This section will be where I vent my spleen about issues I feel strongly about. You might not like the contents. If you don't like what I say, then tough. If you agree, then spread the word. And if you don't care, then don't worry.
Why's it called a “soapbox”? Well a soap box (from when soap used to be freighted in wooden packing boxes) is a traditional platform to stand on top of when you want to air your views to a crowd. There used to be a location in Adelaide (a very long time ago) called “Soapbox Corner,” where the general public could do just that.
So far, it contains commentary on:
- The Australian republic referendum
- Books
- Compulsory voting
- Copyright
- Crap technology
- The farce of compact flouros replacing incandescent lamps
- The fruitless quest for a decent computer keyboard
- Decent web browsers
- Digital television
- DOCX sucks, really sucks
- End of an era at PVHS/VVSS media studies
- Equal opportunities
- Identity cards
- Internet incompatibility
- Invasion Day (A.K.A. Australia day), and human rights
- Media education
- Microsoft sucks
- The NBN is pissing me off
- There's no news like no “news”
- Open standards (non-secretive ways of doing things)
- Piracy
- The Pure Water Systems water filter scam
- SEO (search engine optimisation) scammers
- Simple e-mail (system limitations)
- Simple HTML and morons in webspace (quite a long page, give it time to finish loading)
- Solar power
- Stupid web robots requesting non-existent resources
- Software
- Spelling, I'm beginning to wonder if anybody can still spell correctly, these days
- Anti-spam, and spammers, get lost!
- Take a stand against telemarketers
- Telstra, the National Broadband Network provider from hell
- The television keeps shouting at me
- Water - added chemicals, and bottled versus tap