Author Archives: Michael Wyres

V/Line – Could It Really Be True?

Regular followers of my tweets and blog posts will know that a subject I am, shall we say, “passionate” about is the performance – (or lack thereof) – of the customer service efforts of Victoria’s regional rail provider, V/Line. Any regular commuter with an ounce of common sense understands that things go wrong from time […]

ABC News 72

In a general sense, news tickers at the bottom of the screen on news channels annoy me. They often distract you from what is actually going on on the rest of the screen, and you end up missing what people say. It is even more annoying when the news being reported in the ticker is […]

A Tad Insensitive, Advertiser

Just caught a glimpse of this rather insensitive closing line of an article about the unfortunate death of a local man over the weekend in a workplace accident, in the Geelong Advertiser. Timber Crush Death “Are you the family of the deceased man?” Seriously? Poor form. My thoughts to the family.

NBN Will Not Require Rewiring!

Last week we were subjected to the ridiculous notion that the NBN was hacked. Of course, it wasn’t hacked in any way whatsoever – the story perpetuating from a piece of lazy and sensationalistic journalism, apparently from a staff writer at the Sydney Morning Herald. Another myth that has been floating around for a long […]

From The Vault: Last to First!

One more from the video collection, the last lap of the fabulous 1995 Tooheys 1000, on the first lap of which Larry Perkins collided with Craig Lowndes. The contact tore the tyre valve from the front left wheel of Perkins’ car, and after pitting for a new wheel and tyre and ending up more than […]

Our Customers Are Idiots: V/Line

Long suffering Geelong V/Line customers copped another penalty for trying to do the right thing and support public transport yesterday morning when the 4:43am service from Marshall to Melbourne’s Southern Cross Station ran out of fuel at Footscray, halting all trains behind it. This included metropolitan services on the Werribee and Williamstown lines, and caused […]

Best Office Practical Joke Ever!

Well, it’s not really a practical joke, but one could be forgiven for thinking this was. The tenancy across the way from our office is currently being gutted after the vacation of the previous tenant a few weeks ago. Work has been progressing at a fairly rapid rate, but perhaps something was forgotten? What’s that […]

The Australian FUDs It Again

There’s been a lot of rumbling, particularly since the 2010 Federal Election, in regards to a perceived media bias against the Australian Labor Party and its policies, particularly from Rupert Murdoch’s News Limited newspapers – most notably The Australian, our “national” paper. For me, their ongoing campaign, especially in the light of the News Of […]

Peter Brock – Has It Really Been Five Years?

It is really hard to imagine that it has been almost five years since we lost Peter Brock. The anniversary is only a matter of a little over a month away. Trawling through another section of my old video collection over the weekend, I found this interesting snippet of Brock being interviewed by Channel Seven’s […]

NBN – Commonwealth Guarantee

In this the final instalment of my series on the recently signed Telstra/NBN Co deal, I will highlight what I believe are the interesting and/or important parts of the last of the eight individual agreements – the Commonwealth Guarantee (CG). All descriptions are taken from the Telstra release to the ASX. As a summary, the […]