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Please vote for my photo to help me win 2 x return flights to the UK

By Josh Rowe On October 12, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Update: thanks for all the support, the competition is closed now (I didn’t win).

I have a 1 in 9 chance of winning 2 x return flights to the UK, all I need is the most votes for my photo here: http://josh.tw/pClcIc - do it now & get the people in your house to do the [...]

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Why I am standing for the auDA board

By Josh Rowe On September 19, 2011 · Leave a Comment

As announced, I will be standing for re-election to the auDA board.

In brief, my pitch to auDA members is:

Domain names are essential parts of the Internet’s functionality.  Australian domain names provide the platform for Australia’s online economy; now worth 3.6% of Australian GDP.  Josh Rowe is a current director of auDA seeking re-election.  Josh has [...]

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3D chalk drawings are cool

By Josh Rowe On September 4, 2011 · Leave a Comment

3D chalk drawings are very cool, especially when you’re in one & you can win a prize to the UK if everyone likes it on Facebook!

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Sponsor my 40 hour famine of food, social media and more!

By Josh Rowe On July 27, 2011 · 1 Comment

UPDATE: Target met & exceeded! $1415 in donations received so far – keep them coming!

** New bounties & targets added – see below **

I’m doing the World Vision 40 Hour Famine in August.

I am going without food for 40 hours to raise money to help kids around the world who are [...]

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Melbourne Zoo apologises for bloody uncooked chicken

By Josh Rowe On July 7, 2011 · 2 Comments

Melbourne Zoo together with the Melbourne Zoo Bistro’s caterer, Liberty Catering Concepts, have apologised for serving bloody uncooked chicken to my four year old child.  I accept their apologies and hope that a mistake like this does not occur again.

Here’s what happened today.  Following my lodgement of a formal complaint with the City [...]

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Melbourne Zoo bistro complaint letter (2011 version)

By Josh Rowe On July 5, 2011 · 6 Comments

Today, the Melbourne Zoo Bistro served my 4 year old son uncooked bloody chicken and only apologised when asked to do so.  This blog post together with this Tweet, this Facebook post, this Foursquare tip and my online formal complaint to the City of Melbourne are my 2011 version of a [...]

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Steve Jobs presents new Apple building plans to council

By Josh Rowe On June 9, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Steve Jobs plans to build a spaceship like building surrounded by acres of grass and trees for it’s new Apple HQ in Cupertino, California.

It’s an amazing looking building which Apple plans to have ready by 2015.

Here is the presentation Jobs gave to the Cupertino Council on June 7, 2011:

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Ebony and Ivory

By Josh Rowe On June 9, 2011 · Leave a Comment

My sister, Zan Rowe, has been in radio for 15 years.

For those last 15 years I have had a running joke song request for her to play Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney’s duet; Ebony and Ivory.

This song is not exactly a match for the types of songs she might have played at [...]

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Google imitates Facebook Like button with +1 button

By Josh Rowe On May 25, 2011 · Leave a Comment

 

Google’s new ”+1 button” looks like a version of the Facebook Like button.  They announced it back in March, but I have just started seeing it appear in my Google search results today.

Is this Google finally starting to make the most of their massive customer database to kick start their own social network?

[...]

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Welcome!

By Josh Rowe On January 6, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Welcome to Josh’s Sanctum – the personal blog of Josh Rowe from Melbourne, Australia.

In 1995, when the Internet was young, I launched Josh’s Sanctum as a place to share links through the 1995 version of social media – a guestbook.

The 2011 version of Josh’s Sanctum is my personal blog where I intend to [...]

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