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August 20, 2009

Virtualisation Smackdown next Wed 26 August

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20August

I’m pretty excited, I gotta say, about this month’s Sydney Business & Technology User Group meeting – we’re having a Virtualisation Smackdown! It’s this coming Wednesday, starting at 6pm. Here’s the details: Date: Wed 26 August 2009 Time: 6pm – 9pm Location: Microsoft, North Ryde (map) Web: www.sbtug.com Phone: 0413 489 388 (call me if you get there after 6pm and need to get it)...

December 13, 2008

Microsoft iPhone Apps

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13December

As Mashable and TechCrunch report, Microsoft is testing the waters with the iPhone App market, releasing a a little app: Seadragon Mobile (here’s the official announcement on the Live Labs blog). The app (available for free on iTunes App Store, allows you to browse Deep Zoom images effortlessly. Check out the simple 42 second demo on the blog. And for more on Seadragon itself, check this out...

October 25, 2008

Parallel Computing

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25October

Boring history prologue I started playing with ‘computers’ back in the days when they came with 3K of memory (Vic 20 anyone?). And thank goodness I was too young to have experienced the punch card era… They quickly scaled up so that by the time I was at uni, 16MB of RAM was becoming standard. Fast forward to today and we can buy consumer notebooks with 16GB of RAM. Never in our wildest uni...

September 7, 2008

TECHED: Lock note – Predicting the next 10 years in IT

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07September

Easily the best TechEd lock note I’ve seen (but then again I’ve only been to TechEd 4 times). Miha Kralj talked us through the technology changes we’ll be seeing over the next few years. If you get a chance to see his presentation (I’m sure it will be repeated at other events, or put up on a video site somewhere) make sure you do – it is well worth it. It’s difficult to do the session...

July 3, 2008

ISP: iiNet spreads the love

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03July

I’m not really one for writing critical posts – frankly I just don’t have the energy… But I’m also not really one for saying thank you either – and this is something I really should be doing more of. Sure, there’s heaps of minor irritations every day, but in the scheme of things I think I’ve got it pretty good. And on top of all the big good things...

May 16, 2008

OPINION: The Death of Gen Y

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16May

The whole Gen Y thing really intrigues me. On one hand I think the concept behind Gen Y is a complete myth, and on the other I think there is something compelling we can learn from. In this post I cover the following: why Gen Y is a useless categorisation why I think the IT crash is coming soon why Gen Y will be especially disadvantaged, and some suggestions for how we can all best survive...

May 11, 2008

Grand Theft Auto 4 sells $500M in first week

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11May

Yep, half a billion. Not that anyone really needed convincing, but computer games are big business. This one eclipsed the record set by Halo 3 last year. And games are only going to get better. Interestingly – but I can’t find the reference (send me the link if you know it) – I was told last week that the average age of a gamer these days is 37 (this link from 2 years ago pegs...

April 8, 2008

Important Microsoft announcement… about Mouses

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08April

I’m assuming you subscribe to Microsoft’s Press Release feed right? Well, for the one, or possibly two people world wide who don’t, I just wanted to make sure you are alerted to this highly important development. You will be overjoyed to learn that the Wireless Optical Notebook Mouse 3000 will be available in five colours as of May. And not any old colours. But...

March 18, 2008

SitePoint HTML and CSS References

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18March

You’ve no doubt used SitePoint before. So I probably don’t need to tell you about their excellent CSS Reference. And it’d be silly to think you don’t also know about their freshly released HTML Reference. Great resources.
Technorati Tags: SitePoint, CSS, HTML, Reference

February 13, 2008

On reducing spam

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13February

Alan Lee gives an overview of how we reduced our spam email count here at Elcom. Interestingly, Alan found that 95% of all our email was spam – a figure that matched with reports I mentioned earlier in the year. The numbers: In the first week of implementing the changes we blocked 206,563 emails out of a total of 217,768 emails. Alan sent me an internal email with calculations of the cost...

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