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The Broken Interweb

Colin — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:10:17 +0000

What an exciting afternoon, with Twitter down, Facebook struggling and Flickr hiccupping. Turns out that Twitter was being DDos’ed… no idea on Facebook or Flickr.

What more could you want from a day? Begs the question why the hell I’m writing about this…

Some Twitter coverage here on their blog, their status blog and on Wired. Facebook stuff can be read about on Mashable and I think I made up the rest.

Ciao.

Melbourne Day 5 – The MCG

Colin — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:34:49 +0000

What a strike of luck! Had been planning on heading over to the MCG today for a look around, when looking into the tour I read something about not getting a full tour on event days so hoped that today wasn’t an event day… But it was, and that’s the luck, Victoria vs Queensland in the final game in the Sheffield Shield. The play was terrible, final day of a four dayer and Victoria were still batting in their first innings, got themselves up to 800 (no idea why) before declaring 500 runs ahead leaving no reason for Queensland to do anything but block out for 60 overs.

Photo show, as I realised I haven’t put many pretty pictures up for a while, here’s the view and excitement on approach:

Once inside, which for the record only cost $5 to get in, you see the insane size of the place:

A cauldron of sport! Can only imagine watching a test match with 100k people there etc. There are loads more pictures on Flickr here. The only play which I feel is worthy of note here is the little slideshow below. Andrew Symonds was playing for Queensland after being dropped from Australia team due to going fishing instead of showing up for a game. Watch him comically drop one…

ShoZu Update

Colin — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:14:59 +0000

Now I’m an avid ShoZu user, if you check out my Flickr account you will see that almost all of my photos are uploaded using it. The only time I don’t is when I am in the States and the data charges would be astronomical. The point I am getting to however is that I only use if for Flickr uploads, as this is all I could see/had heard it did. Now I read this update announcement from ShoZu HQ (I read about it via Darla) and it would appear that there are A LOT more things it can do. Darla’s fav is the new Ovi integration, maybe I should start using my Ovi Share account more?ShoZu also allows direct uploads to Reuters “You Witness News”, basically become your very own citizen journalist.

P.s. Sorry for repost, had to add a piccie