| Blathering for Thursday, 10 July 2008 |
15:30: Mikal shared: Iran hacks world media with Photoshop [Great Moments In Journalism]
- Its interesting to see that photoshopping news photos for effect isn't just reserved for Hollywood articles I don't care about. Its good to see people doing it get caught.
18:45: Mikal shared: Petrol prices are going up: Yay!
- I wonder what percentage of Australian freight uses the rail network, and if rail is cost effective per tonne compared with trucking. Perhaps its finally time to spend some money on a more modern rail network between the major cities?
22:00: Mikal shared: Issue 1205: urllib fail to read URL contents, urllib2 crash Python - Python tracker
- I just hit this bug with a python app that is trying to read a new site in Australia. Its quite annoying, and seems to be because of a server bug. Then again, it seems like urllib2 is quite vulnerable to remote servers causing it to throw an exception. Annoying.
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Rob
Percentage of freight using the rail network? Modellers at my work (BITRE) estimate around 70% of state to state is by road, 26% by rail and only 6% by sea - which is even more eco-friendly on a tonne-kilometre basis(http://www.bitre.gov.au/info.aspx?ResourceId=662&NodeId=60)... When are we going to learn?