January 2, 2009 Splashing out at Avoca Beach We went to Avoca Beach for an early morning swim and snorkel on New Year’s Day. Avoca Beach was picture perfect. The water was…
December 26, 2008 Happy holidays I was so busy leading up to the holiday season I didn’t have time to blog. Anyway, here I am again. Have a happy…
November 12, 2008 Hotmail and Linux: an icy relationship There are a few whispers going around the Internet about Microsoft “breaking” its Hotmail service for Linux users. I can confirm from first-hand experience…
October 10, 2008 RIP camcorder My Canon MV550i video camera died a sudden (and presumably painless) death the other week. No warning, no goodbye, just nothing when I turned…
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…
September 15, 2008 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…
August 25, 2008 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…
July 30, 2008 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…
July 10, 2008 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,…
June 21, 2008 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…
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…
April 18, 2008 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…
March 17, 2008 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…
March 4, 2008 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…
February 17, 2008 Digital TV on Linux = aaargghh!!! A blogged previously, over the holidays I built a Linux-based PVR with the anticipation of recording TV when I’m out and watching the programs…
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…
January 20, 2008 Routing problems @ Exetel My friendly ISP is experiencing some routing problems. I lodged a support ticket yesterday indicating I could not reach my blog from Telstra’s ADSL…
January 15, 2008 Back at work The time arrived this week for my summer break to end and for me to go back to work. It’s good to be back,…
December 15, 2007 Summer holidays – yay! My working year for 2007 is over and I’m now officially on annual leave for the next four weeks. I’ll be spending most of…
December 2, 2007 Well done David Bradbury, and competition With another federal election behind us it was good to see a former high school colleague, David Bradbury win a place in Parliament House….