Why your life can’t be completely online yet: Cameron Reilly on what happens when the only copy of your flight details are in your Gmail… and Gmail goes down. (Hey Cam, look on the bright side — assuming you knew you weren’t flying out of Avalon, there’s only a handful of possible airlines you could have been travelling with, and their terminals at MEL are pretty close together. Are you a fast runner?)
Monthly Archives: March 2006
Copyright, shmopyright
Lots of information on Australian copyright law, sorted into handy fact sheets.
- recording TV programmes — it’s not actually strictly legal, even for timeshifting
- ripping your own CDs to another format — also not legal
, unless the CD is no longer commercially available(Whoops, I misread that). Though the sheet falls down on claiming there are legal avenues to buy MP3s… nah… AACs, WMAs, but not MP3s - perhaps slightly bizarrely, information on line dancing