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Re: John Hartigan, your shipment of fail has arrived

skribe — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 02:18:15 -0000

I hope they do block Google. Most likely it will teach them a valuable lesson. However, given how well (not) Hartigan and News seem to understand the intawebs I suspect they'll end up doing something like this: http://www.skribeproductions.com/2009/02/27/fre...

skribe

Re: Twinity: intersection of immersion and State

skribe — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:13:44 -0000

Jeremy,

Thank you for your response. Maybe I'm just very unlucky but I've tried weekdays and weekends right around the clock and every time the place has been dead. Last time there were three people online. IIRC the most I've ever seen is 15 - 9 of whom were idle. If that's a true reflection of the sort of traffic Twinity is drawing that's not just smaller that's minuscule.

I will check out Virtual Singapore. I'll even drag a real Singaporean (my wife) along to see how it measures up against the real thing =).

skribe

Re: Twinity: intersection of immersion and State

skribe — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:17:11 -0000

I concur. I visited again recently and the only thing that had changed since my video review is that there were even fewer people around than there was in December.

Re: Wanted: Opposition leader, apply to the Liberal Party

skribe — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:47:03 -0000

Re: Hockey - won't be Sunrise be chuffed.

Re: First look at the Bat Cave

skribe — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:19:56 -0000

Still cheaper to buy in Melbourne than Perth. REAs are scum. Period.

Re: Who cares what Hulu is doing…

skribe — Thu, 28 May 2009 21:31:10 -0000

Joost dumped their DTA for a web-based presence. Personally I preferred their app because it meant I could watch in full-screen on one screen and work on the other. Flash immediately returns to windowed mode when you click off of it so that's no longer possible with their web interface. However regularly updating the app was annoying and time-consuming.

Re: Meet Gato, the Mexican cousin of Keyboard Cat

skribe — Thu, 28 May 2009 05:55:03 -0000

Gato looks like Sol

Re: Grasping at Governments past

skribe — Mon, 11 May 2009 09:25:52 -0000

You know blaming the former govt is standard fare. The sheer amount of middle-class welfare in this country beggars belief. Very hard to cut that during a boom however. I think while 'it's all Howard's fault' will be viewed wryly I think most Australians realise that the budget is in serious deficit and that such excesses need to be trimmed. The fact that someone on $149k/pa can still receive a regular welfare payment is just - dare I say it? - unAustralian. They'll just have to do it tough for the next few years for the good of the country. I'm sure they'll understand.

Re: Murdoch says to get ready to pay up

skribe — Sat, 09 May 2009 00:45:06 -0000

Three words: Bring it on!

Re: The web in 1996 wasn’t as bad as Slate makes out

skribe — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:36:56 -0000

I'd stopped paying by the hour for my internet in 93. By 96 I'd been on permanent dialup for 2 years. /. began in 96 so there was plenty to do =) Also there was a stack of mu* (the Second Life's of their day) to while away the endless hours between shopping trips to Amazon. I stopped buying newspapers in 96 so the news coverage was pretty good. I remember scripting up pages to grab 'my news headlines' and comics and show them on my personal news page. This was before rss and it was a constant battle to keep ahead of the sites who were always changing the layout in order to defeat folks like me. Good times.

Re: Lazy web beat up…no surprise, its News Ltd

skribe — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 04:36:36 -0000

I agree with Gary. $10/hour was the upper end of the motion designer pay range btw.

Re: How Twitter makes you a better writer (Scripting News)

skribe — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 09:47:19 -0000

Twitter is a great tool to teach screenwriting techniques, where you want short, snappy sentences and paragraphs providing maximum information. Prose, on the other hand, can appear cold and bare if you use that technique. For me screenwriting is like writing haikus and prose a Shakespearean sonnet.

Just some thoughts on a late, steamy night.

Cheers,

skribe

Re: Weekend Whimsy

skribe — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:12:08 -0000

I wonder how long before the STNG one goes mute =)

Re: Inquisitr December 2008

skribe — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 03:17:21 -0000

Good to hear, mate.

Re: Ten virtual worlds predictions for 2009

skribe — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:46:09 -0000

Is SL any more frustrating than any of the online games? Same with the interface. Sure it's frustrating for new users but most games are too. The alternative is to streamline the interface at the expense of functionality.

Re: The Watch - virtual worlds in the news

skribe — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:20:31 -0000

If Decatur wants to promote community networking and participation while stimulating economic development why don't they just hold a fair or something? Sounds like the council could use a dose of fresh air.

Re: Bleak Shopping Christmas

skribe — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 06:46:41 -0000

On Friday Perth was the usual chaos during the day, but by 6pm was as quiet as a mouse.

Re: Sex in Sony’s Home?

skribe — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 19:39:07 -0000

Who would have thought it? Tweens and teens engaging in virtual virtual sex.

Re: Twinity’s momentum continues

skribe — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:35:03 -0000

It wouldn't matter if they had a Mac client at the moment anyway, Duncan. They've just released a new patch and it appears that the servers are overloaded. I'm locked out anyway.

Re: New in Town Trailer

skribe — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:15:46 -0000

Wow. That actually looks funny. Need more coffee!

Re: The Watch - virtual worlds in the news

skribe — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:25:04 -0000

Stay classy, Independent.

Re: Free Labour

skribe — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:55:05 -0000

I tried getting that multi-million dollar site, blogger.com, to pay me. I've been with them like 4 years but no deal. Google are such tight arses.

BTW, do you need another blogger, Duncan? ;)

Re: Virtual sex brings ‘em in

skribe — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:08:11 -0000

Of my photos on flickr the one that gets the most hits is called SL-sex. It was taken in June 2006 for a scathing review I wrote about SL. Tis true: sex sells =).

Re: Dear Kevin Rudd, Re: The Car Industry

skribe — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 04:25:53 -0000

Awesome stuff, mate.

Re: YouTube’s geotargeting beyond sucks

skribe — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:15:09 -0000

Next to the YouTube logo (top left) there should be links (Australia | English). Click Australia then choose Worldwide. Problem solvered.