October 30, 2010 Meeting George I had the pleasure of meeting George Negus this week at a CIO function we hosted in Sydney. I’ve been a fan of George…
February 15, 2009 LCA ’09 wrap up Congrats to Ben Powell and all the organisers of this year’s LCA in Hobart, you did a fantastic job. The build-up to the conference…
January 17, 2009 Marching south My first week back at work was quite hectic. E-mails, work and more e-mails. Now I’m pleased to say I’ll be marching south for…
September 16, 2008 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…
May 17, 2008 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…
January 25, 2008 Off to LCA! Today is my last day in the office before I jet off to yet another Linux.conf.au, this year in Melbourne. Hey, what do you…
November 22, 2007 A conference and free concert I’m in the media room at the Sydney Convention Centre trying to file a story from the Gartner conference and all I can hear…
September 17, 2007 Back in Brisvegas I’m back in Brisbane this week. This time it’s for Cisco’s Networkers which has found its way back to Brisbane from the much-loved Gold…
August 21, 2007 Going green, for all good CIOs Spent today at the Green CIO conference at the Sydney Convention Centre. I got the impression many CIOs truly are thought leaders on the…
August 10, 2007 Printing to a Windows network printer @ Tech.Ed How does a Linux user manage to print something at a Microsoft conference? I asked myself that same question yesterday and decided to investigate….
August 8, 2007 Tech.Ed returns to the Gold Coast Well it’s been two years since Microsoft’s Tech.Ed last graced the shiny sands of Queensland’s Gold Coast. I jetted in last night and checked…
May 3, 2007 CYA CeBit 2007 Well there goes another CeBit. I was pleasantly surprised that this year’s event actually had some content worth writing about. But I’m glad it’s…
March 18, 2007 Racing down to the Grand Prix I was fortunate to score a quick tour of the Melbourne Grand Prix last Thursday, when the teams were just getting everything together for…
March 11, 2007 Lights-out Mercury & OpenView During last week’s HP Software conference in Brisvegas, the business unit’s marketing chief David Gee, made no secret of the intention to “sunset” the…
March 4, 2007 Off to Brisvegas A bit of a blog to let everyone know I’m jetting off of Brisbane for HP‘s software universe 2007 conference. The first thing I’ll…