November 14, 2006 IDG turns on the TV! Hooray for not-so-modern technology! IDG Australia entered the brave new world of Internet TV this week with the launch of Computerworld and PC World…
October 31, 2006 Get well Tony Just a quick post to say how shocked I was last month when I read about Tony Nugent being hit by a car. I…
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…
September 3, 2006 Lost in transplagiarism It seems that some IT news outfits aren’t being as transparent as they could be when it comes to citing sources for their articles….
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…
August 2, 2006 PR can’t help some People How can it be that businesses spend money on professional public relations but can’t even answer a simple customer inquiry? I just so happen…
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…
July 18, 2006 MSN Search out Googles Google It just occurred to me that Google may not be all it’s cracked up to be. I’ll show you what I mean. I want…
July 6, 2006 APC weaves in WordPress Despite its close ties to Microsoft, APC PC monthly Australian Personal Computer has rebuilt its Web site with the open source WordPress (read the…
June 24, 2006 Getting Slashdotted a few months months late While glancing over Slashdot today I was surprised to discover a story I wrote in November last year. As many of the commentators on…
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…
May 2, 2006 IDG adds RSS Just a quick note to tell the world IDG Australia now has RSS feeds for most of our news sources. Check them out here……
April 20, 2006 Kudos to KOffice I’d like to take this opportunity to give thanks and praise to a very special open source project – the KOffice project. KOffice turned…
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…