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Category Archives: Ranty

A letter to Random House Australia regarding eBooks.

The following is a letter I sent to the Random House Australia. As you can tell from reading it I am unhappy that it is not possible for me to buy the books I want from them in the format I want. 27th October 2009 Ebook publishing. Random House Australia Level 3
100 Pacific Highway
North Sydney, N.S.W., [...]

A letter to the Minister for Housing

The following is a letter I sent to the Minister for Housing. I also sent slightly modified versions to my local member and to the Prime Minister. The Hon. Tanya Plibersek MP Minister for Housing Minister for the Status of Women 111-117 Devonshire Street Surry Hills, N.S.W., 2010 Dear Minister, I have read with interest [...]

A letter to the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy

The following is a letter I wrote to the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy which I penned in response to the Australian Government’s unworkable internet filtering scheme. Senator the Hon. Stephen Conroy Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy Level 4, 4 Treasury Place Melbourne Victoria, 3002 Dear Minister, As an [...]

I want a version of Skype that doesn’t suck.

To be fair to the MacOS team that works on Skype they’ve got a lot of things spot on. Skype for MacOS X is a Cocoa app and it feels good, it works well with other programs and on the whole it fits in. There are a couple of things about it which annoy the [...]