From:The Daily Telegraph

October 04, 2010 2:19PM

Passengers called police about 10.30am to report a man on a train from Newcastle had a gun.

Police from Kuring Gai Local Area Command cleared platforms 3 and 4 at Hornsby station before the train arrived, then entered the carriage.

A sawn-off .22 calibre shotgun was found under a seat. Passengers assisted police identifying the alleged owner of the weapon and he was arrested.

A 34-year-old Rosehill man was taken to Hornsby Police Station where he is assisting police with inquiries.

POLICE cleared several platforms at a Sydney train station this morning after a man was arrested with a sawn-off shotgun on a commuter train.

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The Christopher Pyne experiments

By Marieke Hardy

It seems there is nobody in the entire world who is loathed by Australia more than Christopher Pyne. (AAP: Alan Porritt, file photo)

I have had a great deal of time lately to think about Liberal MP Christopher Pyne. It was his appearance on last week’s Q and A that really cemented the process (“But… but… you didn’t cut Chris Bowen off mid-sentence,” he bleated to Tony Jones in his shrill little voice, causing a nation to, as one, silently pray for him to get attacked by a large and libidinous dog on his walk home), which led me to hold a few fact-finding conversations with various ‘demographics’ as I take my role as ABC opinion holder/commentator/taste-maker intensely seriously which you would probably be able to tell by my many searing political insights over the previous nine months.

Opinions on Christopher Pyne seem to vary, from “I despise his crinkly hair”* to “Seriously cannot watch Christopher Pyne. Parseltongue on television gives me the creeps”** to “When Chris Pyne says ‘Kumbaya’ I taste a little vomit in my mouth”***. It seems that nobody in the whole of Australia likes him. Which leads me to presume that perhaps there is nobody in the entire world who is loathed by Australia more than Christopher Pyne and that’s why I took it upon myself to conduct the following experiments.

1. Does Australia despise Kyle Sandilands more than Christopher Pyne?
It’s getting kind of tedious hating on Kyle Sandilands these days. I mean, when someone loudly announces to a table of dinner party companions: “You know who I just abhor? That fat-headed beard man from the radio,” it’s hardly bound to make waves socially. Every few months or so Kyle will say something about fat chicks or rape victims and everyone will fall over themselves trying to say how much they detest him, but it’s not necessarily interesting. You want to be controversial? Try telling a crowded bar that Hamish and Andy suck. Those two are like the untouchable twin Jesus brothers.

VERDICT: Australia hates Christopher Pyne more than we hate Kyle Sandilands.

2. Does Australia despise India more than Christopher Pyne?
Boo! Hiss! The brown people ruined our special sporting event and went to the toilet in our athlete’s sinks! Let’s lynch ‘em! And so forth.

My favourite thing about the Commonwealth Games crisis in India was yesterday reading the hugely dramatic sentence, “England’s hockey and lawn bowls teams were whisked off to five-star hotels where they will stay until next week,” in the Sun Herald. Five-star hotel for a lawn bowls team? Shouldn’t they all be in those Formula 1 buildings where you have to sit in a plastic chair in the shower?

Anyway, despite all the chaos and filth and occasional bout of shitting in sinks India seems to have redeemed itself with the industrial cleaning hoses and help from the New Zealand chef de mission Dave Currie who seems to be single-handedly in there himself with a bottle of Draino and a Brill-o-pad. Let’s all look forward to a jolly, incident-free Games shall we?

VERDICT: Australia hates Christopher Pyne more than we hate India.

3. Does Australia despise Brendan Fevola more than Christopher Pyne?
Fevola, the recently benched AFL player whose name is usually preceded with the words ‘Disgraced footballer’ ‘Deranged drunkard’ or ‘Complete twazzock who made such a stark raving idiot of himself at last year’s Brownlow Medal count even Brynne Gordon was embarrassed on his behalf’, lately made the front pages by allegedly showing his flaccid penis to ‘a mother of four’ which seems a misguided exercise as she’s clearly seen at least one in her life on a previous occasion. It’s difficult, though, to hate someone who is so thick they probably eat their own hair gel. He’s just like a misguided Labrador, isn’t he? The li’l penis-flashing scamp.

