I’d like to apologise to those who were searching for my annual live Super Bowl blog commentary. This year I had some pressing work engagements which meant I was unable to record my usually droll Super Bowl comments and thoughts. I had the game on in the background to keep […]
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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 […]
We just wound up another January 26th in the fair country of Australia. A public holiday for all, as the nation remembers and celebrates the landing of British sailers of the First Fleet who landed at Sydney cove on this same date, back in 1788. There’s been talk of changing […]
Word from our friends in the United Kingdom – (1) an interview with Hugh Griffiths, Microsoft UK – as Microsoft launches it’s new MSN Mobile Music. You really have to appreciate the commentary that the (2) Slashdot folks have going on – it’s hilarious 🙂 I’ve posted entries before decrying […]
Hi All, This week I’m in Sydney until Wednesday night, so there’s a pause on new blog entries until I get back to Brisbane. The flavour of this week is to spend as much time as possible doing face-to-face meetings and whiteboarding sessions to get new ideas, approaches and solutions […]
Regular readers might be hampering for a technical post soon – and you won’t be disappointed. I’ve got the next SDS article (binary data) as well as another few in a series on the ADO Entity Framework (stay tuned for those ones), but I’m going to take the time to […]
Was down at a good second hand record store today where I picked up a copy of this long out of print double LP (1) “The Story of The Who” in excellent condition. It’s good to find the odd rarity, and the records play really well – nice and loud. […]
After our recent sojourn home to Canberra and back, I managed to acquire a number of copies of a South Australian paper (Adelaide-based) “The Register” from between August – October 1914. Apparently the newspaper is no longer in circulation. Searching the National Library, I’ve found an entry for the Adelaide […]
Happy New Year! Let’s hear a rendition of Auld Lang Syne and drink merrily! Best wishes from Brisbane, Australia and to celebrate here are some photos I took of the Brisbane New Years fireworks spectacular – punctuated by additional celebrations as Queensland commemorates its 150th birthday this year (150 years […]
In what probably was only a matter of time, hackers in the US and Europe have apparently found a way to hack a known weakness in the (1) MD5 algorithm (using a known (2) MD5 collision construction found a while ago) using 200 PlayStation 3 (PS3) consoles and a few […]
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 […]
G’day Everyone, My wife and I are about to head off into the Christmas holidays with our family and friends. 2008 has been a very challenging and engaging year. From my perspective, it has been a combination of equal highs and lows. This year we relocated from Sydney to Brisbane, […]
…I’m waiting at the airport because Virgin Blue decided to cancel my 17:00 flight home. It has been a hectic two days but extremely worthwhile even though I’ve missed the company of my beautiful wife. Luckily I’ll be home soon at any rate. We’ve got a good team assembled in […]
For your viewing pleasure, some aerial pictures of Sydney, NSW, Australia. Our first two pictures are from a northern approach- We can see Manly beach at the bottom of the first shot, with the city and North Sydney towards the top of the picture as well as the Sydney Harbour […]
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 […]