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A Slice of Life

 Liamalexander ― http://www.liamalexander.com

commentary on issues in politics, culture, environment and technology

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How to Create a Storify Slideshow from a Pinterest RSS Feed

A Slice of Life ― It's very easy to create an embeddable slideshow sourced from a Pinterest RSS feed. This might be a feed of all your Pinterest pins, or pins from a particular board. To complete this (very) simple tutorial, you'll need a Pinterest account and a...

Tags: Internet, Social Media, Technology, Tutorials, Web Design, Embed

Liamalexander ― 27 weeks ago

Lingerie football: Y-front football would provide balance

A Slice of Life ― Widespread protests have greeted an exhibition match to be played by 32 women from the US Lingerie Football League at Allphones Arena today. Names like 'Allphones Arena' and other venues such as 'Centrebet Stadium' might give you a clue that the...

Tags: Football, Sport, Television, Allphones Arena, Australia, Germaine Greer

Liamalexander ― 27 weeks ago

Dawkins vs Pell on #QandA: Dopey Questions from a Dopey Audience

A Slice of Life ― Richard Dawkins has commented since this debate that he was disappointed in his performance, blaming partly his jet lag, but also “… the astonishing bias of the audience and, second, the interfering chairman.” During the debate,...

Tags: Arts And Humanities, Television, American Broadcasting Company, Australia, Cardinal, Catholic Church

Liamalexander ― 16 Apr, 12

Time to rethink the Steve Jobs iShrines?

A Slice of Life ― Isn't the recent outpouring of emotion over the passing of Steve Jobs taking things just a little too far? Midnight vigils at Apple stores? Shrines? Millions of tweets, blogs, articles conferring almost saint like status on the ex Apple CEO? ...

Tags: Internet, Social Media, Technology, Twitter, Apple, Bill Gates

Liamalexander ― 27 Oct, 11

Andrew Bolt: more offensive than sex with a horse?

A Slice of Life ― Many of us, including myself, may not agree with Andrew Bolt's views on this issue and many others. Whatever happened to the famous saying, sometimes incorrectly attributed to Voltaire which many in the legal profession are fond of quoting: " I...

Tags: Arts And Humanities, Media, Social Issues, Social Media, Television, Twitter

Liamalexander ― 27 Oct, 11

Mac vs PC: are you as free-thinking as you think?

A Slice of Life ― Is your sense of style as creative, cool and free-thinking as you imagine? Pethaps 'PC' is really the cool one, not 'Mac'.

Tags: Lifestyle, Technology, Apple, Clothing, Conformity, Fad

Liamalexander ― 27 Oct, 11

OMG I’m a GPS: 6 degrees of separation

A Slice of Life ― Some time ago (26th December 2008 to be precise) I published an article entitled “OMG I’m a gay porn star” The article was about the unforeseen consequences of Googling oneself. My search discovered that I share my name with another ‘Liam ...

Tags: Internet, Media, Photography, Visual Arts, Ben Willis, Google

Liamalexander ― 27 Oct, 11

Is Lord Monckton related to Marty Feldman?

A Slice of Life ― Is Lord Monckton related to Marty Feldman? You could be forgiven for thinking that they are the same person; the similarity is positively uncanny.

Tags: Environment, Adam Spencer, Australia, Carbon Tax, Christopher Monckton 3rd Viscount Monckton Of Brenchley, Marty Feldman

Liamalexander ― 27 Oct, 11

How To Fix an Overheating Laptop that Shuts Down Randomly

A Slice of Life ― My Dell Inspiron 1525 started to overheat and shut down randomly just after the warranty expired.  The machine starts feeling very hot to touch shortly after it starts up.  Applications run slowly or display the ‘not responding’ ...

Tags: Hardware, Technology, Tutorials, Computer Cooling, Dell Inspiron 1525, Hardware

Liamalexander ― 27 Oct, 11

Have You Sold Your Soul to Facebook?

A Slice of Life ― Some time ago Facebook changed it’s image viewing feature.  There was some discussion at the time around the social media traps, many commenting that they weren’t in love with the changes but eventually this died away and most seem to...

Tags: Technology, Add-ons, Facebook, Intellectual Property, Internet Protocol, License

Liamalexander ― 27 Oct, 11

Flash not working in Firefox? Solution: downgrade

A Slice of Life ― Image by Getty Images via @daylife I had noticed that for some time Flash had not been displaying properly in Firefox.  In fact, not displaying at all, yet behaving absolutely absolutely normally in Internet Explorer.  I had ignored this but when ...

Tags: Technology, Tutorials, Add-ons, Adobe Flash, Firefox, Internet Explorer

Liamalexander ― 27 Oct, 11

Consume, Be Silent and Die: A Valediction Against Lurking

A Slice of Life ― The vast majority of internet users are lurkers; passive users who never participate in never generate any content, never participate in discussions, never post comments. This to some degree explains the extraordinary success of Facebook.

Tags: Internet, Social Media, Advertising, Facebook, FarmVille, Lurker

Liamalexander ― 27 Oct, 11

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