VERDICT: Australia hates Christopher Pyne more than we hate Brendan Fevola.

4. Does Australia despise Kanye West more than Christopher Pyne?
Look, the truth is I’m probably stretching things for the sake of my otherwise watertight and wholly structured journalistic argument here. Nobody hates anybody in the whole world more than they hate Kanye West. He is a legitimate douchebag. Christopher Pyne is a douchebag in many ways, but those ways are more suburban and fey than innate. I’m happy to be argued out of this when Christopher Pyne shoves Julie Bishop out of the way during a lengthy Question Time and trills in that aforementioned cadence “Listen Julie, Imma let you finish… but Rob Oakeshott’s decision speech was one of the greatest of all time” and everybody tries to collectively kick him in the nuts.

VERDICT: Australia hates Kanye West probably just as much as we hate Christopher Pyne.

And what can we draw from this? Firstly that Christopher Pyne should probably release a hit single soon or flash a mother if he’s going to survive another year in politics without people simply walking up to him on the street and swatting him with a dirty glove. Still, I’m yet to explore part two of this particular experiment which involves Lara Bingle, Matthew Newton, and the family of missing toddler Keisha Abrahams. So there’s hope for you yet Christopher Pyne! I say this with affection, mind.

* My father, who very rarely has an unkind word to say about anybody’s follicular challenges, be they comedic or otherwise. Interesting side note: Michael Kroger also has crinkly hair.

** My friend Benjamin Law. At first I thought he was calling Christopher Pyne ‘parsley tongue’ which I found very droll. “He does sound like he’s talking through a mouthful of parsley,” I chuckled to myself, “what a strange and clever analogy”. Then I googled the term and realised Ben was making a Harry Potter joke. Less left-of-centre, but equally as amusing.

*** Someone on Twitter who calls himself Abe Frellman and clearly suffered through CP’s appearance on Insiders yesterday morning. Send your fruit baskets of condolences to the appropriate address.

Marieke Hardy is a writer and regular panelist on the ABC’s First Tuesday Book Club.

First posted Mon Sep 27, 2010 3:28pm AEST at thedrum.com.au

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Vodafone releases iPhone Pricing

Tuesday, July 27, 2010 in News

Everyone’s been waiting for our plan prices to be released, now we can let you all know. Hopefully it’s been worth the wait!

*Monthly credit can be used for Standard calls, video, TXT & PXT®, International voice, video, TXT & PXT®, Voicemail, Mobile Internet , Calls to 13, 18 numbers
** Unlimited standard national and international TXT, PXT® and video PXT® sent to personal mobile numbers
^ Standard voice calls to Vodafone and 3 in Australia

iPhone 4 features FaceTime, which makes the dream of video calling a reality, and Apple’s stunning new Retina display, the highest resolution display ever built into a phone, resulting in super crisp text, images and video. iPhone 4 also features a 5 megapixel camera with LED flash, HD video recording, Apple’s A4 processor, a 3-axis gyro and up to 40 percent longer talk time—in a beautiful all-new design of glass and stainless steel that is the thinnest smartphone in the world. iPhone 4 comes with iOS 4, the newest version of the world’s most advanced mobile operating system, which includes over 100 new features. The revolutionary App Store provides access to more than 200,000 apps including the new iMovie app built just for iPhone 4.

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I had a short conversation with someone from the @Twitterrific twitter account, here it is.

Luckily @Twitterrific made this a new download so I can still use the old one, but that doesn’t solve my problem with custom URL shortening. I liked this app as it allowed me to see that i wasn’t missing any tweets throughout the day if @twitter goes off, like yesterday when the Federal leadership #spill was happening here in Australia. Whilst they say improvement is coming, they have stripped it right back to not much more than m.twitter.com can provide. At the end they appear to be going with Twitters new in-house URL shortening, totally leaving out those of us with custom URL’s, is this a good thing? I don’t think so.

