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…
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 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 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…
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 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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
February 19, 2006 Keeping IT trucking It’s a big congrats to the team driving Western Australia’s technology roadshow for making a visible effort to bridge the digital divide. They really…
February 14, 2006 Everything handhelds @ 3GSM Some interesting announcements coming out of the 3GSM World Congress in Spain this week. Among the most interesting is Sony Ericsson’s inevitable assault on…
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 –…