Oh this is going to hurt Telstra’s NextG network something fierce.

I currently have an $8 data pack on my Telstra 3G phone.

That gets me 3 meg. That’s MEGABYTES. 3072 bytes.

Thats about 26 cents a Kb.

The 3 deal will see the price go to (effectively) .4 cents a Kb

Making Telstra, effectively 65 times more expensive at present.

*note: Now there are Data packs of higher data values with Telstra, but they are a rip off. Take the Next G card option here. $39:95 for 200Mb, or $49:95 for 400Mb. Still nowhere near the 3 deal. I tried to find something, anything on Telstra’s site about data packs for handsets, but I can’t.

So there.

Three lifts wrap on “X-Series”: 500MB at HSDPA speed for $20 | APC Magazine

Vandals target historic headstones

VANDALS have smashed more than 60 headstones, causing about $500,000 damage, at the heritage-listed St Kilda Cemetery.

The cemetery contains the graves of former Australian prime minister Alfred Deakin and several Victorian premiers, including the state’s first, William Clarke Haines, and Albert Jacka, a Victoria Cross winner in the First World War.

I am too angry for words about this.

I cannot believe these fucking idiots would go and damage the grave of someone like Albert Jacka- Australia’s greatest ever war hero.

They are not fit to clean the undersides of his boots.

FURIOUS!

This unfortunate juxtaposition caught my attention on The Age‘s front page this afternoon:

Television manufacturer LG has failed to determine the source of a glitch in some of its televisions, which caused them to freeze when screening Nine Network’s programs, despite being notified of the problem three weeks ago.

This happened to us- with our new 32″ LCD TV. One minute I was watching “CSI: Las Vegas” and the next I was watching a frozen screen of said show…

Unplugging the damn thing did nothing (and the only way to turn it off was to unplug it as everything was locked out- remote control and the actual TVs buttons). So I pondered what to do. LG conveniently provide a 1800 number on the back of the TV so I prepped Mrs R on what to say on Monday morning (while I was safely at work…)

She was not keen.

In near manic/murderous frustration I Googled “Frozen LG TV” and lo and behold found the fix: unplug power and aerial cables. Plug power back in- as it cannot pick up whatever signal is messing with it’s hardware, you can now change channels OFF channel 9 onto anything else. Plug in aerial- good to go. Booted up just fine… (who would have thought that we would actually have to “boot up” a damn TV?)

Note: It only crashed on Channel 9: I offer that only as a fact, not an opinion on the digital signal from GTV 9…

LG flummoxed by digital freeze – Home Theatre – AtHome – Technology