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New fixtures released

The eagerly-awaited fixtures for the 2010/11 Barclays Premier League season have now been released.

Champions Chelsea begin the defence of their Barclays Premier League title at home to newly-promoted West Bromwich Albion managed by former Stamford Bridge favourite Roberto di Matteo.

Runners-up Manchester United also kick off against a promoted side as Newcastle United visit Old Trafford. Click here to see all the fixtures in chronological format or click here to see club by club fixtures.

It is a re-run of the opening-day fixture in 2008/09 when the sides drew 1-1. At the end of the campaign, the Magpies were relegated and United went on to win the title.

The other new-boys Blackpool’s first ever Barclays Premier League fixture will be a local derby at home to Wigan Athletic. They then go to Arsenal before hosting Fulham.

But perhaps the pick of the opening day fixtures is a re-run of last season’s intriguing battle for a Champions League place.

After pipping Manchester City for fourth spot, Tottenham Hotspur begin at home to Roberto Mancini’s side while Liverpool host Arsenal who finished third last season.

It promises to be a mouth-watering start to the new campaign. Aston Villa who finished sixth begin at home to West Ham United who just avoided relegation and who will be playing their first match under new manager Avram Grant.

Local rivals Wolverhampton Wanderers and Stoke City meet at Molineux and Sunderland manager Steve Bruce faces his old club Birmingham City at the Stadium of Light.

Everton make the short journey to Blackburn Rovers while Bolton Wanderers are at home to Fulham.

key matches

Fans will be keen to see the key matches between the teams who finished in the top four last season, although fixture dates are still subject to change.

The first of these is currently scheduled for 2nd October when champions Chelsea host Arsenal.

The first meeting between last season’s top two comes at Stamford Bridge on 18th December and the sides do battle again a fortnight before the end of the season as Chelsea visit Old Trafford on 7th May.

There is a festive feast on Boxing Day when Arsenal host Chelsea and the first real heavyweight encounter comes on 18th September when Manchester United meet Liverpool at Old Trafford.

intriguing finale

The season boils up to an intriguing finale with champions Chelsea finishing at Everton while title hopefuls United host Blackpool.

Arsenal are at Fulham, Liverpool go to Aston Villa and Manchester City visit Bolton while Spurs finish at home to Birmingham. Newly-promoted sides Newcastle and West Brom face each other at St James’ Park.

Click here to see all the fixtures in chronological format or click here to see club by club fixtures.

All dates and kick-off times have still to be confirmed and the fixtures are still subject to change.

Opening day fixtures

Aston Villa v West Ham
Blackburn v Everton
Blackpool v Wigan
Bolton v Fulham
Chelsea v West Brom
Liverpool v Arsenal
Man Utd v Newcastle
Sunderland v Birmingham
Tottenham v Man City
Wolverhampton v Stoke

Boxing Day fixtures

Arsenal v Chelsea
Aston Villa v Tottenham
Blackburn v Stoke
Blackpool v Liverpool
Bolton v West Brom
Everton v Birmingham
Fulham v West Ham
Man Utd v Sunderland
Newcastle v Man City
Wolverhampton v Wigan

Final day fixtures

Aston Villa v Liverpool
Bolton v Man City
Everton v Chelsea
Fulham v Arsenal
Man Utd v Blackpool
Newcastle v West Brom
Stoke v Wigan
Tottenham v Birmingham
West Ham v Sunderland
Wolverhampton v Blackburn

All fixtures are still provisional and subject to change.

New fixture released

Club by Club Fixtures

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When You Don’t Know Your Own Strengths
By David Ingram

SBS is busy kneecapping one of its most outstanding assets: its world-class subtitling section. David Ingram looks at the managerial bungling behind their move

On its own, the shedding of more than 10 jobs in SBS’s relatively small Subtitling Unit could simply be a sad necessity, a realistic remedy to straitened economic times. SBS has limited funds, is not immune to economic downturns and must adapt to changing demands for subtitling foreign programs.

