by cameron | Nov 17, 2006 | Podcast, Uncategorized
Thanks to a feed error that Caitlin is getting from the G’Day World feed, I was prompted this morning to check out Netvibes and I was immediately hooked. I’ve now dumped Bloglines and will be using Netvibes as my default home page / RSS reader.
What is Netvibes? Here’s a nice description from masey’s excellent step-by-step guide to configuring it:
Netvibes.com is a custom made web 2.0 home page solution that allows you to create a personalised page filled with content that you find useful… that is relevant to YOU! It’s ideal for your browser homepage and can be accessed from any web enabled computer anywhere!
It’s very cool. Check it out.
By the way, I still haven’t figured out why the G’Day World feed isn’t working inside Netvibes. It seems to be working okay in iTunes and Bloglines. Anyone else noticing problems?
by cameron | Nov 16, 2006 | Podcast
Lynn Fischer now has over 1,000,000 healthy cookbooks in print, and her “Low Fat Cooking for Dummies” has been an amazing best seller for the past four years. With so much talk in the media at the moment about the rise and rise of Type II diabetes, I thought it was time for us to talk more about eating to live. So when I met Lynn by chance in San Francisco, I picked up some easy to follow tips for you fat, nerdy geek types out there. 🙂
by cameron | Nov 15, 2006 | Uncategorized
While I was in the US, I bought the Texas Hold Em game for my iPod from iTunes. Quick review – it rocks! Very nicely put together and quite addictive.
Okay, so much for the good news. Here’s the bad news. I bought it from my laptop and synched it to my iPod. So far so good. Of course when I got home yesterday and synched my iPod with my desktop, the game disappeared! I’ve just spent the last 15 minutes trying to figure out how to get the game back on my desktop and so far, no luck.
I’ve googled it and can’t easily find the solution. Any iTunes gurus out there who want to give me a hint?
by cameron | Nov 13, 2006 | climate change, Culture Jamming, environment, Melbourne
For those of you in Melbourne town, I’ll be taking my video camera down to the Bourke Street Mall on Nov 24 to cover “Buy Nothing Day“. Why not come along and join in the merriment?
According to Wikipedia:
Buy Nothing Day is an informal day of protest against consumerism observed by social activists. It was founded by Vancouver artist Ted Dave and subsequently promoted by the Canadian Adbusters magazine. Participants refrain from purchasing anything for 24 hours in a concentrated display of consumer power. The event is intended to raise awareness of what some see as the wasteful consumption habits of First World countries.
There’s a detailed explanation of the idea from our friends across the Tasman. Here’s an excerpt:
Why don’t you want people to shop?
We are saying we want people to think about what they buy, and whether consuming ever-more actually does increase quality of life. The effects of over-consumption on the environment (such as toxic pollution and climate change) are widely known. These mean we need to reduce consumption, especially in many Western countries like New Zealand that are consuming much more than their fair share of resources. We are also concerned with the role of advertising, the effects of global trade liberalisation and inequities between the developing and developed worlds.
Events:
The Melbourne Culture Jammers will be back in the Bourke Street Mall, cutting up credit cards. Join us. 11am-2pm, Friday November 24th.
by cameron | Nov 13, 2006 | Podcast, Uncategorized
As part of my new job as part-time entertainment gossip mongerer for the showBUZZ podcast, I’ve had to learn how to find stuff like this – the recently released 19 second clip of Britney Spears’ alleged sex tape that rumours say her ex-husband K-Fed is going to sell the full version of. WARNING: NOT WORK SAFE… unless, like me, you work for yourself. In which case, bring it on. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it.
