Author Archives: Michael Wyres

Site Re-Location

Over the next 24 hours or so, this site will be relocating to a different hosting provider. If you are reading this version of this article, you are now visiting the site from its new location. I wish to take this opportunity to thank my previous provider, The Kilbot Factory, for all of their awesome support […]

NBN: The RFD and the ICMD Agreements

In this the sixth and penultimate 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 second and third of the agreements between Telstra and the Commonwealth – the Retraining Funding Deed (RFD) and the Information Campaign and Migration Deed […]

NBN: TUSMA Agreement

After a short break – (other commitments have kept me busy for the last week) – here is the next and fifth instalment of my series on the recently signed Telstra/NBN Co deal. Today I will highlight what I believe are the interesting and/or important parts of the first of the agreements between Telstra and […]

Newspaper Fail With Principle

Just stumbled across this article talking about a “principle” who has stated that students are unfairly labelled as bullies. Should that be “principal”? Obviously the headline writer didn’t follow the “principle” of getting a good education and learning how to spell “principal”. Fail.

Joan Kirner or Chicken Pox?

Saw this outside my office window on Friday afternoon – and could not help but wonder whether this was former Victorian premier Joan Kirner out for a quick drive in the city, or a bad case of chicken pox? Why would ANYONE do that to their car?

V/Line: The Cleanup Progresses!

If you stopped by my site yesterday, you would have caught a set of images I took onboard my regular 16:37 V/Line service to North Geelong. It was pretty gross. Well, 24 hours on – guess what happened? Same carriage…1207 from V/Locity set VL07…and they’ve attempted to clean it up. I guess they tried at […]

Your Train Is Ready For Boarding!

Boarding my regular 16:37 Southern Cross to North Geelong service this evening, I discovered this in the front most carriage. Nice, isn’t it? Want a closer look? The worst part was that a conductor walked through the carriage, saw the mess, and did nothing about it. This train was NOT ready for boarding. Lift your […]

NBN – Access Deed

In the fourth 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 fourth of the eight individual agreements – the Access Deed (AD). All descriptions are taken from the Telstra release to the ASX. As a summary, the AD […]

Getting Old, Need Glasses

At my regular annual eye check last week – (pretty much compulsory for a diabetic) – it was suggested that I should probably be getting classes for closeup work – (reading, computer, etc). Ordered Saturday, arrived today. Nice work SpecSavers!

Fogging Hell!

Having spent most of today in a training session in Werribee – (very handy for a Geelong resident!) – I was rather surprised to emerge and discover the ridiculous fog hanging around. Fog is common in this part of the world at this time of the year…but in the MORNINGS, and not at 5pm in […]