SBS managing director Shaun Brown gave a Senate Estimates committee on Monday the reasons for what he called “surplus capacity” in Subtitling:

“Firstly, technology has changed and consequently there are more efficient ways of subtitling and there are further technology changes due in SBS. Secondly, we anticipate on SBS2 in particular an increased level of subtitling that comes with the program from overseas. The quality of those subtitles has improved markedly. … Thirdly, because we only carry subtitling in-house for certain languages, the match between those languages that we have capacity for and those language programs that we want to put to air is never going to be perfect.”

SBS currently employs approximately 35 full- and part-time subtitlers and about 15 casuals, already a significant reduction in numbers from its heyday of 60 staff. Subtitlers say they are the last refuge of multiculturalism within an essentially Anglo SBS TV.

Brown told the senators no languages or individuals had then been identified for the axe, although staff report that the previous Wednesday the unit’s manager had started to give individuals a “heads up” which left at least one subtitler in tears and three others in no doubt their jobs were gone, before the sessions were abruptly stopped. Brown and the Community and Public Sector Union’s National President Michael Tull will meet on Friday.

The truth is SBS doesn’t have enough money to do everything it wants. It never has had, though critics argue that its appetites have risen faster than its resources in recent years. Certainly its senior executives chew up a sizeable proportion of its $260-million budget. In 2008-09 (pdf), Brown and his six highest paid senior executives together received more than $2,175,000.

Brown’s explanation to Senate Estimates was hard to argue with, but it is his solutions which are causing alarm within and beyond the Subtitling Unit. They fear this signals the beginning of the end of subtitling within SBS and of all the benefits that go with having what was once unquestionably the best subtitling service in the world.

And many critics see this as yet another example of what one former managing director has called the “failed business model” of the Board under former chairman Carla Zampatti, which is ironic because that board was appointed almost wholly for its business credentials.

As a fashion designer Zampatti should have recognised the need to protect the brand and maintain consumer loyalty. Change is the lifeblood of the fashion industry, but the Zampatti label is admired as much for where it doesn’t go as for where it does. In trying to shift SBS into a space already overcrowded by the big three commercial television networks, she led SBS down a dead end.

And at a time when it was critical for SBS to remember the business it was in — multicultural broadcasting — the board and senior executive were stripped of almost all expertise. At one point, of nine directors only Zampatti herself and Aboriginal businessman Joseph Elu could claim significant non-Anglo backgrounds.

The senior executive headed in the same direction. Although expanded to nine under Brown, only one — the head of radio — was discernibly “ethnic”. On arrival from New Zealand, Brown could recite the values and value of multiculturalism but had little experience of its uniquely Australian manifestation. Many of his executives had less.

But ill-considered “mainstreaming” and a failure to understand the value of SBS’s multicultural brand weren’t the only aspect of the business model the Zampatti board got wrong. The ideology-driven move towards harder-edged commercialism — including ads within programs — not only alienated large, loyal sections of its audiences but it took the board and executive into areas of commerce where they were often ill-equipped.

Perhaps the most glaring example of this has been the board’s love of outsourcing, a fate some think is in store for SBS Subtitling.

Since 1994, SBS had used SBS Independent to fund local production partnerships, to the benefit of viewers, independent producers and the corporation’s bottom line. But under the Zampatti board, outsourcing became an ideological end in itself. Critics said it had become a vehicle for funnelling taxpayers’ dollars into the private sector. By 2006 SBS was out-sourcing most of its television production, excluding news and current affairs, when the board set out to outsource the entire multimillion dollar television playout system.

Deloittes, who do most of SBS’s business consultancy, ran the tender project, named STRAPS 2. Red Bee Media, a British-based former BBC company owned by the Macquarie group, emerged as the cheapest to provide a complete outsourced service. But it would cost approximately $50 million over 10 years, compared to only $27 million to do the work in-house.

Deloittes then provided three “model sensitivity scenarios”, varying some of the key assumptions which closed the gap between the in-house and outsource options, though not enough. Despite modellings which increased in-house costings and decreased the outsource fees by up to 50 per cent, the best scenario they could find still left the outsource option more expensive by $3 million.

