From the monthly archives:

August 2009

ACMA Blacklists Iran Protest Video & Boing Boing

28 August 2009

Neda Agha-Soltan was shot and killed during the Iranian election protests. Her death was captured on video, and spread virally on the Internet, becoming a rallying cry for the Iranian protests. Now, ACMA has blacklisted the video, and a Boing Boing post commenting on it.

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Resolving the Abortion Debate in South Australia

28 August 2009

The Criminal Law Consolidation Act 1935 (SA) s 82A allows medical termination of pregnancy, so long as the termination poses less risk to the life of the woman than the pregnancy does (not only if the pregnancy carries abnormally high risk). And it appears that abortion in the first 16 weeks is safer than live birth.

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Googling Sex in Two Countries

24 August 2009

When people flocked to reproduce Abigail Bray’s experiment of searching Google for ‘sex’, what surprised me was that the results varied significantly. So, I tried myself, and I found that the results were very different when searching Google than they were when searching Google Australia.

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Simple Countdown Timer for Windows

21 August 2009

I needed a simple timer utility for Windows, but I wasn’t satisfied with any of the programs available. So, I wrote Orzeszek Timer. Just enter the time to count down in just about any format, and hit Enter to start the timer.

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How to Sync WMP and iTunes Ratings

17 August 2009

If you use both Windows Media Player and iTunes to manage your music, keeping your ratings synchronised can be a pain. Orzeszek Ratings lets you sync your play counts and ratings between Windows Media Player and iTunes with two clicks.

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How to Delete Flash Cookies Conveniently

12 August 2009

A couple of days ago, Wired reported on the questionable use of Flash cookies revealed by a UC Berkley study. Many users are unaware that Adobe’s popular Flash plugin stores its own cookies separately from normal browser cookies. Here’s how to get rid of them.

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Fix Slow WLM File Transfers with Orzeszek Transfer

11 August 2009

Slow and buggy file transfers are a problem with Windows Live Messenger. Orzeszek Transfer works as a simple HTTP server, and is a convenient way to transfer larger files without using an intermediary. And it supports resuming broken transfers and multi-part transfers, so long as the client does.

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