Welcome to the personal Web site of Rodney Gedda, a technology journalist and editor in Sydney, Australia. Here you will find a mercurial mix of commentary on IT, journalism, and marketing without the hype. Enjoy!...


Networkers 2008

Following my 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 efforts I’m back in sunny Brisvegas for Cisco’s Networkers conference.

I’m back staying at Conrad Treasury and have hooked up the in-room Ethernet. Not bad when there’s nothing else.

Last night the media and analysts went out for dinner at one of Brisbane’s swanky waterfront restaurants and gedda.info caught up with Cisco’s Peter Hughes - how about that!

Peter Hughes Networkers 2008

Peter was quite excited about his new flip toy and the implications for rapid video publishing.

Well looky what we have hear, Gusworld sitting at the head of the table (he pops up at media events from time to time).

Gusworld at Networkers 2008

Obviously not interested in meeting any female company with that t-shirt on, hey Gus.

All photos taken with my new N85 8GB which happens to double as a phone and voice recorder.


Mobile churn: get your (mobile) account number

Almost everything went fine porting my mobile number from Telstra to Vodafone. The only difficulty I had was trying to figure out which account number Telstra needed to port the number across. I was on a single bill (mobile + landline) so, of course, that account number was not appropriate. I ...


The mobile churn begins

I began the churn process from Telstra to Vodafone last week. I'm hoping it will be as painless as possible, of course, but that won't stop me from documenting everything to help inform others. So far Voda has been quite receptive. Voda has introduced a new mobile data package (~$12 for 100Mb/month) which ...


Mobile data mayhem

After some five years as a Telstra mobile customer I'm almost certainly going to churn when my two-year contract concludes next month. Now there's something to ponder - where the hell does one go to for decent mobile phone and data service in this country? Right now I don't use much mobile ...


The First Casualty by Phillip Knightley

Australian journalist and writer Phillip Knightley meticulously documents the habits of war reporters for the past sesquicentenary of world conflicts. As the title indicates, The First Casualty From the Crimea to the Falklands: The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist and Myth Maker, chronicles the trials and tribulations of Western war journalists ...


TechWorld goes live!!!

Well after a few months of solid project management work, I'm proud to announce IDG's latest IT news and industry portal - TechWorld. We soft launched it a few weeks ago, but are now ramping up our marketing efforts. It was a great experience in flexing my publishing mind to manage the ...


Off to AusCERT

I fly up to AusCERT's annual information security conference tomorrow. As it's my first one I'm quite excited about it, and so far the event staff seem very helpful. Talk about information privacy. Since agreeing to go I've been hounded by every security PR firm on the planet! "I hear (good ears, ...


Stretching the open source line

Found this interesting unified communications and collaboration suite dubbed VMukti. Why use VMukti? Well, according to this page... "VMukti furthers the high standards set by the open source community around the world. Unlike most proprietary VMukti is natively built on the pure Open Source platform: Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, Windows Vista, ...


MythTV success!

After considerable frustration over my lack of TV reception with the Mythbuntu PVR, I decided to forklift upgrade the whole thing to Ubuntu Hardy Heron. Well halle-bloody-lujah!! It now scans and locks onto all Sydney and Newcastle DVB-T signals. I don't know exactly what did the trick - it has a new ...


Inflation, bank style

I just discovered that non-CBA ATM withdrawals now cost $2.00. This is up from $1.50 since February 19, from what I can see. A 30 percent rise in inflation for an artificial "transaction" expense? More like plain pilfering to me. With the bank's infrastructure already written down you're telling me it "costs" ...