However, the board’s Digital Sub-Committee “determined that an outsource option was preferred in principle” and on 6 March 2007 SBS announced it had chosen the outsourced solution by Red Bee. Nowhere did the media release mention the relative costs of the project.

A year later, on 23 February 2008, SBS quietly admitted the deal with Red Bee Media was off. It never publicly explained why.

Back to the present and the cuts to SBS Subtitling, again the outcome of a Deloittes review.

Red Bee Media owns Red Bee Media Australia, encompassing the former Australian Caption Centre and the country’s biggest supplier of captioning services. On 15 May 2010, the same week SBS was preparing subtitlers for redundancy, Red Bee announced (pdf) it was renewing its contract to provide closed-captioning to SBS. Ironically, while Red Bee Media was making capital from its specialist services, SBS was devaluing its own speciality.

And that’s a problem with outsourcing something unique; you can end up handing your expertise to someone else to accumulate and then sell back to you at price till eventually you have nothing left that makes you special.

In the case of SBS subtitling, this could mean outsourcing more work to a company such as Red Bee who, because they don’t currently have a similar language subtitling capacity in Australia, could either hire ex-SBS subtitlers at their cheaper rate or send jobs to their subtitling operations overseas.

As if this wasn’t alarming enough for SBS employees, talk has re-emerged of selling off SBS’s most lucrative asset — its $64-million Sydney headquarters — and moving into an office block. It may just be talk, but with so many functions now outsourced, its cavernous Artarmon studios vacant most days and digital technology allowing news bulletins to be presented from a studio no larger than a suburban lounge room, SBS could either try again to outsource program playout to an aggregator like Red Bee or even use the ABC/WIN TV multimillion dollar Media Hub facilities now being built at Ingleburn in Sydney’s west.

There is, of course, the question of studios in Sydney and Melbourne to produce SBS radio’s annual 15,000 hours of Australian programming, but radio has been rationalised and downsized over several years and has not been the main driver in SBS since the advent of SBS TV in 1980.

The SBS board has argued with some justification that without new money its options are limited. In the run-up to this month’s budget, Brown did the rounds lobbying for more money for multicultural programming. He repeated his pleas at the Senate Estimates hearing. So far those appeals have largely fallen on deaf ears in Canberra, though privately Communications Minister Stephen Conroy is said to be open to increasing SBS funding if he sees real evidence of a return to a more multicultural focus under the new chairman Joseph Skrzynski. Conroy appointed a second director of non-Anglo background last year and will announce another appointment next Friday. If that person has strong multicultural credentials it will assist Szrzynski and send a strong signal that the Zampatti era is over.

It’s also possible Conroy may order another review of SBS before the next triennial funding round in 2012 and he will certainly be watching closely what further progress the new SBS board makes in reining in Brown and his executives to focus on things SBS has traditionally done better than anyone else in the world. The surviving subtitlers will be hoping that includes them.

Source – http://newmatilda.com/2010/05/27/when-you-don039t-know-your-own-strengths

I am not, nor ever have been, employed by SBS.

Update
The Head of Subtitling, Winnie, has resigned and will be leaving at the end of July.

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He's built a bunch of tunnels under his house in Russia that are nothing but creepy.
http://englishrussia.com/index.php/2010/05/24/the-most-unusual-metro-in-the-world/

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These are the ingredients for 1 but you can adjust to suit your own needs.

• 1 piece Fresh Swordfish
• 100 ml Cream
• 1 pinch Ground Cumin
• 1 pinch Ground Coriander
• 1 pinch Chilli Powder
• 1 pinch Dried Basil Leaves
• 1 pinch Dried Dill Tips
• 1 tablespoon Olive Oil
• 1 Splash of White Wine Vinegar
• Feshly Ground Black Pepper
• 1 pinch Sea Salt
• 1 teaspoon Butter
• 1 Handful of Baby Spinach Leaves

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Cooking Time: 10 Minutes

Ready In: 15 minutes

Directions

• Combine the Ground Cumin, Ground Coriander, Chilli Powder, Dried Basil Leaves, Dried Dill Tips, Freshly Ground Black Pepper, Sea Salt in a plastic bag with the swordfish, shake it up a bit and place in the fridge for an hour or so.

