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28 Jun 09 Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-28

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25 Jun 09 Microsoft drives nails in its own coffin

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Does the release of products like Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Internet Explorer 8 represent a massive blunder for Microsoft, or do the new innovations included in these software packages represent the way forward?  It might all depend on who you ask.   Users who have not spent a great deal of time using previous versions of Microsoft software may well like the new versions.  There are surely some new features which can be quite cool such as very nifty formatting effects.  Users who have become familiar with previous versions over the years are coming to quite different conclusions.  I am in the latter group and Microsoft’s new line is certainly not getting an A from me.

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24 Jun 09 Islamic burka “not welcome” in France: Sarkozy

burkaFrench President Nicolas Sarkozy has said the Islamic burka is “not welcome” in France.

“The burka is not a sign of religion, it is a sign of subservience… It will not be welcome on the territory of the French republic… We cannot accept to have in our country women who are prisoners behind netting, cut off from all social life, deprived of identity… That is not the idea that the French republic has of women’s dignity.” source: smh.com.au June 23, 2009 - 7:02AM

It seems rather ironic that after decades of controversy over women wearing too few clothes in public there is now controversy over women wearing too many clothes.  The irony is further heightened by the amount of flesh the French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has bared for the cameras.

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22 Jun 09 The New Twitterfeed: a Huge Improvement

twitter rssI was delighted when I first came across Twitterfeed.  The ability to automatically send any RSS feed to twitter as a series of tweets was very appealing to me.  For readers who have absolutely no idea what I’m talking about, what I mean is that updates to an RSS feed (produced by blog posts or comments for example) can be automatically tweeted by adding feeds to a Twitterfeed account.  However, over time, Twitterfeed seemed to become slower and less reliable.  It seemed that not all rss updates were tweeted and that the time delay between updating the feed and the actual tweet became inordinately long.  I was recently pleased to find that Twitterfeed has revamped it’s site completely.  For those who have been using Twitterfeed in its previous incarnation, don’t worry; all your feeds can easily be transferred to your new account.

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21 Jun 09 Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-21

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14 Jun 09 Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-14

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07 Jun 09 Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-07

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31 May 09 Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-31

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30 May 09 Turnbull’s battlers might have to wait a little longer

malcolm turnbull warpedJoe Hockey recently told ABC TV’s ‘Lateline’ program that Malcolm Turnbull’s ability to make money in an economic downturn makes him an ideal priministerial candidate: “From my perspective if there’s someone out there that’s made money over the past 12 months they’re exactly the right person to run the country..”  When Mr Turnbull took over as leader of the Liberal Party last year, he made much of his childhood living with his divorced father in rented flat.  He presumably did this in order to give people with means less substantial than his (and there are a great many of them) that he understands what it means to be a ‘battler’.  Mr Turnbull was recently listed at 182 on the annual BRW list of Australia’s richest 200 people with an estimated fortune of $178 million - a figure the former merchant banker described as “speculative”. source: AAP

It seems that Mr Turnbull initially saw his vast wealth as something of an impediment to his priministerial ambitions, but now thinks it might be put to his advantage.  At least, his shadow treasurer seems to think so, but does Mr Hockey really expect people to swallow this exceptionally dubious line of reasoning?

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24 May 09 Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-24

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