Totally awesome to see Matthew Moore covering OpenAustralia’s efforts to bring the register of members’ interests to the web:
Given the fortunes spent in the nation’s Parliament, and Kevin Rudd’s professed desired for more transparency in government, it seems absurd that volunteers are left to do the job any self-respecting parliament would have done long ago.
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Monthly Archives: December 2008
More mainstream media love for OpenAustralia
WordPress 2.7 released!
WordPress 2.7 is an awesome release. The revision of the admin backend, despite being so soon after the changes in 2.5, is fantastic… particularly for “real users”. I enjoyed putting forward my blunt perspective on the issue while Matt and Jane were in the crowd at WordCamp Australia. Developers and contributors don’t hear “you’re doing […]
Recursive get with lftp
If you’re trying to figure out how to recursively download a directory with lftp, the wonderful command-line FTP and SFTP client, this is what you want:
mirror <directory>
… and that’s that. Hopefully this will be more helpful to someone than the current Google documentation results.
Update: Thanks to molok in the comments, here’s how you […]





