Blogs

I need a powerful VoIP program because I need to talk to different people around the world at the same time. Ventrilo can accommodate many people in one server.

Gamers  often use Ventrilo to communicate with other players on the same team of a multiplayer game because it uses minimal CPU resources.

Also, communicating by voice - as opposed to chat - gives a competitive advantage by allowing players to keep their hands on the mouse and keyboard, and communicate quicker than typing messages to one another.

In a fast phase game in which you don't have time to type to your keyboard, voice communication is a must and Ventrilo is my choice.

Those who know me would attest that I would have been following the 2010 Federal Election very closely regardless of what was topical on the policy front. I am a political tragic and a lover of the much-criticised 24 hour news cycle - and my wife is the authority to affirm that fact.

However, regardless of the result this weekend, all of us in the internet industry have to be delighted that for five weeks, our world and our concerns were shared with the masses.

Fibre, wireless, megabits, open internet, filters, etcetera became part of the vernacular of politicians who don't even know how to turn on a computer, let alone Tweet or use Facebook.

 

Due to the broadband debate, more Australians now know that parts of the world have connection speeds up to 100 times faster than we do here downunder.

 

Most also understand that this is due to fibre-optic cabling; something no commercial enterprise has decided to build in Australia due to our small population and the unlikelihood that they will ever make a buck from a $43 billion outlay.

 

Most Australians also now know that an internet filter designed to censor offensive content from the internet (such as child paedophilia and how to join Al Qaeda) sounds nice, but is unlikely to work and could be abused by a group of legislators sooner or later.

 

If it did miraculously work and wasn't abused, the geek community that rules the online world will not stand for any censorship on the 'open internet'.

I have written a BLOG on my personal website haigkayserian.com.au, with my summation of these two topics - National Broadband Network (NBN) and the Internet Filter - which served the internet industry brilliantly by raising internet to the very top of the policy pile, ahead of Health, the Economy, Industrial Relations, Immigration and Climate change...

Please click here to read the blog.

'The best page in the universe' is actually a good read if you want to relax after a stressful of your day. Although the blog is not regularly updated with new content, the old entries cover enough humour that you'll feel good after reading them. All in all, a blog page that's not supposed to be taken seriously, but generally is a great source for genuine laughs.

Maddox released a book called "The Alphabet of Manliness", covering from A-Z the true meaning of being what he calls a "real man". Again, not to be taken seriously, but a good read nonetheless.

I've read the book and I must say it's typically Maddox with some solid laughs along the way.

If you want to read a really funny and angry blog, then go to Maddox's site.

And "If you don't agree with me then you're wrong".