Author Archives: Michael Wyres

Newsreader Revenge

Everyone remembers the “giant seagull” which “attacked” Peter Hitchener at the beginning of a recent Nine News Melbourne bulletin. It went viral almost immediately. Well, “Hitch” has had his revenge. Sort of. Courtesy of Melbourne’s Channel 31 program, “The Inquiry”. Kinda cheesy, but humourous nonetheless!

Foxtel EPG: Invisible Program

Got a bit of a laugh out of this in the Foxtel EPG last night. An invisible program! It has no title, no description, and runs from 9:25pm until 9:25pm, complete with the option of setting a reminder to watch it. I wonder if we had iQ, if it would have let me record it? […]

Idiotic View in Internet Copyright Case

A seriously stupid view of the various responsibilities involved in digital copyright infringement has been put “on the record” during closing arguments in the landmark Australian federal court case been the film industry, and the Australian ISP iiNet. Film Studios Issue Ultimatum to ISPs The film industry has “decreed” that ISPs should “get serious” about […]

Melbourne Under Attack from Japan!

Well…perhaps not REALLY. But this rain radar image from today shows a heavy band of rain, shaped very much like the country of Japan! Similar?

Error Error?

I noticed the following Microsoft patch applied itself to my laptop this morning. Interestingly, without the patch “Control Panel will incorrectly display an error message”. Incorrectly display? As in, in error? So that makes it an erroneous error. It reminds of the message I saw on a Sun Xterm many moons ago – “Error – […]

Taxi Makes Improvements to Train Station

According to the sign on the barrier, this Melbourne taxi made some significant improvements to Southern Cross Station! I’m sure the driver, passenger, and people on the footpath weren’t so sure about the term “improvement”, but I got a laugh out of the placement of the signs. Two Injured in CBD Taxi Crash

Journalistic Substance

Congratulations to Danny Lannen of the Geelong Advertiser for winning an award for his coverage of the terribly sad case of Chanelle Rae. Online bullying is a desperately serious issue for the world. Addy Journalist Danny Lannen Wins News Award Perhaps some of his colleagues at the Addy should take a leaf out of his […]

Red Is Back!

After three lean years in which it has missed out on glory in the biggest motor racing event in this country, the Bathurst 1000, Holden roared back to victory lane yesterday with a dominant result which left the rival Ford teams in their wake. The official Holden Racing Team took out the victory – leading […]

Thermonuclear Explosion!

Great. Geelong won the AFL Grand Final on the weekend. Kudos. Congratulations, and well done. As an Essendon supporter – and having seen my team win four times in my lifetime – I know the joy the fans are feeling right now. Celebrate, absolutely. However, the “media” in this town just never seem to have […]

Juvenile Attacks?

Well, well, well. Stephen Conroy thinks that recent hacking attacks on federal government websites were juvenile – given that they were reportedly made in response to the government plan to introduce mandatory net filtering. Conroy Says Website Attacks Juvenile Perhaps he should be listening to the message? That people don’t want this? Too sensible to […]