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Spam Art

Posted on February 21, 2014 by Stephen Dawson

The motivations of spammers are clear: they’re hoping to worm their way onto a blog or into someone’s consciousness in order to attract business. But why would anyone think that an attempted blog comment consisting of almost nothing but 1 … Continue reading →

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569

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Stephen Dawson

That’s the number of spam comments for one post that Akismet has rejected from just one blog post buy levitra cheap , I see. All were (attempted to be) posted in the last eight hours. Something about the title or … Continue reading →

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Canberra ‘Elite’ Cabs

Posted on April 30, 2013 by Stephen Dawson

Here’s a message that I tried to submit to Canberra ‘Elite’ Taxis this evening: Yet again the web booking system will not work for me. I enter the details Koupit Lioresal v Praze Buy Amoxil UK If you are selling, … Continue reading →

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The end of a mini-era

Posted on April 15, 2013 by Stephen Dawson

I’ve been doing a column in The Canberra Times for fifteen years. Today is the last one. The paper is now owned by Fairfax, a company which seems to be trying to tighten its belt, so from now on the … Continue reading →

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Spam

Posted on January 11, 2013 by Stephen Dawson

Every so often I clean out the spam ‘comments’ on this blog. These are captured very effectively by a plug-in called Akismet. Which is just as well. Because do you have any idea of the size of the problem? On … Continue reading →

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I’m now translated

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Stephen Dawson

My woefully out of of date Dictionary of Home Entertainment has been translated into Finnish (with my permission). See it at www.designcontest.com/show/dictionary-hifi-fi. antibiotika-online.com

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Two3 many bits used to encode sound? I say yes!

Posted on April 15, 2012 by Stephen Dawson

A while back I analysed the lossless audio encoding of a few hundred Blu-ray discs. The aim? To find out how efficient lossless compression of 24 bit audio was compared to 16 bit. The results were not entirely unexpected. The … Continue reading →

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Speakers, from the tiny to the tremendous

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Stephen Dawson

I’ve done some more stuff for cnet.com.au. One lot is seven sets of USB speakers for your computer. Tiny little things with a couple of watts of power available, at most. They’re not all up yet, but here are a … Continue reading →

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Hope you like the new look

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Stephen Dawson

Actually, it’s an old look because it’s the WordPress Twenty Ten template, with my own minimalist graphic. A bit more spread out, and a little bit cleaner.

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Lots and lots of comments

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Stephen Dawson

The other day I mentioned that I had a political piece on the ABC website: Unleashed. That piece, called ‘The real defence exception’, now has 454 comments. Having a look through them was pretty instructive, I thought. Have a look … Continue reading →

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