Musings

There have been frequent not-so-subtle attacks on social media (in particular, blogging and Twitter) by mainstream journalists in recent times and quite frankly, I’m sick of hearing about it.  There is hardly a day that goes by without reading the same old boring rhetoric coming from these ‘Traditional News Outlets’ […]

So if you’ve missed it some how, there’s been an interesting clip from Nine Raw – live reports from a shooting in King’s Cross on the weekend.  Here’s a link to the NineMSN article on the report.  Here’s the original footage:   This has quickly shot ‘round the globe courtesy […]

Republished mostly from this blog entry here.. Here’s my version of “Things Programmers Say..” “That’s weird….” “It’s never done that before.” “It worked yesterday.” “How is that possible?” “It must be a hardware problem.” “What did you type in wrong to get it to crash?” “There is something funky in […]

Welcome to my office.. Here is a view from the double doors leading inside.. Ahead is the main desk (with air conditioning and a nice large window behind).  There are some backpacks and satchels next to the whiteboard on the left hand side, below the Millennium Falcon (the collectors series […]

The (1) news is in that potentially the key crew of the fateful deep space mining vessel Red Dwarf could be rejoining to make some new episodes of the hit 90’s British Sci Fi show.  The show went a little sideways after cast and crew ventured to the US to […]

For the record, nothing is more obtrusive than when you are a tenant and your privacy is exposed through the harsh reality of a landlord selling the property.  We are faced with the trouble of defining the dubious distinction of ‘reasonable access’ with the sales agency, dealing with members of […]

Well folks, we’re not far from Christmas day once again.  The scary part this year is the realisation that next month marks the beginning of 2009 – in other words, the decade is almost over already. As a result,  it’s actually not a bad time to start thinking ahead to […]

Officially, Brisbane is enduring yet another summertime thunderstorm – yes, right now (well, when I wrote this entry at any rate).When the rest of the country (or, if you prefer, the world) sees this information it’s very likely they see this: Courtesy of the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) However, when […]

Since I’m rather unlikely to reach for the book on Windows for Workgroups or Red Hat 6.1 they went off to be recycled.  My general rule of thumb is that if it’s >10 years old, I probably don’t need it anymore. One exception to the rule (for example) is a […]

There’s a whole lot of options when it comes to social networking and online chats.  Some of the more recent popular attractions include Facebook and Twitter. I’ve previously blogged about LinkedIn and StackOverflow.  They all seem to have their uses, and I think you must be careful with how much […]

I recently posted this on Stack Overflow, thought I’d repost it here too. Some random advice on delivering technical presentations: Consider your audience. Is it an all technical audience? If you have a mix of technical and non-technical people, it’s a good idea to start at a high level (conceptual) […]

Sometimes in your life you have challenging, stressful and hurtful days, but somehow get through them.  They can be learning exercises for oh so many wrong reasons. These are the times you really want to crawl away and hide until no one notices you.  Something happens in those times and […]

…On why I like to drink Pinot Noir in addition to decent aged Shiraz.. I’d like to credit Paul Giamatti’s character Miles in the excellent movie "Sideways (2004)" for introducing me to the world of great Pinot from this little monologue: Miles Raymond: Uh, I don’t know, I don’t know. […]

The topic of how to improve Tech Ed (Australia) came up today from various avenues.  Me being me, I’ve decided to blog my comments/feedback. More in-depth sessions (make them longer if need be)!  Potentially half of the attendees work with the technology on a daily basis, we don’t need the […]

First and foremost, let me take the time to congratulate Readify’s own David Burela who is a member of this years winning team (in Australia) in the Imagine cup!   His team will go on to compete, representing Austgralia at the Imagine Cup world final in Paris later this year.  Excitement!  […]