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Comment on Victorian Liberal Opposition and Ambulance Promises by admin

admin — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:15:53 +0000

We’re just waiting on some further comment from the AEA-V state secretary, Steve McGhie, for their views on the upcoming elections.

Cheers
ES

Comment on Bayswater Fire Tragedy. by admin

admin — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 02:56:08 +0000

Thanks so much for your comments Matt.

Comment on Bayswater Fire Tragedy. by Matt Taranto

Matt Taranto — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:43:31 +0000

Well said Erik.

While not wanting to take away from the sights & sounds that the Ambo’s faced here, similar comments can also be put forward to the Firies who attended.

CFA crews from Boronia (staff) and Bayswater (volunteer) were on scene prior to the Ambulance and also had to deal with similar sounds and sights.

Again, like the Ambo’s, although there is always the possibility to be faced with patients with serious burns, you cannot train or prepare yourself for what the guys faced that morning.

It is however a credit to the services (CFA, AV, VicPol) that they do have in place very good peer support (counselling) for their members and the culture nowadays is to make use of these services.

I would like to hope that any member of the public who witnessed this horrific event seek counselling for their own good. You cannot ‘walk away’ from something like this without it having some sort of effect on you.

While Ambo’s, Police, SES and Firies attend these events in their ‘professional’ capacity, as Erik said, they are people too and are not immune to the horrors of something like this.

I take my hat off to the public who put themselves in harms way to assist this poor woman.

Comment on Domino’s Saucy Secret by admin

admin — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:00:10 +0000

Just a belated update...the police have apparently tracked down the little snotts involved in this vid. Nice.

Comment on For God’s sake it’s not the 1950′s. by admin

admin — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:21:36 +0000

Well, well!

Good onya channel Seven. You did show the kiss. Let’s hope it opens some peoples eyes and helps some of the youngins come to terms with their life choices.

I bet it rated its socks off too!

http://www.samesame.com.au/news/local/3827/Home-And-Away-Sets-The-Record-Straight.htm

Comment on Why I won’t buy a netbook. by None

None — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 06:28:27 +0000

Savvytel didn’t reply because it appears it has fallen asleep at the wheel. See http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1148976

Comment on Ross Gittins: welcome to your 15 minutes of fame. by admin

admin — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:19:18 +0000

Thanks for the response Matt.

I feel the way that you’ve expressed your concerns about the massive focus on the bush fire is spot on.
If only Mr Gittins had expressed his concerns with an ounce of empathy.

All the best

Comment on Ross Gittins: welcome to your 15 minutes of fame. by Matt Moore

Matt Moore — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:49:54 +0000

At the risk of getting told I’m “insensitive”, I have some sympathy with Gittins’ position – esp. the section at the end. Public attention is fixed on the bushfires disaster. And yet plenty of people are doing it tough in Australia who weren’t the bushfires. My concern is that all public attention and time and money will go the disaster in Victoria. And others will be left high-and-dry.

We are good at reacting to the dramatic (thousands of people made homeless in the space of a few days) but we are a bit rubbish at dealing with long-term, systemic problems in our society. Collectively, we have an attention span that would shame a goldfish. And our country suffers because of it.

Like many, I’ll be giving money and time to help with the bushfire effort but the challenge for me: I should be doing this stuff every week not just when there’s a big, frontpage tragedy.

Comment on Tomizone’s an interesting idea, but… by Steve Simms

Steve Simms — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 05:00:27 +0000

Thanks Eric for the kind comments. As for “Bob”, we’ve been very commercial of good quality since day one and allowing people to take advantage of that on their own is pretty neat. As for “no support”, I agree that our support is limited but if you want us to charge $15 / hour or $35 / day, we’ll happily ship all 1-800 calls to a call centre muppet who at the end of the day can’t fix your issue.
In our time we’ve always maintained that if you can’t support yourself to connect to the simple service, then don’t. Our support is pretty good considering the size of the network and the tiny number of comments or complaints we get. If you’ve had a bad experience with us, contact me directly on steve AT tomizone . com and I’ll happily help.

Comment on Tomizone’s an interesting idea, but… by Bob

Bob — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 02:45:41 +0000

How useful are hotspots in the suburbs?…not at all! Tomizone offers a very poor commercial service that is essential for doing business. This applies to service also, of which Tomizone has none – try calling someone for help – non-existent. Stick to the true commercial network operators if Wi-Fi is important to you.

Comment on Tomizone’s an interesting idea, but… by admin

admin — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:30:34 +0000

Thanks a lot Steve for your great reply. The speed to which you’ve replied is a credit to you and the gang at Tomizone.com.

I really think that in an apartment block or a well built up area the Tomizone idea can work perfectly. It could provide a subsidised internet connection for you and in a community kind of way would provide a cheap way for those around you to do some browsing and emailing. Nice.
I’d also like to thank you for the information about the routers phoning home. Great system and adds a lot of credibility to your network. Spread the word.
As for the extra cost – I really meant that for folks like me to add the Tomizone functionality it would take a new router. My Billion just wouldn’t be up to the task. But perhaps my second “repeater” running DD-WRT may have some future. I’ll have to do some digging.

All the best
Erik

Comment on Tomizone’s an interesting idea, but… by Steve Simms

Steve Simms — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 07:30:06 +0000

Hi Eric – thanks for the experiential notes on your Tomizone exploits! Tomizone Hotspot owners can optionally “map” their hotspot and some choose not to. We feel that the ones that do map them, should advertise and keep them on / put them in good areas etc.
It’s fair to say that quite a large number of our mapped Hotspots are in residences which may be hard to get to if you’re in the suburbs. Needless to say, we’ve also got quite a few in apartment blocks and other built up commercial areas doing quite well in terms of making money for the owners. Furthermore, the commercial presence of Tomizone Hotspots in places such as Starbucks (all 20 of them) are superb sites that are very popular.
I’m sorry that the owners of the Hotspots you went to had either “switched off” or in a dumb area with poor coverage.
For your information, our maps are accurate for hotspots that have “phoned home” to us in the last 24 hours (we allow for owners “saving power” and Broadband outages). Needless to say, when you activate or delete a hotspot as an owner, the status is instantly updated on our map.
Another important thing too is that it doesn’t cost the “hotspot owner” anything extra to have this functionality on the D-Link DIR-300 (more models soon) and we don’t charge a fee to the owners to connect to our service platform – at the end of the day, this is a no risk proposition to them (but a bigger risk to us when the “advertised” flag does not work properly) – I hope your post goes on the way to help your readers understand that to make money, you’ve got to be in popular places!
Better luck next time?

Comment on Old is new is old is new by DeeDee

DeeDee — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:02:57 +0000

Cool Stuff. Never heard of Billy Thorpe but I like it.