September 2011
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A Night Ten Years Ago...
On the tenth anniversary of the destruction of the World Trade Center Towers, some reflections.
I was up late on that fateful night, looking at something on the internet when a friend of mine rang and told me to turn on the TV. He also mentioned someone had attacked the Pentagon. I asked him if he were joking, but he assured me he wasn’t.
However, the sight that greeted me when I...
August 2011
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Lions and Pluses...
This past month has seen the arrival of OSX 10.7 Lion and Google’s social layer, Google+…enough to keep a die-hard tech fan amused.
Interestingly enough, I’m writing this post on a Parallels version of Windows 7 on my Macbook. It’s been quite a few months since I last used Windows and I had to reinstall it after the virtual drive screwed up. Yes, it happens even with...
June 2011
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Red Zones, Green Zones, White Zones...
It’s been two weeks since Christchurch experienced its second 6+ magnitude quake this year. For the second time in less than six months a big quake has unsettled routine. This time with only one fatality and no one missing.
I was looking at the #eqnz hashtag moments before it hit, having just retweeted news of the two aftershocks prior to it. To watch the stream in real-time as it...
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A Tale of Two Steves...
One week Microsoft announces Windows 8, the next week Apple announces things that will appear a lot quicker than the Microsoft products…
In the next 24 hours, Melbourne Time, we’ll hear the word from Steve Jobs at WWDC and what’s coming up for iCloud and iOS 5. We’ll probably also hear that famous “…and one more thing…”
There’s also...
May 2011
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Rapture Saturday Turns Into Non-Event and...
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April 2011
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Everyone Loves A (Royal) Wedding...
After months of natural disasters around Australia and the world, it was good last night to actually pay attention to something a bit better…a Royal Wedding.
Will and Kate.
Whether you were a republican or a monarchist, last night you were probably watching the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. From the looks of Twitter last night (Australian time), everyone was glued to their...
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A Relatively Quiet Month...
After a busy start to the year emergency-wise, April has been natural disaster-free…
Well, apart from some rain and a bit of flash flooding up in Queensland the past week, but compared to earlier in the year, it didn’t exactly make the #qldfloods hashtag trend.
Tropical Cyclone Errol finally became a reality after some near-misses in previous months, but was only category 1 and blew...
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Emergencies Overload In A Short Time...
It’s been quite a year for natural disasters and emergencies and we’re only up to April already.
Since last I posted we’ve had the Christchurch earthquake and the Japan quake and tsunami, plus the nuclear power plant situation at Fukushima in Japan.
From a Social Media emergency voluntweeter point-of-view, that makes it quite a busy year already. Too busy. Since December...
February 2011
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Collating Emergency Information
A look at one tool for collating information, news and resources in emergencies…Springpad
January and February 2011 will go down as one of the busies times for Australian natural disasters and emergencies. Queensland floods (#qldfloods), Victorian floods (#vicfloods, vicrains), Tropical Cylones Anthony and Yasi (#tcanthony, #tcyasi), another lot of Victorian floods and even bushfires over...
Two Years After Black Saturday →
The second anniversary of Black Saturday is tomorrow. With that in mind, a look back to the day the Victoria bushfires started…
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And Now Back to #VicFloods Mk II...
Can it rain any more???
Victoria barely gotten over January’s floods when the tail-end of Tropical Cyclone Yasi dumped more excessive rain on an already-waterlogged state.
Yesterday, Friday February 4 2011, saw Melbourne suburbs deluged and covered in massive amounts of water.
Places you’d never expect to be be flooded were under water very quickly, after 150 to 200mm of rain...
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Queensland 3, Tropical Cyclone Yasi 0...
Queensland comes through its worst tropical cyclone with a miraculous result
It’s almost a day after Tropical Cyclone Yasi made landfall on the North Queensland coast. There’s wreckage all over the place around areas directly in the cyclone’s path. However, there’s good news in the midst of this disaster: there are no deaths reported, neither are there any severe...
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Tropical Cyclone Yasi - Before The Eye...
With an hour and a half to go…everyone in Australia is watching the news or Twitter to keep up with the cyclone information.
It’s 11:28pm in Melbourne Victoria, 10:28pm Queensland time.
The eye of the cyclone is due to hit land around midnight Queensland time.
Already the wind and the rain is hitting various parts of the QLD coast, especially around Townsville.
Twitter has...
January 2011
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Here Comes Tropical Cyclone Yasi...
Tropical Cyclone Yasi approaches the Queensland Coast, putting a state already reeling from the Queensland/Brisbane floods on edge again.
With little under a day to go before it hits the Queensland coast, Tropical Cyclone Yasi is causing a bit of a stir on old media and social media today.
The Queensland Premier, Anna Bligh, has already done a few press conferences today to alert her state to...
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Up Goes A Dot Net Page...
It’s been a busy year and the way things can get with family, even busier.
It seems my blogging was the casualty of that in the second half of last year. However, my Twitter and Facebook usage remained, so I’ve kept up with things.
However, my Tumblr page has been a bit underused. Until today.
Now it’s the home of geehall1.net. The nicest part of Tumblr is it’s a...
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Optus ZTE My Tab Is Better Than Expected...
The Why Of Purchase:
Basically, my four-year-old kept pinching my iPad off me, so I needed to give him his own device to play and practice on. So off to the local shopping centre and phone store to see what they had.
Options And Budget:
It was an obvious choice of price. Something under $300 because, after all, this was for a child. That left the only other option, the Galaxy Tab, out. The...
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I'm listed in Tumblweeds under comics,...
I’m listed in Tumblweeds, a user-generated community directory that rates Tumblr bloggers by their number of followers. Find me listed in #comics, #sciencefiction, #socialmedia
Floods In Australia
If it’s not bushfires in this country it’s floods. Australia doesn’t get blizzards or snowstorms.
America is copping the white stuff at the moment.
Queensland is still mopping up after their flash flooding, while Victoria’s western districts are waterlogged to the extreme. At least Victorian towns have had more time to prepare, with efforts put into building levy...
Is there more social media can do to help with the...
Is there more social media can do to help with the Queensland floods? Write an answer on Quora Is there more social media can do to help with the Queensland floods?
Testing Out Quora to Blog Connection...
It’s interesting to find a Quora question/topic related to connecting the service to one’s blog. Ever wanting to see how things work, I took a look in the settings and played with the feature, only to find it works for Tumblr and Wordpress. This was a bit of a chellenge, considering my blogs were usually hosted with Blogger and Posterous. Thankfully I had a Tumblr account which needed...
October 2010
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Facebook Embraces Group Chat and Lets You Export,... →
infoneer-pulse:
Facebook introduced new grouping features on Facebook today, calling it the answer to the big problem of wanting to only share information with a small set of friends. The site also gave users the ability to export all their data and keep a closer eye on the sites and apps they have allowed to access the profile.
» via Wired
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September 2010
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August 2010
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June 2010
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