Author Archives: Michael Wyres

Gold Class IPTV

Anyone who has a modern TV capture card in their computer will probably be aware – (depending on software) – that whatever your card is capturing, can be streamed onto the network. Some do it well, some not so well. In the midst of the project I’m working on at the moment, here is the […]

More Corporate Fail

It must just be my week for encountering pointless corporate behaviour. Hot on the heels of the Hewlett Packard packaging debacle, I received the following statement from GE Finance today: Thank you GE Finance! Thank you for wasting time, money, effort, and paper to send me an account for such an amount!

HP Shipping Fail – You Just Have to See This!

The large project I am working on at the moment requires a great deal of hardware to accomplish. Over the last few days we received a large – (or so it seemed) – shipment from Hewlett Packard. Several pallet loads of equipment arrived via Qantas Freight from HP’s regional facility in Singapore. Let us go […]

Spelling Mystery…Unsloved

Stumbled across this impressive piece of proofreading fail via Claudia Aitch at claudiaaitch.wordpress.com: The mystery of Channel Seven’s missing spellchecker is, umm, “unsloved”. Or unsolved. One or the other.

Chicken What?

I’ve long been a fan of Engrish.com. It is probably somewhat politically incorrect, but it is often so funny, that not laughing is a very difficult task. “Engrish” is the term given to the use of English words and phrases as decorative fare on products and services in non-English speaking countries, in particular in Asian […]

New Link Shortener!

As the next stage of a series of updates and changes I will be making to my site, tonight I unveil my new link-shortening URL. Shortened links will now appear with the “mwyr.es” domain, adding a little more personality to my ramblings. Stay tuned for more updates over the coming weeks.

Google Street View Face Recognition Fail

In the wake of claims from Senator Stephen Conroy a little over a year ago about Google committing the biggest privacy breach in history in the midst of collecting updated data for their StreetView service – (which the Privacy Commissioner later basically dismissed as rubbish) – as a goodwill gesture, Google promised to make sure […]

Shitty Facebook Follow

Buying a bag of our usual cat litter this evening, I was somewhat perplexed by the invitation on the outside to follow the brand on Facebook. Really? Do I really want to follow our preferred brand of cat litter on Facebook? So every time one of our cats follows through, I can follow too? Or […]

Bomber Chapters Of My Life

Having pulled off a series of inspirational wins in 2011, Essendon supporters have definitely gotten value for their money this year – and none was better than the gutsy defeat of the previously unbeaten Geelong several weeks ago, as shown below: Sitting in my usual seat, it came after a couple of difficult weeks in […]

NBN: The National Barnaby Network

Whilst reading this excellent article from David Havyatt in regards to the piecemeal alternative to the National Broadband Network (NBN) offered by Malcolm Turnbull yesterday, I followed a reference David provided to a 2005 report prepared by the Page Research Centre. Future-proofing Telecommunications in Non-Metropolitan Australia Most interestingly, the deputy chairman of the research panel […]