Dash in the park puts Shrek in a blog  By Charles Wright May 12,
2005 Illustration: Philip Burgoyne  Illustration: Philip
Burgoyne  There's a certain irony to the story of how a German
shepherd pup got itself a blog and became perhaps Australia's
most technology-literate pet, since the whole saga began because
someone lacked what most of us these days would regard as a
basic piece of technology: a mobile phone.  The day Shrek went
missing, he had been taken for a walk in Caulfield Park by a
friend of the owner. When he let Shrek off the leash, the dog
bounded off for some distant games. A mobile phone call would
have brought the owner down to the park, but by the time the
friend managed to alert him, Shrek was gone.  The owner took the
usual steps available to everyone in the analog world: he called
on the council; the RSPCA and the Lost Dogs' Home. When that
produced nothing, Shrek's owner didn't wait for the phone to
ring.  He owns a 15-inch Macintosh PowerBook Aluminium, and he
happened to have a copy of A