Obscure Box

Is it me, or is does it seem to take longer each day for certain software to open on Microsoft machines? You click on a document icon and nothing appears to happen. You click again. Then again. Then again. Finally the egg-timer appears but this seems to slow the system even further. Finally your Word [...]

Details of the new global Monopoly board have been revealed and the only Australian city to make it is Sydney. Hardly surprising really. The national capital Canberra never really stood a chance. The New South Wales Premier Morris Iemma is crowing in The Australian’s report “Sydney monopolises world Monopoly spot” (Wednesday 20 August 2008). “Eat [...]

Here’s one out of left-field. The Beijing Olympics are now being blamed for a slump in Australia’s wool prices! The ABC’s report “Olympic Games blamed for slump in wool prices” (Wednesday 13 August 2008) says prices have dropped 200 cents a kilo to just 830 cents. (That’s a drop of $2 to $8.30/kg in English.) [...]

Okay, not that disappointed. But rather than all this discussion in the media about what the street view should and shouldn’t show, wouldn’t it have been better if Google had told people exactly what day they were heading down your street. That way those that didn’t want to be shown could have hidden, but those [...]