Category Archives: huff and puff

corruption

By txt | Published: June 4, 2000

Close to home, there is a program on 4 Corners tonight about potential corruption with The University of Melbourne’s float of its MelbourneIT division. MelbourneIT had the greatest “stag profit” in Oz history of any company to be floated. (offered at $2 opened at $8) The upcoming listing of AIM (ASX: AIM) is next week, [...]

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The 20th Century

By txt | Published: November 23, 1999

In 1930 it cost $244.65 for a three minute phone call from London to New York. Today it costs less than $4.00 In 1980 IBM predicted that the world market for personal computers over the next 10 years would be 275 000 By 1990, there were more than 60 million PC users.

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The 20th Century

By txt | Published: November 18, 1999

Date: Thursday, November 18, 1999, 11:42:46 AM Subject: The 20th Century ===8<==============Original message text=============== With only 43 days left until the end of the 20th Century it is possibly important for us, as members of a public institution that is perhaps reflective of and dogged by late 20th Century nihilism, apathy and expediency, to think [...]

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Me and Charlie Darwin are Mates..

By txt | Published: July 12, 1999

Date: Tuesday, December 7, 1999, 10:30:36 AM Subject: Me and Charlie Darwin are Mates.. ===8<==============Original message text=============== Dear Fellow Un-evolved Rock Apes, Of course factions of the web community think that the web is ‘the natural evolution of human knowledge”…they get paid for it and they have a great investment in convincing the public that [...]

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