Google is Un-Australian (or is that Anti-Australian)

Posted in IT, On the Intertron, Rant by Will on September 17, 2006.

Google doesn’t like Australians, or Britains, or New Zealanders, infact — they don’t like many other people.

What the heck am I on about? Well… Google have this rather annoying habit of releasing all sorts of cool functionality.

Like, say Google Talk, or more specificly Google Talk integration inside GMail. That wasn’t available for months after it was made available to people who had their settings on “English (US)” (as opposed to “English (UK)”)

Now they’re at it again - Google Personalised Homepage is great. I use it, so do a bunch of friends — but they’ve released a bunch of stuff on the US version, but none of the others have it (not even the Canadians).

It’s not just the neat new tabs they installed - it’s some other pretty major bits of functionality - like Quick Add for the Google Calendar module, and various other bits of cool.

C’mon Google - get your act into gear!

Edit: As Ian points out - We don’t have Froogle here in .au yet. Sjeez, it’s like a conspiracy.

Moving to .uk?

Posted in Coding, IT, Travel, Work by Will on September 17, 2006.

Some information that might be helpful.

First, you’ll need to get a Work Visa - UK Visas is the place to go.

As for getting jobs - Ian gave me this bunch (thanks Ian)


The sites I use are:
- www.monster.com
- www.reed.co.uk
- www.hudson.com
- www.hays.co.uk

Also, for developers, the Joel on Software job board might be a good place to look too.

(Yes, I’m thinking about it…)