Australian Idol Dumped By Ten

Posted on January 9, 2010 by Michael

Australian Idol Dumped By Ten | undercover.com.au, Music, News, Entertainment.

“Australian Idol will not return in 2010. Network 10 has decided to “rest” the tired talent quest after years of falling ratings.”

No huge surprise. Been saying for years they would be better running Idol every second year. Gives them a better pool of talent to choose from, plus lessens the burnout from viewers.

2009′s format was a dud. Should have had the elimination at the end of the show. Too often we just tuned in for the first 15 mins to see who was booted and then watched something else.

Judges need to have a say too. IMO the best format is Rock Star. Judges picked the 3 worse performances on the night and then the viewers voted on that.

Bring back Kyle. And Big Brother!

Main problem I see is what will Undercover.com.au do now for Australian Content now that Paul can’t bitch about Idol? ;)

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Craig Ferguson 1/7/10A Late Late Show beginning

Posted on January 9, 2010 by Michael

YouTube - Craig Ferguson 1/7/10A Late Late Show beginning.

Craig Ferguson (the boss in the Drew Carey Show) has his take on the rumours that Leno is being moved back to a later time slot to possibly replace Conan.

Really, what idiot thought a late-night format would work in Prime Time 5 nights a week?

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Philip K. Dick Estate Sues Google

Posted on January 8, 2010 by Michael

Philip K. Dick Estate Sues Google : Slice of SciFi.

Would it have killed Google to at least ask to use the name Nexus One?

Don’t try to pretend your using the name because of it’s original meaning – meeting place. Why add the One to the end of it then?

Personally I think the name Nexus One is an awesome name – but ONLY because of the attachment to Blade Runner / I Dream Of Electric Sheep.  If that movie / book didn’t exist – then Nexus One would be a pretty fricken lame name for a phone to be honest.

Asshats.

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Dell previews 5-inch tablet concept akin to large iPod touch

Posted on January 8, 2010 by Michael

AppleInsider | Dell previews 5-inch tablet concept akin to large iPod touch.

This looks pretty nice.

Makes me wonder why companies like Dell etc have waited till now to release a Tablet device?

The hype around the Apple Tablet has been huge over the last year or 2 – why wait till supposedly 2 weeks before its announcement to release their own?

Dumb.

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Music Sales Reach 1.5 Billion In The USA 2010

Posted on January 7, 2010 by Michael

Music Sales Reach 1.5 Billion In The USA | undercover.com.au, Music, News, Entertainment.

1. Testing the Press This feature in WordPress

2. Highlighting the fact that Music is in pretty good shape – when was the last time you heard a record exec complain?

Interesting the increase in digital downloads in the first year of non-DRM downloads.

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Site install update.

Posted on December 31, 2009 by Michael

So far so good.

Been pretty happy with the progress so far. Very happy to find a theme that easily lets me add site URLs in a Nav Bar across the top of the site.  For what I want this site to be – a hub or many other sites, it’s ideal.

Been going through a lot of my old plugins that I had saved from other sites. Most of them didn’t make it to this one. Instead I have been going through several articles written by people smarter than me about Top 10 Plugins for WordPress, First 10 things to do with a WP blog etc. I’ve gone thru half a dozen or so of these and picked the best bits from each one.  I’ve now got a nice core of around 20 plugins – a few related to SEO which I haven’t turned on yet but I will.

I think I will probably end up writing my own Top 20 WP ideas – once I go thru a few more installs.

Main problem I have been having is getting Feedburner to work. Well feedburner works fine, but getting WP to deal with it properly seems to be a bigger pain than expected. Google seems to have fucked up quite a few links that would have been handy – it’s redirected them to a generic Google Groups page which imo is probably the most useless thing Google offers.

Yes I said typed fuck. Get over it.

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Hello world!

Posted on December 23, 2009 by Michael

Welcome to my new website.

I have decided to make my old site michaelquinn.com.au more or less for “family type” news. The idea is I can rabbit on about any kind of shit here, and family and friends can visit the other site if they just want to find out whats happening with Eliza.

This one is a bit of a work in progress – still trying to work out where everything fits and if this is the right WP theme to go with. The usual procrastination crap.

The plan is to have 4 blogs up by the end of the week at the latest, and then actually use them. At least one 2009 New Years Resolution might have a chance of getting a tick!

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