hi there!
I see you've stumbled on to my humble home on the net, Drive:Activated. My name's Sam, I'm an ambitious and driven uni student, residing in Melbourne, Australia, wanting to make my mark on our world. This is my site, which is mainly just my blog and some other bits. There's no definite theme to my blog, just anything that interests me, and currently that's web trends, startups, ideas and cool stuff. Check it out, leave me a comment, click on 'Who is this?' to find out more about me, or drop me a line by clicking on 'Let's Talk'. Hope you enjoy it!
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I never thought this day would come, and it still isn't really here yet, but it's a promising start. I stumbled on to it while trying out their new 'beta' timetables (which are horribly broken in Firefox 3), so I assume it will be improved and officially announced soon. It works a lot...
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Just came back from Hong Kong a few days ago (hence the lack of posts), and what else do you do in Hong Kong apart from shop? Yep, I have to admit that I'm one of the few males that likes to shop. There I said it. And after spending 3 weeks there, it is quite obvious how far ahead their retail sector...
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This isn't the way I'd like to start the new year here, but it's creating a storm and it's something that has the potential to affect everyone as internet users. For those who have been out partying it up over the new year and haven't yet caught up with Australian news, Senator Conroy...
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With the view of going to RMIT next year (I've officially become a number there a few days), plus continuing work, I'm going to be spending a fair amount of time in transit. So I can fit everything in, and bypass RMIT's crappy internet rules (no non-RMIT email access allowed - WTF), I've...
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I've been having an email exchange about entrepreneurship in Australia, and I thought you guys may be interested. These are only my responses in the conversation. Australia and investment I think the recent re-explosion of web technology has come as a shock to VCs in Australia. US VC firms probably...
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Porn filters no barrier for net users "A MELBOURNE schoolboy has cracked the Federal Government's new $84 million internet porn filter in minutes... Tom, a year 10 student at a southeast Melbourne private school, showed the Herald Sun how to deactivate the filter in a handful of clicks. His...
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Welcome The Local readers! For those who don't know what I'm talking about: (preserved here as a trophy ; thanks Anthony for the shoutout, and Scienta for telling me!) Wow, what started off as a side project a few months ago has certainly grown a lot! I'm actually in the process of completing a fairly...
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I posted this on the aus-dotnet mailing list a few weeks ago, but didn't get many responses so I'm gonna repost it here and see how it goes: The list seems a bit slow this week, probably because all you guys are still recovering from Code Camp, or have decided to use your sick leave to take advantage...
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Via this engadget post, I found out about the Australian Design Awards - Student Award , and some of the designs are awesome. There's designs for chairs, helmets, bags, toilets, blood vessel sensors and others that seem to cover every category under the sun. I never thought we were much of an innovation...
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Opened without much fanfare (well, nothing I saw on mainstream media/blogs), the myki discovery centre has opened at Southern Cross station . Even the press release was hidden in the 'latest news' section of the myki website; nothing was changed on the front page to tell people, but I digress. What's...