A search-engine works by cataloguing content available on the internet by third-party publishers. Some of those third-party publishers may indeed by subsidiary companies of the search-engine itself, but by and large the content is produced and hosted by publishers and web-hosting companies that have nothing to do with the search-engine company indexing the material for [...]

Last year I decided I’d had enough of manually defrosting my fridge and decided I wanted a new one. Remembering that I’d seen some decent prices on fridges down at Costco, I borrowed my mum’s station wagon and drove down. Once I arrived I got out the measuring tape and measured the dimensions of the [...]

A few months ago now, local Melbourne man Michael (Milorad) Trkulja launched a law suit against search engine giant Google. To cut a long story short, Trkulja is claiming that Google made him look like a criminal. By caching a third party website, when you searched Google for ‘Michael Trkulja’, the search results came up [...]

Simply put, Melbourne hasn’t had a decent run with landmarks for the better part of a decade. Federation Square is a jumbled mess of architectural vomit, nobody visits the docklands, the Southern Star Oberservation Wheel was a colossal failure and that giant space near the Yarra river, Birradungarunga-something-ma is nothing to write home about. Our [...]

Over the past few years I’ve become increasingly annoyed after reading story after story of Australia’s judges letting criminals off the hook. Despite serious crimes being committed and often the fact that it’s a reoffense, case after case is simply dismissed with suspended sentences or supervision orders. Thankfully however there appears to be at least [...]

Melissa Neylon was a passenger in her boyfriend’s car back in February 2009. Her boyfriend, Jayke Baldwin was speeding. Not surprisingly Baldwin eventually lost control of the car and hit a tree. Melissa presumably wasn’t wearing a seatbelt and was thrown out onto the road upon impact. The car Baldwin was driving then crushed her [...]

Despite having lived in Melbourne for nearly three decades I’d never heard of Macchour Chaouk until he was gunned down last week in his Brooklyn home in Melbourne’s west. Not knowing who Chaouk was, I paid little attention to the initial reports of his death. Some guy I’ve never heard of died in one of [...]

I’m a bit late to this one so you’ll have to forgive me. I got back from a weekend away and was checking my Twitter feed for anything interesting. One particular tweet from Wikileaks caught my eye; Hilarious WikiLeaks rap gets it right. Is comedy the only honest commentary? Hilarious Wikileaks rap? What did Wikileaks [...]

There are already places in Melbourne that I’d point blank refuse to live in. For the sake of simplicity let’s call it anywhere 10km out from the CBD. The reason? Bugger all infrastructure, extremely limited job opportunities (not everyone wants to be a carpenter, plumber or mechanic) and having to live with a bunch of [...]

Defamation is always going to be a tricky subject on the internet. For the most part you’ve got outdated laws policing a technological platform that didn’t even exist when they were drafted. Couple that with problematic worldwide jurisdiction, internet companies making billions and clueless internet users will dollar signs in their eyes and you’ve got [...]