Friday, 31 July 2015

Sport and Racism in Australia

I'm going to add my voice to the Adam Goodes "debate". I say "debate" in "inverted commas" because it shouldn't really be a debate.

This shit is racist.

Sunday, 26 July 2015

Friday, 17 July 2015

NRL Season Schedule Proposal

An article in Monday's SMH by Brad Walter highlighted an interesting problem the NRL currently has around scheduling - State of Origin is very successful commercially, but it's success is now detracting from the NRL competition that should be the foundation of professional rugby league in Australia.

Wednesday, 15 July 2015

The iiNet Story

When we moved just before Christmas, we decided to shop around for home internet. We elected to sign a 24 month contract with iiNet.

This was a terrible error of judgment.


The following is a full chronological account of my experiences with iiNet. It is long, but this is legitimately the minimum amount of words I could use to document every moment of incompetence.


iiNet - a #2. Finally, truth in advertising.

Sunday, 5 July 2015

Cold Sport Newz~!

Cold rather than hot because some of this is old newz~!

This edition features a selection of stuff I wanted to rant about over the last few months but it was too hard due to experiencing "technical difficulties" still not fully resolved.

(There will be a story about that debacle when it is fully resolved. Unless something radically changes, it's not going to be very favourable to companies represented in advertising by smug Irish backpackers wearing bad sweaters.)

Let's get to the newz~!