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…
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…
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…
November 10, 2007 Back to good old Netscape Becoming more than fed up with the unstable Firefox on my Windows PC at work, I installed the original Netscape browser. Does anyone not…
October 15, 2007 Broadband speed bump After my previous bitching and moaning about the speed of my new ADSL2+ connection, a routine upgrade surprised the hell out of me today….
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
January 29, 2006 Jabber gibberish I signed up for a Jabber account with KDE’s community Jabber server – KDETalk.net. So anyone who uses Jabber for IM can reach me…
December 13, 2005 Don’t fear the media A couple of months back I attended a seminar by Google Maps’ (now Local) lead engineer Lars Rasmussen.
October 30, 2005 Skype me! As many of my readers would now know, I’ve finally succumbed to all the sky-high hype and installed Skype on my SuSE notebook. Thanks…
October 9, 2005 Meet The Matrix effects wizard John Gaeta This year’s Networkers conference final day keynote presentation was delivered by John Gaeta, a visual effects designer for The Matrix trilogy. This intrepid blogger…
August 25, 2005 PR meets the WWW (so more blogs please) Check out Constantin Basturea’s blog titled PR meets the WWW for a nice insight into the PR blogsphere. I don’t know Constantin but have…
August 7, 2005 Deer Park: the next generation Firefox Pulled down the Deer Park Alpha 2 release of the Firefox Web browser over the weekend. I’m using Deer Park on my G3 iBook…