Meet Southern Cross Station: a now familiar landmark for all Melburnians. Her early years were difficult as she had a bad reputation to shake off, but after a few good years, it appears that her masters want to drag her name through the mud again.
Archive for September, 2011
Who’s behind WordPress comment spam?
September 5th, 2011
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I’ve discussed comment spamming previously – automatically generated comments that are posted to blogs in an attempt to game the Google search rankings. Now meet the person responsible for it.
Funeral for a cathode ray tube
September 2nd, 2011
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Melbourne is currently in the middle of the changeover to digital television, with the original analogue system to be turned off in December 2013, leaving millions of older televisions with cathode ray tubes on the scrapheap. So how to get rid of them?