From the monthly archives:

March 2008

Stream your own mp3s with the Google Reader player

by Shane Perris on Saturday, 29 March, 2008

in how-to, tutorials

Many of you will, at some stage of your life, want to host and stream your own mp3 file of some sort. Some of you will want to host a podcast (egads! don’t do that on your own sever! Use a content distribution network or risk having your bandwidth devastated the minute you get [...]

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Server problems

by Shane Perris on Thursday, 13 March, 2008

in administrivia

UPDATE 15/3/08: everything seems to be fixed now, but if you had any bookmarks they might not work. You may wish to bookmark any pages again. Sorry for the inconvenience and I’m looking into setting up some redirects as well.
A quick spot of housekeeping to say that I’m currently experiencing server problems and that everything [...]

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Mobbing the echo chamber

by Shane Perris on Wednesday, 12 March, 2008

in opinions

Two issues dominated the tech blogosphere this week:

Jason Calacanis dared to suggest that people working for a startup might need a different work ethic to someone punching in 9-5; and
Business journalist Sarah Lacy apparently bombed an interview with Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, at the South by Southwest (SxSW) conference (remember when SxSW used to [...]

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Joomla! is a free and open source content management system with just about everything a webmaster could ask for.  Originally created as a fork of the Mambo content management system (see how to install Mambo on Windows for more information on Mambo), Joomla! has since grown to become a full system in its own right [...]

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Why Nine Inch Nails is NOT the future model of music

by Shane Perris on Wednesday, 5 March, 2008

in opinions

Trent Reznor, the creative force behind Nine Inch Nails, has caused a stir with the release of the new NIN album ‘Ghosts I-IV‘. True to recent form (including berating record labels over pricing of NIN product and encouraging fans at a concert in Sydney to steal his music [language warning]), ‘Ghosts’ has been released online [...]

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