...and as always I'm at the forefront! I find it hard to believe that I used to run seminars back in 1994 telling roomfulls of sceptical managers that the Web was going to be massive and they needed to adapt to it or their businesses would suffer...

We have all but given up watching live tv. The endless ads which begin with 'as a busy Aussie mum' were driving me to distraction and it took a good three hours to get to the end of a 90 min movie thanks to the ads, sports updates, news updates, trailers for My Kitchen Rules and shows about fat people. We now buy boxsets or download stuff. I'm not in favour of downloading but sorry guv, Australian TV drove me to it! Thankfully the baseball season started yesterday so it'll be mlb.tv for us until October

I've done it recently with 3D printing - its been a slow burn (I've an object from 1990s), but with the virtualisation of the world, it now makes some serious disruptive sense.

Season 3 has been pretty intense and very good TBH. It's following a different story arc to the comics (if you have ever read any of them) but I quite like the bleak outlook of it and the fact that there is rarely a happy ending. It's very different from stuff like Star Trek and Stargate where everything is always wrapped up in a single (or occasionally double) episode.



Gerry Harvey's still sitting there...


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True, yesterday's man, selling his overpriced shit to the same people who watch the old fashioned commercial TV stations. He'll be bust soon enough.

You knock me for the mighty MKR but then go on to recommend Jonathan Creek

Pots and kettles flying all over the place.

Interesting article:
http://www.news.com.au/technology/bi...-1226610889872

I was reading that myself and realised that even though Foxtel are showing it so soon after HBO, it's on one of their movie channels despite the fact it's not a movie. F**k em, I'm going to download it tonight, preferably in Hi Def if I can.

eztv ftw...


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Funnily enough, my MIL and FIL were here for a few weeks and expressed great surprise at the standard of Australian TV. Or rather...the lack of any decent standards!! They found the Today Tonight show laughable and thought it was a satire

Haha. Reminds me of The Day Today and Brass Eye.

"Cake is a made up drug!"


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Why has nobody here done a satire on Today Tonight? It would be so easy to push it that extra inch into straight up ludicrousness.

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Well OK, even further into it, so people really notice .....

I suspect that because deep down inside they know that most people would fail to see the satire...


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That program is The Daily Mail of TV. It's only purpose it to let middle-aged, middle-class white people tut and shake their heads at the screen

I have a strict policy with OS visitors - no TV shall be watched while they are under my roof

I thought it was directed at battlers, so they could add another battle to their list.
'they reckon, I heard'.....