This election has a lot of Internet issues at stake.

Parties stances look like this:

Greens are supporters of NBNco, but are the major objectors to the Censor.
Labor invented the censor AND NBNco and supports them both.
Liberal have finally said they don't support the censor and will block it in the senate, but they also want to scrap NBNco.

The Rec Hall have informed us that during the upcoming school holidays there will be some rather extensive innovations being conducted on the hall. This leaves us with a conundrum: They say it MIGHT be finished by wiLANga, but I don't think it will.

I'm currently trying to get in contact with Willunga High School to see if we can use their facility and what are the related details.

I will keep this thread posted with updates.

Although Machine Spirit is about the whole of the nerdism, we are gonna focus that beam into developing a radical new games network. We'll be getting one or two games servers up and running as soon as possible and we'll be organising more events both on-line and on-earth. For now though we've created a Steam Group and we want to hear your thoughts on what you'd like to see more of in local gaming networks.

In an act of what appears to be unintentional irony Senator Stephen Conroy, minister for invasive censorship has declared that Google's collection of WiFi data through it's street view cars. Google's official statement puts the collection of content data down to accidental re-use of code in their intentional scanning of ssids but Judge and Jury Conroy has declared this to be a blatant lie from the shifty internet giant.

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John Rau has been confirmed as the new South Australian Attorney General by GamePron after Mike Rann's announcement of his new cabinet.

Although Rau's electorate is directly North of Croydon (Atkinson's electorate) Rau's position on the introduction of a R18+ classification rating for video games is positive according to Gamers4Croydon's Chris Prior.

For those of you following the South Australian election with an eye on video game politics, you've probably already heard, The Honorable Michael Atkinson, Attorney-General has retired to the back bench after a 14% swing against him on Saturday. It's not unrealistic to attribute this at least partly to the efforts of the Anti-Atkinson party Gamers4Croydon who bested several other well known minor parties at the polls this weekend.

wiLANga is a network gaming event held twice a year in the small town of Willunga, South of Adelaide, South Australia. Every six months gamers from all over the southern region and a few from all across the state gather in The Rec Hall on Main Road, Willunga to experience a night of communal fragging and geekdom. WiLANga has no corporate sponsors and in a way, and we like it like that. In the past we had support from the Onkaparinga City Council, but now we support ourselves and we're damn proud of it. This is a communal gathering so the participants are the ones that make it possible.

I've been waiting for this film for quite some time, as I know a lot of people have. I thought Tim Burton with all his quirky skill would be able to re-energise Carrol's classic tale, freeing it from the twisted chains of non-conformist bizarro overtones that it had been given over the years by goth/emo/whatever stereotypes. It did that, and I'm glad that it did.

I've been meaning to write this for a while now but at some level I think I'm scared of goals because I'm scared of not achieving them, but with Emily as inspiration, I'm starting

My Bucket List

* Learn Chinese.
* Live in China.
* Drive from Peking to Paris (on an indian scout?).
* (climb to and?) see (and touch?) the glacier on mt kilimanjaro.
* Punch a living dinosaur.
* Win a fist fight (against a man)
* Make my own industry recognised computer/video game.
* Write at least one book and have it published.
* Beat the Turing test.