by cameron | Jan 18, 2007 | Podcast, Uncategorized
Some of you may know that for a long while I co-hosted a weekly podcast here on The Podcast Network with Australian cleric Father Bob Maguire. Recently Poland-based News Corp blogger (figure *that* one out) Evan Maloney wrote a post suggesting that Father Bob would make a much better leader of the Catholic Church in Australia than the current top dog George Pell who, as Evan points out, has a track record of excluding women, gays, lesbians and tagging Islam. It’s worth reading the 90-odd comments on the post to get a whiff of the stink you can cause in this country if you *dare* criticize a powerbroker of the Catholic Church (even if in doing so you are extolling the virtues of another Catholic cleric).
by cameron | Jan 18, 2007 | Podcast
On the show tonight….
The word of the day is “Ringtonitis”: When that personalized ringtone you added to your mobile phone just doesn’t seem funny or clever anymore and you are completely sick of it. eg “Making the Galaga theme my ringtone was funny for about a week but now it’s giving me ringtonitis.”
I talk a little bit about this highs and lows of my day – being in the Green Guide, losing a host, and getting unceremoniously thrown out of someone’s office – and then move onto The National Conference for Media Reform and play a clip from Bill Moyers opening speech.
Then I talk about Joseph Campbell, one of the 20th centuries greatest Mythology experts and Reginald Finely’s new site Freethinker Finder – a dating site for rational, logical people.
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The G’Day World Theme Song is “Save Me†by The Napoleon Blown Aparts.
by cameron | Jan 18, 2007 | Australian politics, CIA, Melbourne, Podcast, science vs religion, US politics
On the show tonight….
The word for the day is “blogorrhea“. To write a blog entry just for the sake of posting an entry, not because you have done anything interesting today.
Think you only use 10% of your brain? Think again.
Why should Australia’s Attorney-General Phillip Ruddock have the ability to stop someone from publishing a book? Do we want freedom of speech in this country or not?
If someone attaches a video camera to his shoe and films up ladies skirts on Melbourne trams, what law is he breaking?
Some Christian in Washington doesn’t want his kids’ school to show Al Gore’s film because it doesn’t agree with the Bible that the earth is only thousands of years old.
As Fidel Castro apparently takes his last breaths, I talk a little about the man and his 48 years in power.
Did LBJ have JFK killed?
- E. Howard Hunt, a former CIA agent who organized the Watergate break-in, says LBJ might have done it.
- Barr McClellan, father of former White House press secretary Scott McClellan and a partner in the Austin law firm that represented Johnson, says LBJ did it.
- LBJ’s former mistress Madeleine Duncan Brown says LBJ did it
Oh and then I explain why our inability to disprove god and unicorns does nothing to change the fact that the existence of both is highly improbable.
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The G’Day World Theme Song is “Save Me†by The Napoleon Blown Aparts.
by cameron | Jan 17, 2007 | Podcast, Uncategorized
I just love the way so-called “customer support” folks in telephone companies still think “It isn’t possible” is a legitimate excuse for bad customer service.
I rang 3 today to try to get them to merge the two data plans I have with my two devices (my mobile phone and my laptop card). I had a flat rate plan on the laptop card for 200mb a month and yet they were charging me $3/mb for data on my phone. I just wanted them to say “Hey, these are both Cameron Reilly using date on our network, it should all just be wrapped up under his data plan.”
But oh no. Too hard. Can’t do it. Not possible. I spent 30 minutes on the phone to two separate support people (who were, I suspect, in Bangladesh) telling me “it isn’t possible”.
“Why not?” was my monotonous reply.
To which they would answer “You can have data plans on one, the other or both. You can’t have one data plan which covers both devices.”
“Why not?”
“It isn’t possible.”
“Why not?”
“You can have data plans on one, the other or both. You can’t have one data plan which covers both devices.”
And repeat.
So finally I decided to sign up for a flat rate data plan on my mobile account, cancel my laptop card and, if I need to use it, pull the SIM card out of my mobile and stick it in the laptop. A pain in the ass but better than paying for two separate plans.
But the point is “not possible” should NOT be in the vocabulary of any customer support person. I actually argues with the guy at one stage, saying “well it’s 2007 my friend, I know a little about pooters and the innernet, I’m pretty sure it is POSSIBLE, but what you’re saying is Three just can’t be bothered to do it. Am I right?”
He agreed.
This wouldn’t have happened if Shane Williamson was still running 3. He may be a Christian but he p0wns customer support. 🙂
Speaking of Michael J Fox… I just uploaded a new episode of The Movie Show where I review the 1985 classic “Back To The Future”.
by cameron | Jan 17, 2007 | Podcast, Uncategorized
Brian Shearer, Marty Blevins and Andy Slaughter have been running a great podcast about comics over on their Gravyboy site for a year and I’m very excited to have them joining TPN! I’ve been wanting a comics podcasts since day one of TPN and so I was really excited when Scott Sherman brought these guys to my attention!
If you enjoy comics, actually, even if you don’t, check out their show. You might find out what you’ve been missing out on all these years!
by cameron | Jan 16, 2007 | Podcast, Uncategorized
Sorry folks, was out tonight with a mate shooting the breeze. Oh and reading “The God Delusion” by Richard Dawkins, which I finally bought. So far – brilliant.
One request – I just noticed G’Day World has a princely total of ZERO reviews in the Aussie iTunes store. Anyone want to rectify that situation for me???
