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stuff in my itunes i’d rather not broadcast i have….

October 7, 2008 // Comments

so i am sitting here in sydney at our excellent friend’s house claude & keren’s in the western hills suburb of seven hills… i am checking the intertubes and i wander over to my blog {this one you are reading now} and i can see that my “recently listened to” Last FM widget is listing songs by DIDDY… hmmmm… i’m not home in front of my iMac that feeds my last.fm account, so who is? i think what is happening is that benita has been playing one of her favourites Deitrick Haddon and she has walked out of the house and left iTunes playing… sigh…. let’s see what crazy stuff gets dredged up today…

i apologise in advance for the embarrassing music in my itunes collection.

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trip south october 2008

October 1, 2008 // Comments

i’m gonna take a break from my photo website search out for a week - {lot’s of interesting news on that tip} - because it’s that time of year again! the first weekend in october is a long weekend in NSW and for the last 20 some years it has been the weekend of The Black Stump Music Festival! And this year is a big change for me in relation to the “stump”, this is the first year in a very long time {a decade} that i am not involved in any way of organizing anything there. i have been handing over all those “mustard” responsibilities this year… it’s been hard and good and i’m still in the process of handing over. i am passing the batton to the Krosswerdz Sydney team: namely three of my best friends- Mistery, Oakbridge & Kristy D. a few big steps of that handing on process will happen this week. Blackstump for one, and secondly we have a meeting with our record label’s distributer and explaining the change and laying out a plan for them to exclusively distribute the entire new Krosswerdz Record Label.

and as if that isn’t busy enough 6 days, this coming saturday i wake up very early and fly out of sydney down to melbourne where i will be photographing a wedding on the day! this is a last minute booking {2 weeks ago!}, but it should be a really cool wedding. the couple loves my work so that is always a big help. i will try and catch up with the werribee cronies that night, sleep in geelong and then get up early sunday morning and fly back up to sydney and back out to the stump…

and i am going to be up most of the night trying to get a few clients jobs out of the door before i go!

so i will be updating the blog when i can, i will be Pinging, Twittering & Flickring as usual… stay tuned!

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yahoo: the worst customer support ever?

September 27, 2008 // Comments

in light of me writing to all these photo storing / sales websites and getting back some great / good customer support responses… i turn to a company that has probably the very worst in customer support and general helpfulness: Yahoo!.

For starters let me state the obvious: the user experience with Yahoo is HORRIFIC. the main yahoo home page is like someone ate every magazine and newspaper in the store and then threw up a website. it is totally confusing, services all over the place, news, weather, ads… but the worst thing is the stupid “region” thing. i get to experience the scintillating “YAHOO!7″: australia’s version of yahoo. i don’t want to experience the dumb aussie site just because i am in australia! anyway, i don’t want to talk about that today, i want to talk about my experience with Yahoo! 360°….

when Yahoo! 360° first started i joined up and played with it for a few months, got bored and then i deleted my account. {mistake} but recently, due to great usefull services like Ping.fm, Yahoo! 360° is looking like it might be fun to use. so i head over to sign up and basically i can’t {details later}, so after trying everything i can, i look for help and the closest thing to help i can find is “Yahoo! Answers”, where yahoo get’s everyday schmucks to answer their help calls for them. i could find people who had the same problem, but nothing i could find in the “answers” actually helped. so i asked my own question {after being forced to “join” answers} - and you can read it “after the jump”-

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Bono has the quote of the month.

September 26, 2008 // Comments

Crisis no excuse to ignore poverty: Bono on Reuters.

from the story: {emphasis from me}
“The U.S. financial crisis making global waves is no excuse for governments and companies to walk away from helping the world’s poor, former U.S. President Bill Clinton and rocker Bono said on Wednesday.
As Congress debates a White House-proposed $700 billion bailout for the worst financial crisis since the Depression of the 1930s, Bono questioned why wealthy countries had not been able to come up with enough aid for the world’s problems.
“It is extraordinary to me that you can find $700 billion to save Wall Street and the entire G8 can’t find $25 billion to save 25,000 children who die every day of preventable treatable disease and hunger,” the U2 lead singer told Clinton’s fourth annual philanthropic summit in New York. “That’s mad, that is mad.”
The Group of Eight wealthy nations vowed in 2005 to raise annual aid levels $50 billion by 2010, $25 billion of which was to go to Africa. But under current spending plans, the G8 will fall $40 billion short, according to a June report by the Africa Progress Panel set up to monitor implementation.
“Bankruptcy is a serious business and we all know people who have lost their jobs,” Bono said, referring to the bankruptcy declared by Wall Street investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. “But this is moral bankruptcy.”