Posted in Ramblings on Aug 17th, 2007 No Comments »
A 21-year-old man from the the western Sydney suburb of Prairiewood faces up to five years imprisonment after he was charged with uploading a pirated copy of The Simpsons Movie on the internet.
Police alleged the man illegally filmed the movie via a mobile phone on July 26, the first day of release, [...]
Posted in Win Stuff on Aug 16th, 2007 No Comments »
Like the Win a 24″LCD blog I posted earlier, here’s another awesome blog contest on offer currently.
JohnCow.com is offering its readers the chance to win an iPhone, win a Playstation3, Wii or an XBox360 by giving away this $500 prize. The prizes have been generously donated by their web hosting provider, possibly one of the [...]
Posted in Win Stuff on Aug 16th, 2007 No Comments »
Some guy called John Chow over at John Chow dot Com is holding another evil blog contest. Until last week I knew nothing about him, but I’m told he is pure evil.
Anyways, he’s giving away the chance to win a 24? wide screen LCD monitor and a signed copy of the best [...]
Posted in Blogs, The Net on Aug 16th, 2007 No Comments »
Two Dutch news bloggers caught filming under women’s skirts in a car park in order to warn the public of the intimate views afforded by see-through stairs must appear in court, according to their blog.
A court spokesman in Alkmaar, where the pair have been called to appear in October, said they had been charged with [...]
Posted in Facebook on Aug 16th, 2007 No Comments »
Strict privacy settings on social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook mean little when users are all too willing to accept strangers as friends, security firm Sophos says.
An online experiment conducted by the firm found over 40 per cent of Facebook users would accept a “friend request” from a complete stranger and, of those people, [...]
Posted in Medical, Ramblings on Aug 15th, 2007 No Comments »
Everyone knows someone who is affected by cancer at some stage of their life. Here’s one form of cancer that has surfaced in Australia (and the world) over the years and concluded with some very big legal cases and compensation payouts.
Mesothelioma
Mesothelioma is a rare form of cancer that is almost always caused by previous [...]
Posted in Games, The Net on Aug 15th, 2007 No Comments »
On a personal note I was very glad to hear today that Microsoft are dropping the price of the Xbox 360 by $100 - yippee!! Downside is it still costs $579.95 for the pro version, while the core version, (which lacks a hard drive and the wireless controllers) can now be purchased for $399.95 [...]
Posted in Music, Youtube on Aug 14th, 2007 No Comments »
In today’s ramble I thought it would be nice to share one of my all time favourite music clips - Teardrop by Massive Attack. You know the awesome clip with the baby floating around inside its mother’s stomach. Totally amazing!
What makes this clip special?
Well, back in October 2006 my son was born and [...]
Posted in Ramblings on Aug 13th, 2007 No Comments »
My very first post, Welcome to Daily Web Ramblings, mentioned that I am from Australia. For those who know very little about Australia, then consider this a little history lesson from me to you.
It’s a beautiful country with endless sunbaked horizons, dense tropical rainforests, chilly southern beaches. By far the biggest attraction is [...]
Posted in Ramblings on Aug 13th, 2007 No Comments »
When deciding to start Daily Web Ramblings I was confronted with the decision of what blog application I should choose. At the end of the day the decision was a no brainer - Wordpress. Why, because of the sheer amount of free quality themes available to download. Most of the work has [...]
