KerryJ’s Neotenous Tech

Okay, I know there are those of you who will shudder at the saccharine nature of this, but if you can set aside your more cynical side for a moment and look at the mechanics, you might just be wowed.
It started with a YouTube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr3x_RRJdd4 about a young man who came back to Australia [...]

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Okay, so that wasn’t the headline that I saw in the RSS feed from the ABC.  Their story started with the following: “Police are warning internet users to be careful when they form relationships in cyberspace, after arresting a man who allegedly held a Perth woman captive after meeting her online.”
Umm - what if they’d [...]

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Okay so what’s the rule here - is it more than one syllable and drop the last vowel?
A new word is quickly making the rounds — I first read it in a Washington Post blog post from Friday — followed a link in a comment by Erik Schark (sorry sweet pea, you didn’t leave your [...]

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This quote from a Japanese grandmother who loves computers and the internet, is from an article on the ABC news site “Japanese grannies go high tech” http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/08/13/2003066.htm
Members of the “Computer Grannies Society” (founded in 1997) exchange photos and music, share their own creative endeavours and got funding to set up a training day for other senior citizens.  [...]

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I’ve been carrying on a conversation with a representative of my bank regarding the overdraw fee that the now appropriately monikerd NAB charges. 
I asked a simple question - how did you arrive at a figure of $50?  The series of replies I got boiled down to - some of it covers costs, the rest is [...]

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