June 3, 2007 Hate for hate’s sake Being an engineer and computer journalist, politics for me seems like little more than a legal way to extort money out of a population…
May 26, 2007 Computerworld turns 40 Congratulations to Computerworld US which celebrated its 40th anniversary this month. That’s right, for 40 years Computerworld has been providing the most insightful and…
May 12, 2007 Who knew? Don’t you just love retrospect? Regarding IT, it truly is amazing to read opinions of people from yesteryear that today seem so wildly out…
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…
April 15, 2007 Cool gear from Cafepress.com I took delivery of a nice Amarok baseball shirt late last week. I ordered it online from Cafepress. After attempting to use the Revelinux…
April 6, 2007 Hollands joins Dow Jones Media outfit Dow Jones announced this week it has appointed Mark Hollands as the new Asia Pacific director of sales. Why do I care?…
March 28, 2007 Computerworld hits the UK cyber streets Just a quick jot to welcome Computerworld UK to the international Computerworld, and IDG, families. Nice site too, well done! The launch follows the…
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…
February 25, 2007 The Epson AcuLaser CX11NF Colour Laser MFD with Linux Greetings Linux boffin. If you are reading this Web page you’ve probably been searching for a colour laser multi-function device that works with the…
February 21, 2007 Case Closed by Gerald Posner Like many people of my generation, my knowledge of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy has been largely clouded by popular literature, documentaries…
February 12, 2007 Drought, what drought? If Australia is in the worst drought on record surely the rain of the past few days will help alleviate the problem. As I…
February 3, 2007 Virtually back online I’m now back online after my Xen virtual machine was migrated to another physical host. I can’t fault the performance and stability of Xen….
January 17, 2007 Churn baby churn As mentioned, today was set down as the big churn day. Well churn it did! I’m now on an Exetel 8Mbps ADSL service with…
January 15, 2007 Back to work, and linux.conf.au I returned to work after the summer holidays today only to have about a gazillion e-mails in my inbox waiting to be deleted. If…
January 12, 2007 Let the churn begin Not satisfied with my existing 1.5Mbps ADSL from Westnet I decided to churn to a 8Mbps with Exetel upon advice from a friend. I…
January 9, 2007 Lovin’ change and holidays What better way to spend some of your holiday time than giving your blog a makeover. I’ve redesigned the front-end with the Nonzero theme…
December 22, 2006 Keep it up KDE media relations My hat goes off to Hamish Rodda, KDE’s Oceania representative and media relations person. I approached Hamish with this idea kicking around in my…
December 10, 2006 What, Web TV? I made my debut as a TV (well, Web TV) reporter last week. Shucks, as it’s such a brave new area for me I…