Okay, okay, I'm on a roll. No, no, just let me say it: This flick moves at the speed of life. No, seriously, I get it: if you don't quite know how to make a movie make people feel something, then SLOW IT DOWN. Even if they don't feel something, the slow pace will convince them that there's some prof...

What IS it with slow-ass, pseudo-profound, cinematography-porn, hapa flicks with the word "Life" in the title?...

One of the things that continually delights me about 'doing business online' is the rather more 'abundant' mindset which tends to go with it - compared with the 'scarcity' attitude so typical of 'old school', 'bricks and mortar' business where typically your competitors are 'The Enemy'. I used to wa...

The joke is so obvious, I'm almost ashamed to make it. But cut me some slack, I had to sit through two hours of this stuff: This movie doesn't have a running time, it has a half-life. Okay, I got it out. Now: it's not that bad. Yes, slow pacing is something American audiences are allergic to, but th...

When I was little I went to a nice school in a leafy suburb in Adelaide. It was the 1970s so we wore roman sandals and my uniform was pink with a zip down the front. What a crazy uniform. I think they have changed it to something far more conservative now. Roman sandals? The toe-jam was insane in...

I just downloaded an iso of Knoppix 6, which is now said to also good for netbooks and low-end machines. There’s always a chance to try out other Linux distros so I’d probably be busy trying to figure it out for myself tonight, if ever I encounter problems with it. But there’s actu...

Happy Sunday!  Happy International Women’s Day! We had friends (not tigers) visit for dinner tonight. I made lasagna again - and it was pretty delish. I am very big into the lasagna thing at the moment. It’s an adaptation of my Mum’s bestest recipe and my mate Kim’s bestest ...

Hello? iPhone? Originally uploaded by Douglas Porter Full disclaimer: I do not work at Apple. I never worked at Apple. Nor do I play an Apple exec on TV. I have thought long and hard about what it takes to create something like an iPhone, though. To create a product that people will love. Not in ter...

Claire Heffernan added an entry about to stop cutting myself: I only started doing this in the last few months because of a hard time in my life… i thought i was ok again but this week I started again because the diffculties in life came back! :( I sound so WEAK! it’s so annoying! I dont...

Nothing to do with social media per se... other than how I heard about this (saw Kick-Ass Karen Skidmore's tweet): There's a new TeleForum which many of you will want to know about... In How to Promote Your TeleSeminars Using Joint Ventures, Karen will be sharing, "What you need to know about using ...