• Cook the fish gently for 3 or 4 minutes on one side and turn and cook the other side for a further 2 or 3 minutes. Place on a plate and put to one side.

• Add the splash of White Wine Vinegar to the pan you just cooked the fish in and boil off  for a minute.  Add the butter, melt then pour in the cream and stir until combined.

• Blanche the spinach leaves for 30 seconds

• Pour the sauce over the Sword Fish and get stuck in.

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More from jamesallenonf1.com

Ferrari and McLaren were left with egg on their faces after totally misjudging the weather conditions in qualifying for the Malaysian Grand Prix.

Their four drivers will start from the back of the grid after their teams held them back at the start of a rain soaked first part of qualifying.

They presented an open goal to their title rivals Red Bull and Mercedes, who took full advantage.

Mark Webber was the only driver to gamble on intermediate tyres in the final session and took pole by a big margin, with team mate Vettel third. Nico Rosberg did a great job to take second, his first front row start and a full second ahead of his rain master team mate Schumacher who starts 8th.

The session was full of drama. The track was damp at the start of Q1, but there was more rainfall during the session. So it was important to be out on track at the right time.

While Robert Kubica and Sebastian Vettel got on with it early on, both Ferrari drivers, both McLarens and Mercedes stayed in the garage. Unfortunately for them the track was its fastest in the first 10 minutes and the rain began falling more heavily as those cars went out on track.

Button and Schumacher were the first of those cars on track and just managed to get in, but Button subsequently aquaplaned off the track having set 13th fastest time at that point, meanwhile Lewis Hamilton, Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa were forced to go for full wet tyres in an attempt to get into the game. They failed, Alonso having a lurid triple spin.

It was extraordinary that the leading teams should have misread the weather situation so badly, especially as the rain had been falling pretty consistently at that time of day all week.

“We got it wrong, we thought that first rainstorm was it, ” said Button. “I aquaplaned off and got stuck in the gravel. Very disappointing, strange session with both Ferraris and both McLarens off. I’m in front of three of my championship rivals, but behind others.”

The top teams’ misfortunes were good news for Virgin Racing and Lotus, who both got a car through to Q2. Kovalainen qualified 15th, with Glock 16th.

The second session challenged the drivers’ and teams’ tactical acumen. It started on a damp track but with rain forecast five minutes in. Most runners took a second set of intermediates, Red Bull went for full wets.

The Renault was handy in these conditions, with Kubica fastest in Q1 and second in Q2 as was Adrian Sutil in the Force India. Sebastian Vettel judged it perfectly and was fastest in Q2. The rain held off until two minutes before the end and the track was at its fastest in the few minutes before that. It was a question of being out there on the intermediate tyres with fuel in the car at the right moment.

Both Williams drivers made it through to the top ten shootout as did both Force India cars.

The decisive final part of qualifying was held in traditional Malaysian monsoon conditions. Robert Kubica cheekily drove around the queue of cars in the pitlane to get out on track first. But the session was stopped after three minutes before any of the cars had managed a lap.

At the restart, with seven minutes left on the clock, most drivers went for full wet tyres, Webber went for the intermediate. Initially it looked like the wrong choice, but on his second flying lap he took provisional pole and then found another 1.1 secs on his third lap.

Team principal Christian Horner confirmed that the decision to take the inters was Webber’s own.

Adrian Sutil qualified fourth and Nico Hulkenberg an impressive fifth.

