Wikipedia gets precious, and not so brilliant - posted by Graham

Wikipedia is the online encyclopedia that is open to anyone to edit, unless you happen to work for a member of the US Congress. Then, ironically, you apparently have less rights than other people. There have been some recent examples... More

Our own Prince Charlie - posted by Graham

Crikey calls him "Dollar Sweetie" but I prefer to call him "Prince Charles". Not just because "Charles" and "Costello" start with the same letter, but because John Howard is starting to get that familiar-comfortability that Queen Elizabeth has. We'll have... More

Where's Casey? - posted by Graham

It's nowhere near as good as the classic "Where's Rudy" attack ad of Democrat Senator Paul Wellstone, but http://wherescasey.com/, the work of Republican Senator Rick Santorum is worth a look. "Where's Casey" is an attempt to exploit the web in... More

Selling googles to google - posted by Graham

Has the University of New South Wales out-googled Google? According to this report Google has bought a new search algorithm from Ori Alon an Israeli who studied at UNSW and now works at Google's offices in Mountain View California. But... More

Gaven goes as predicted - posted by Graham

As the polls predicted, the National Party won the Gaven by-election with just over an 8 percent swing. Listening to them you'd think it was actually the general election. True, a swing like that would most likely deliver them government,... More

Nats should win Gaven - posted by Graham

I've been silent on the blogging front for a while, but it only seems right that I put in my prediction for tonight's Gaven by-election before any results come in. The National Party should win by a narrow margin, but... More