Our local Safeway store recently put these signs up at every register.

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Senator Stephen Conroy, speaking at the launch of National Cyber Security Awareness Day, made a truly woeful slip.

I must hasten to remind you that Conroy is the Australian Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy. Why? Because his fumbling prose about the Web is essentially the equivalent of calling a modern military assault rifle “a thunderstick”.

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May 19 2010

Everybody makes mistakes.

You do. I do. We all do.

Mistakes are an inevitable part of living and learning. We make mistakes all the time, we learn from them and we move on.

There are, however, two broad categories of mistake. There’s the honest mistake, and there’s the institutional error.

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Got your attention, have I?

Okay, so not all of you are a major let-down. Some of you, I’ll grant, are not. Mistakes do happen – we all make them. Nobody’s at their best when they have to write an article about something that they know nothing about, surely.

But for pity’s sake, make an effort! The fact is that if what you know about virtual worlds is based on what you read in the media, you probably know less than nothing about them.

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