The IEEE Society and Internet Society of Australia (ISOC-AU) are presenting two free public seminars on recent developments in the Internet sphere including the “Kill Switch” used in Egypt and Libya, Wikileaks and beyond. This should prove a very timely event, given the recent developments concerning the Internet, and I’m […]
Monthly archives: February 2011
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Hi Everyone, We’ll be travelling back to Australia for about a week and a half from this Wednesday (24th of February), and we’ll be splitting time between Canberra and Sydney. Thursday, we’ll land in Sydney and then we’ll be in Canberra until Saturday. On late Saturday and Sunday, we’ll be […]
This morning I was trawling through a variety of websites as I usually do, and I came across an article which referenced this website called Qualys, where they have a tool called BrowserCheck. The site basically scans your web browser for vulnerabilities based on plugins which are installed. Assuming you […]
Right now, for various reasons, I’m “between projects” after relocating to China for a business venture which ultimately didn’t work out. The timing couldn’t have been worse, right on December with virtually no prospect of finding alterative employment – especially whilst being located deep in China. It is now mid […]
As you may know, tropical cyclone Yasi roared through far north Queensland on Australia’s east coast during the week. A category 5 cyclone, wind speeds were recorded in excess of 250 kms/hr and the eye of the storm was estimated to be almost 35kms in size, and the bulk of […]
There are two sites I own which use the very nice BlogEngine.net blogging engine, and over time they’ve been constantly harassed by increasing amounts of spam comments. Usually the sort of nonsensical garbage which is just trying to link harvest or some other mundane and stupid way to boost external […]