Given the NSW's Government's betrayal of Illawarra residents and their decision to make the Highway through Heathcote more like a back street, it only seems fair that us poor suffering motorists should treat the back streets of Heathcote like a highway. Here's a map
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A week or so ago I wrote a letter to Paul McLeay, Minister for the Illawarra and Member for Heathcote, expressing concern that the proposal to implement a clearway at Heathcote was being derailed by a very noisy and small minority of people who would rather the 4th biggest road
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Recently, the RTA has taken steps to try and implement a Clearway on the Princes Highway at Heathcote. This is the 4th largest road into Australia's largest city, and should be treated as such - with a Clearway in the peak periods and a reasonable speed limit. Unfortunately,
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Came into the office today after being out for a few days and decided the desk needed a clean - you know, clear desk, clear mind, etc. In the process of tidying up the mess of cables you'll find on any self respecting geek's desk, I
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<Update> Dec 2012: So, it looks like Christmas has come early. As mentioned in my April update below, the SSN barrier has been impossible to overcome. Until now. Thankfully, the legends at Stripe (Disclosure - AffinityLive pays them a lot of money, they don't know we
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Shame on you, RTA and Paul McLeay. The fourth biggest road into our biggest city deserves better. Make it 70 and give us a clearway or lose your seat.
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I'm looking at moving my company's mobile phone services over to Telstra, and I wanted to do some checking of whether my new Nexus One (gift from GoogleIO 2010) was going to work on the NextG network. While some of the frequencies (2100MHz) overlap, my Nexus
Update: I think Facebook are onto this; luckystar_profile is just one app that is doing this (I've now seen many more), and all have been removed by Facebook. Unfortunately, the spam photo albums are still everywhere. Yesterday afternoon, I received a Facebook notification from a friend I
While I'd been meaning to play with Google's applications - and integrating them with our own Affinity - for some time, the launch of the Marketplace pushed this experimentation up the priority list. After spending a fair bit of time hacking on a Sunday, I'
This week, ICT Illawarra hosted Air Commodore Anker Brodersen, Director General Defence Preparedness, and his colleague, Rick Souness, who runs the Defence Materiel Office's (DMO) Business Access Office, as they ran a half day workshop and a follow up day and a half of one on one
A couple of good friends of mine, two of the warmest and most giving people in the Australian startup community got a big wet kiss - and a big cheque - after their startup, Tjoos.com, was acquired by Los Angeles based Internet Brands overnight. Founded by the necessity of
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While I'm sure the details will wash through over time, this story about Apple suing phone manufacturer HTC for Patent infringement really, really stinks. Compared to HTC, Apple is the new kid in the block. HTC has been manufacturing smartphones for longer than almost anybody. They were one