From an article called What the Bubble Got Right, about the positive outcomes from the dotcom bubble.
5. Informality
In New York, the Bubble had dramatic consequences: suits went out of fashion. They made one seem old. So in 1998 powerful New York types were suddenly wearing open-necked shirts and khakis and oval wire-rimmed glasses, just like [...]

In Australia, there is a shortage of general practitioners, particularly in rural areas. According to a quick Google, there is actually an oversupply in urban areas, but in outer suburbs like where I live I don’t see it. Basically, it’s hard to get in to see a doctor on the day you are sick, [...]

Connor’s party is coming up this weekend. We’ve invited about ten kids, sent the invites a month ago roughly, and only one parent has responded. One!! Now there are a lot of old etiquette things that are just plain archaic and deserved to be dropped from modern society, but failing to RSVP is more [...]

Here on Neuromesh I’d like to explore some of the issues that truly polarise the nation, yea, even western society in general. Nope, not the US election, even though there are two main candidates, there are in fact a couple of other options that people will vote for. Likewise the Australian, preferential voting [...]

Christmas is coming, here’s a great idea for that special someone in your life. They also offer ‘Fight Club’ replica soap (as opposed to the soap in the movie, eww) “cleans up blood and is gentle on fresh wounds”.

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So here I am, PostNuke backended and completely boggled and having a bit too much fun playing with menus. There’s a few reasons for the new digs. A trivial one, but the first you’ll see, is the ability to run polls. They will mostly be pretty silly, and the vote you cast [...]

So I went and had a poke in the logs for our server, and discovered that my front page (what you are probably looking at) gets over 600 visits a month. Half of those are probably me on my way to the admin page, and I guess the rest are 10 people who [...]

Ahoy Matey!! Whiskeypig Jake be talkin’ like a pirate fer years now! The crew of the Unicorn were terrible disappointed to find that the great day be fallin’ on a Sunday this year. Buckets o’ blood, there be nobody on deck to be talkin’ like a pirate to on a Sunday. I’ll have to [...]

Gandy and Roberts is a structural engineering consulting firm in Hobart, that I came across in some random surfing. They’ve done work on the Hobart Mall, Woolstore Hotel, BBC Hardware in Kingsmeadows, and mediaeval siege weaponry.
Yes that’s right. Like any good geek they’ll take a random idea and apply their mighty brains to a [...]