Rob Masters

I'm excited - I just ordered a model B Raspberry Pi. http://raspberrypi.org

Oh, and a portable phone can be added to that list :) Originally shared by Wade Inganamort Adjusted for inflation, the standard features that come with every smartphone would have cost almost a million dollars in the 1980s.

As others have said: Stop what you are doing and read this. Originally shared by Jeff Jarvis *Leave Our Net Alone*" The internet’s not broken. So then why are there so many attempts to regulate it? Under the guises of piracy, privacy, pornography, predators, indecency, and security, not to mention censorship, tyranny, and civilization, governments from the U.S. to France to Germany to China to Iran to Canada — as well as the European Union and the United Nations — are trying to exert control over the internet. Why? Is it not working? Is it presenting some new danger to society? Is it fundamentally operating any differently today than it was five or ten years ago? No, no, and no. So why are governments so eager to claim authority over it? Why would legacy corporations, industries, and institutions egg them on? Because the net is working better than ever. Because they finally recognize how powerful it is and how disruptive it is to their power. And that is precisely why we must figh...

LJ member blamebrampton again turns the ALP leadership circus into a hilarious Harry Potter pastiche, with Kevin as Harry, Julia as Hermione, Abbot as Crabbe, and host of others. She also (in the comments) makes one of the most succinct observations about Australian politics I have ever read: "Australian politicians are like a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta. On crack. Quite good fun for the most part ..." http://blamebrampton.livejournal.com/238695.html

Discs on the Green 2012 - the first tournament of the PDGC calendar, held at Perry Lakes in Perth.