ZDNet is reporting that the two companies behind Kazaa, Sharman Networks and Brilliant Digital Entertainment along with the homes of their executives were raided this morning in the execution of an Anton Pillar order. An AP order is the civil equivalent of having a rubber gloved coppa on your doorstep at 5am to execute a search warrant.

They also raided Monash, UQ and UNSW. Even Australias large ISPs including Telstra and BigPond were raided although Telstra at least insist that 'mums the word' when it comes to subscriber information.

*rant*

Just been out for a nice Friday dinner out. I'm partial to a nice drop of olive oil, some balsamic vinegar and good bread to dunk therein. It seems however that restauranteurs at several of the establishments I have dined at recently slept through basic high school chemistry. Here's the problem:

If you put the olive oil and the balsamic in the same dipping bowl they seperate- oil on the top, balsamic (being water based) on the bottom. Now the problem with this is when you dunk your bread it must pass through the oil before reaching the vinegar. Because olive oil is a hydrophobic substance the nice coating of oil that the bread receives on the way through prevents any absorbtion of vinegar.

Moral of the story- two bowls. One for vinegar, one for oil. Dunk the vinegar first.

I was originally going to call the place 'The Pool Room' after the great Aussie movie The Castle. But some other joker has taken that spot already so instead I've decided on something a little more abrasive.

Right. After resisting the urge for a hell of a long time I've finally decided to start doing this blog thing. It's been in my Outlook reminder list for about 3 weeks now.... but you know how it gets sometimes. I was almost frightened off by the breaking of the Scoble just a couple of days ago- I'm the sort of person that can get addicted to these sorts of things too!

The final straw was getting props from Nic Wise for pointing him in the direction of istockphoto.com- he linked back to me and had to link to my nasty corporate identity- bleh! So, here I am.

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