October 11, 2006 AUUG returns to Melbourne This year’s AUUG conference is being held at the Rendezvous Hotel in Melbourne, the same place it was two years ago. I jetted in…
September 25, 2006 It’s that time of the year again I crash landed on the Gold Coast this afternoon for Cisco’s annual Networkers gab fest. I can hardly believe it’s been over 12 months…
August 9, 2006 The [e]Census for all My dear fiends at the ABS were put to the test last night with the inaugural electronic Census. Call me cynical but I was…
July 31, 2006 Anyone using Serendipity? I need to develop a new Web site and want to include a blog by default. Sure, I could go WordPress but I think…
June 19, 2006 Back from the joys of forced leave If I haven’t returned an e-mail for the past two weeks it’s (probably) not because I’ve been ignoring you, it’s because I’ve been enjoying…
June 7, 2006 JP’s farewell As you may have heard, one the founding fathers of IT journalism in Australia, John Patrick (JP) Costello passed away last month. Yesterday there…
May 25, 2006 Google foodle Okay, so everyone knows that Google opened its doors to the media in Sydney last week, labelling the occasion as the “official” openining of…
May 15, 2006 What’s Telstra’s phone number? A funny thing happened to me in Melbourne last week. Immediately after Rob Roe’s presentation I asked him if I could take a photo…
May 11, 2006 Mercurial Melbourne Landed in Melbourne last night for the annual Mercury World conference. Staying at the Crown Promenade. Here’s the view… Meeting some interesting IT people…
April 10, 2006 Loitering @ Linuxworld The inaugural Australian Linuxworld conference and expo came and went a few weeks ago. If you’ve been reading my stuff you’ll know that I…
April 3, 2006 Get an Epson Recent printer experiences have forced me to blog away on the topic. After many frustrating hours trying to my HP multifunction device to work…
March 22, 2006 Mobile browser visit It’s amazing what you can find browsing through your HTTP access logs (I need to get out more, I know). Check out this visit…
March 16, 2006 The butterfly effect One of the most gratifying aspects of journalism is the huge ripple you can cause as a result of a single piece of writing….
March 12, 2006 Upgrading WordPress Upgraded WordPress from 1.5.1 to version 2 (specifically 2.0.2) yesterday. I actually had planned to do this for a while and grabbed the 2.0.1…
March 2, 2006 Gotta love the IT conference scene If you’re wondering why the Hell I haven’t responded to your e-mail or phone call this week, well, no, it’s not because I hate…
January 29, 2006 Jabber gibberish I signed up for a Jabber account with KDE’s community Jabber server – KDETalk.net. So anyone who uses Jabber for IM can reach me…
January 19, 2006 Welcome back from the dark side Rob If you’ve been reading my blog you may have stumbled across a few comments from the latest edition to the IDG family, Rob Irwin….
January 16, 2006 Back to work Well after a long (and well deserved ;-)) break, I returned to work with bells on today. A whole month off can really do…
December 23, 2005 From SuSE to Kubuntu – merry Tuxmas! When I first moved from Red Hat to Debian about five years ago I said I would never go back to RPM-based distros –…
November 13, 2005 What a week… Dear readers, Just a quick blog to let you all know that I did indeed survive last week. Special thanks to Michael and Gabrielle…