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From an internal email (names etc removed): Dear %%%%%%%%%% This problem was created by  incorrect network configuration inside the Dodo ISP network. Essentially Dodo received the global Internet table from Telstra then proceeded to advertise this to OPTUS. Since our … Continue reading →

Letter writing and the stamp of history | Kathryn Hughes http://gu.com/p/35jfx Postal services are dying. Few if anyone sends letters or bills by post, and have you tried to buy adsend a postcard recently? What’s not been discussed is the … Continue reading →

I was surfing the web checking out cheap 7 inch tablets when I happened across this Wholesale – Macbook Air 13.3 N450 Laptops Notebook Computer 1.67G CPU 1GB DDR2 160GB XP Systerm sample | DHgate.com. Of course it’s not a … Continue reading →

The first typewriters were in the main women, who were paid to operate the fiendish machine and act as some sort of amanuesis, as the great man dictated his thoughts. This of course had all sorts of implications for society, … Continue reading →

Bruthen Post Office, a photo by moncur_d on Flickr. Wonderful example of mid twentieth century official architecture looking as if it had been transported from the English Home Counties to somewhere in the middle of Gippsland in Victoria …

As part of the ‘not just travel writers’ strand I was reading Darren Wershler-Henry’s history of typewriters over the weekend and he makes the point that in Dracula – written in 1897 – the protagonists make extensive use of typewriters … Continue reading →

The birth of the modern is of course marked by the long wars, where not only where there new ways of killing, but new ways of reporting the killing. Again the portable typewriter, the small format camera, allowed a change … Continue reading →

On the back of the social media withdrawal and SOPA memes have you ever searched for ‘typewriter’ on ebay? I just did, and there’s scads of them at fairly substantial prices, meaning people must buy them, but who? I can … Continue reading →

Over on my other blog I detailed my admittedly sketchy go publishing a book with Amazon Kindle publishing. At the end of the post I also included a link to an article from the Australian on the near death experience … Continue reading →

It’s not really funny to mock other people’s mistakes, but this one is kind of irresistable: Japanese Department Store May Want to Look Up the Word ‘Fucking’.