MALAYSIAN GP QUALIFYING

1.	Webber	Red Bull-Renault	1:51.886	1:48.210	1:49.327
2.	Rosberg	Mercedes	1:52.560	1:47.417	1:50.673
3.	Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	1:47.632	1:46.828	1:50.789
4.	Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	1:49.479	1:47.085	1:50.914
5.	Hulkenberg	Williams-Cosworth	1:49.664	1:47.346	1:51.001
6.	Kubica	Renault	1:46.283	1:46.951	1:51.051
7.	Barrichello	Williams-Cosworth	1:50.301	1:48.371	1:51.511
8.	Schumacher	Mercedes	1:52.239	1:48.400	1:51.717
9.	Kobayashi	Sauber-Ferrari	1:48.467	1:47.792	1:51.767
10.	Liuzzi	Force India-Mercedes	1:49.922	1:48.238	1:52.254
11.	Petrov	Renault	1:47.952	1:48.760	-
12.	de la Rosa	Sauber-Ferrari	1:47.153	1:48.771	-
13.	Buemi	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1:48.945	1:49.207	-
14.	Alguersuari	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1:48.655	1:49.464	-
15.	Kovalainen	Lotus-Cosworth	1:52.875	1:52.270	-
16.	Glock	Virgin-Cosworth	1:52.398	1:52.520	-
17.	Button	McLaren-Mercedes	1:52.211	No Time	-
18.	Trulli	Lotus-Cosworth	1:52.884	-	-
19.	Alonso	Ferrari	1:53.044	-	-
20.	Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	1:53.050	-	-
21.	Massa	Ferrari	1:53.283	-	-
22.	Chandhok	HRT-Cosworth	1:56.299	-	-
23.	Senna	HRT-Cosworth	1:57.269	-	-
24.	di Grassi	Virgin-Cosworth	1:59.977	-	-

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Best mobile Twitter client:

Winner – Twitterific
Honourable Mention – Tweetdeck

Best mobile phone:

Winner – Apple iPhone
Honourable Mention – Nexus One (This might have won had it been available here in Australia!!)

Best Office Suite:

Winner – Microsoft Office 2007
Honourable Mention 1  – Openoffice.org
Honourable Mention 2 – Google Docs (its just not quite there yet in my opinion)

Best Browser

Winner – Firefox 3.6
Honourable Mention – Safari

Best desktop twitter client

Winner – Tweetdeck
Honourable Mention – Seesmic for Windows

Best social media tool

Winner – Twitter
Honourable Mention – Facebook

Best Online news source

Winner – Google News
Honourable Mention – SMH.com.au

Best Technology news source

Winner – techcrunch.com
Honourable Mention – mashable.com

Best Radio Station

Winner – ABC 702 Sydney
Honourable Mention – triple j

Best Digital only radio station

Winner – ABC Grandstand
Honourable Mention – Radar

TV Channel of the Year – Free to air

Winner – ONE HD
Honourable Mention – SBS

TV Channel of the Year – Pay TV

Winner –Eurosport
Honourable Mention – UKTV

Australian TV show of the Year

Winner – Packed to the Rafters
Honourable Mention – Offsiders

International TV Show of the year

Winner – Top Gear (UK)
Honourable Mention – QI

Best piece of Technology

Winner – Apple iPod Touch
Honourable Mention – Foxtel IQ2

Australian Sports-person of the year

Winner – Mark Webber
Honourable Mention – Casey Stoner

International Sports-person of the year

Winner – Jenson Button
Honourable Mention – Ryan Giggs

Sports team of the year

Winner – Brawn GP
Honourable Mention – Manchester United

Song of the year

Winner – Muse – United States of Eurasia
Honourable Mention – Lily Allen – Not Fair

Wormy Thing of the Year

Winner – Google Reader

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Lily Allen – Not Fair Came in at 8
Muse – Resistance – Came in at 35
Lily Allen – 22 – Came in at 60
Eskimo Joe – Foreign Land -  Came in at 65
Muse – United States Of Eurasia - Came in at 84
Arctic Monkeys – Cornerstone
Arctic Monkeys – My Propeller
Eels – Fresh Blood
Eels – That Look You Give That Guy
Yves Klein Blue – Make Up Your Mind

I hope at least one of them make it, but i was a bit rushed doing it and now i’m not so sure about a couple of them.  Follow the countdown here live: http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hottest100/09/countdown/

UPDATED: 26/01/2010

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