oct 25 | Prediction: writers will churn out explosive bios on Steve Jobs for Ch.. I know, it's easy to predict this stuff. But here it is already, the proof of the pudding. Expect more. Lots more. Now I can't verify the biographical facts as they are written in the book quoted below - and I don't expect Steve Jobs to come back to.. |
| Oct 17 | O'Farrell to ignore a report and pander to unobservant motorists inste.. Why bother with a report when you are going to pander only to those who have expressed their (apparently baseless) opinion anyway? Well to this state government it's presumably about votes , not safety . They have already turned off speed cameras, e.. |
| Aug 31 | Sony’s update to the VG10 - the VG-20. Interesting semi-pro hand-held .. Wow. Semi-pro hand-held video that matches - and betters - DSLRs. At a price, of course. Could be a handy device if you are cashed up and want one camera that does it all. Sony Releases Updated NEX-VG20 Camcorder | Video News First off, the camcorde.. |
| Aug 26 | Who came first - first MP3 player, first tablet, first GUI. first smar.. It's not all about Steve , folks. And that's Jobs, not his pal Wozniak who got out much earlier and hasn't played the 'Messiah' role quite like the "other" Steve. I'm an admirer of both of these Apple founders, and liked their early pre-Mac products.. |
| Aug 25 | Dabbling in audio recording on your PC? FWIW I use Ableton + Reaper + .. I've tried just about every Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) there is and whilst I'm no expert - or even musician - I do have enough knowledge to get by, and to form an opinion. So here it is! Oh, and I use PC hardware , either under Win7 or XP SP3 ... |
| Aug 25 | Best DAW for the money? What a question! Ableton? Reaper? Mixcraft? I've tried just about every Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) there is and whilst I'm no expert - or even musician - I do have enough knowledge to get by, and to form an opinion. So here it is! Oh, and I use PC hardware , either under Win7 or XP SP3 ... |
| Aug 25 | O'Farrell's carbon scaremongering revealed (again) I think we've worked this out by now, but a sober, fair assessment of the carbon tax would reveal O'Farrell, Abbott and the various vested interests banding together these days to be shonky charlatans peddling mistruths. And so it goes. At least the .. |
| Aug 22 | The penny finally drops for HP as it prepares to drop the PC business It was inevitable that one day HP would tire of the high-volume but low-margin PC hardware business, and now that day has edged a little closer. By shoring up software and services it is following IBM's lead, however it should be noted that IBM - wh.. |
| Aug 19 | O'Farrell's grand plan for fiscal contraction revealed - cut research .. Well he promised us the axe and here it is... but it won't stop here, either. This cut is obvious enough - forestry researchers are hardly visible to most voters - and O'Farrell will keep to that tactic of hidden public service job losses . Look out.. |
| Aug 18 | Ah Fairfax, you've done it again. Nice car, shame about the journos an.. Yes, yes, I know, I'm overly pedantic. I also shouldn't read this rubbish. (But if you do hanker after a selfish yet frugal sports car then a 1.6l engine in a light body is a good start.) What actually caught my eye was yet another rendition of the .. |
| Aug 15 | Excited, speculative article on a production rear-transaxle GM Commodo.. I have no particular interest in GM's Commodores - too fat, heavy, big, overpowered, subsidised and just plain wasteful for me (I simply prefer small cars and bicycles, always have) - but it's nice to see the Aussie GM brand catch up technically (an.. |
| Aug 10 | Interesting article explains the practical and theoretical differences.. Well I never knew movie lenses focused the other way around, did I? And many other interesting points. For myself I'll shoot videos with what I have, but if you want to step up to a new world of quality - and cost - read on... Cameras are for christ.. |
| Aug 9 | Shhhh, don't tell the anti-NBN crowd. Data transport via optics saves .. It's not directly about optic fibre data to the home, no, and it will take time before it filters into the real world - but here's another interesting use of meta-materials. Of course the researchers are biased when they say that the ' trend in tele.. |
| Aug 5 | What Miranda Devine believes in: a year-8 reader unable to choose betw.. Somehow opinionated Terrorgraph columnist Miranda Devine has contrasted private "social values" research by Quantum Market Research to the Gillard government's decision to implement a Carbon Tax and in so doing "proved" that Julia is simply out of t.. |
| Aug 4 | Optimism abounds in High Speed Train proposal for Bris-Syd-Melb I'd love to see a high speed train running down the east coast of Australia - I really would - but I doubt that the numbers actually stack up. My instinct is that it'll be too expensive to build and require endless subsidy. The only way that a fixed.. |
| Jul 13 | No I'm not spamming you, it's just a blog-list I've been a bit slack here with my posting but there's been a lot more activity on my other blogs... please check 'em out! Addicted2wheels - bike racing for everyone Offline - my take on the planet and its politics Dopage - all the dope on the dopes .. |
| Jul 13 | Check these other blogs out! I've been a bit slack here with my posting but there's been a lot more activity on my other blogs... please check 'em out! Addicted2wheels - bike racing for everyone Offline - my take on the planet and its politics Dopage - all the dope on the dopes .. |