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• Tell me boys and girls

  By tigtog on 2007-06-27

  How much do we hate people who don’t program bandwidth auto-notification emails properly? For the last few days I have been receiving ever more frequent missives telling me that I had used 80% of my allocated bandwidth for the month…. Read More ›

• Who do we trust more to Do It Right?

  By tigtog on 2007-06-26 • ( 17 )

  I said this in comments on a previous post regarding the NT Indigenous Emergency Plan, and I want to expand on the theme, as it feels like some electoral scales may have fallen from my eyes. I really want all… Read More ›

• Dear regular commentors

  By tigtog on 2007-06-26

  Fancy popping up a guest post or two at Hoyden next week? I’ve got school holiday shenanigans to cope with, and won’t have as much time to write next week (or the week after, come to that). Posts don’t have… Read More ›

• Hating on “contextual” advertising

  By tigtog on 2007-06-26 • ( 2 )

  The way much online advertising is structured to respond to words used in text on the page, all in the service of consumerism, is often jarring. Fat-acceptance blogs, for instance, tend not to have such advertising (which would help them… Read More ›

• More on Howard’s Indigenous Emergency Measures

  By tigtog on 2007-06-25 • ( 10 )

  Andrew Bartlett has the best response I’ve read so far, with David Tiley‘s a close second. Bartlett is hopeful that despite understandable cynicism about the effectiveness of measures proposed with such an intersection of cynical politicising and inadequate planning or… Read More ›

• Soundbite shortcomings in a nutshell

  By tigtog on 2007-06-25 • ( 4 )

  Because this blog discusses sexuality, sexual violence, homosexuality and gendered insults etc with the intent to inform, a ratings system based on words alone gets us lumped in with sites that are nothing but sexual titillation and/or gender vilification. Mingle2… Read More ›

• Sexual assault medicine in crisis in regional NSW

  By tigtog on 2007-06-24 • ( 1 )

  Fancy driving a round trip of 700km for a forensic medical examination after being raped? That’s what rape victims in central NSW are facing due to NSW Health’s refusal to pay the standard call-out rate for medical practitioners who are… Read More ›

• Simple changes could end discrimination for thousands of Australian couples

  By tigtog on 2007-06-23

  This press release from the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC), dated 21 June 2007, has largely gone off the media radar due to Howard’s Indigenous Emergency plan hogging all the limelight: Changing the definitions describing de facto… Read More ›

• For my librarian friends

  By tigtog on 2007-06-22

  Even I think this is uncalled for. Image Credit: xkcd.com

• Cheers and jeers: rape edition

  By tigtog on 2007-06-22 • ( 2 )

  Cheers for Thailand and Jeers for Jerry Seinfeld.