Okay, I’ll bite:
stanley: ~
$ history|awk ‘{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’|sort -rn|head
201 host
46 bzr
43 ls
40 cd
32 sudo
22 vi
19 scp
12 clear
11 ./push-live
9 wget
Amusing aberration at the top there.
Back off, China tells Rudd on eve of visit
“Mr Rudd’s hardline approach comes amid Opposition claims that he is too close to China.” — Our newly minted opposition just can’t catch a break, no matter what they try.
(tags: kevinrudd china brendannelson liberal labor australia politics)
‘Ms Fits’ named top blogger
“Marieke Hardy’s blog, Reasons You Will Hate Me, has […]
Time for a little perspective on the Open Source industry in Australia… Yesterday, the ABS shipped some findings about digital game development companies:
At end June 2007, there were 45 businesses in Australia involved in the provision of digital game development services. These businesses employed over 1,400 people and generated a total income of $136.9m which represented […]
US software lock-ins harm local bidders
“There should be an insistence now at the policy level on open standards, thereby limiting the capture proprietary software companies have had in the past,” [Senator Lundy] said.
(tags: katelundy waughpartners opensource openstandards australia government policy)
Aussie open source report now a free download
“Sydney-based open source research firm Waugh Partners has published […]
So when Tim O’Reilly pimped MarkMail a few weeks ago, with a post about their huge Perl mail archive import, I liked what I saw.
But it wasn’t just that. I also wondered how much we kicked Perl’s arse. Or, put more diplomatically… I wondered what the difference might be between two large, mature FLOSS projects.
Of course, GNOME […]
While I share some disappointment in the lack of technology practitioners at the Australia 2020 Summit, I’m tickled pink to be presenting today at a feeder event, organised by the very mavenly Senator Kate Lundy.
Foundations of Open: Technology and Digital Knowledge features some familiar faces, and some fresh ones — all in all, an awesome group of people […]
Ridiculous, amusing, inconvenient and even plain worrying things tend to happen in the lead-up to Important Events For Which You Have Planned. Sometimes a certain amount of irony is involved, sometimes it’s Murphy’s law.
I have selected four examples of these sorts of events from today. There were many more, of course, but here are four:
Pia goes to […]
EPIC FAIL: Australia fails to take a position on OOXML, abstains on final OOXML vote.
It’s disappointing that while our Prime Minister travels the world with a stated intention to increase Australia’s influence and activism on the global stage, we at home have failed so miserably to come to a conclusion — positive or negative — about OOXML.
As a participant on the […]
