Author Archives: Michael Wyres

Untruths More Painful Than Reality

I’ve not exactly been myself this week. I do know exactly why that is, but I also can’t and won’t talk about why – at least not in a public forum. To all my family and friends, if I have been short with you in any way this week, I apologise. For our closest friends […]

Spam Scam Coming Through a Portal Near You!

Some minutes ago, I noticed that my spam filters had successfully blocked an email purporting to come from one of my secondary email addresses, addressed to my primary email address. Well done spam filters! Amused, I sent this tweet, stating: “I must have pissed myself off somwhere/somehow…one of my email addresses is sending spam to […]

Dell Email Database Breached

This evening it was reported that Australian customers of global computer manufacturer Dell, may have been part of a security breach in which their name and email address have been exposed to hackers. I received the following email warning from Dell: Are you affected? If you’ve ever done business with Dell which included the supply […]

Via Broadband Fail

ABC News 24, the round the clock television news service from Australia’s ABC has developed the annoying habit of delivering news/press conferences “via broadband”, with generally bad results – audio breakup, pixelation, complete drop outs – such as this example when the Coalition announced their broadband policy in the lead up to the last election. […]

Alexander Downer: Bitch

In what many are seeing as an extraordinary spray against regional Australia, former Liberal opposition leader and Foreign Minister Alexander Downer has stated: “If SA Cricket Association members vote down the Adelaide Oval redevelopment project then it will consign our city to mediocrity and provincialism worthy of Geelong or Newcastle.” Not to be outdone, Geelong’s […]

NBN: Who Wants Five Grand?

With the recent passing of the legislation enabling the National Broadband Network (NBN), you might be excused for thinking the debate might be starting to settle down a fair bit. Not so, it would seem. If anything, it has flared up even more in the last couple of weeks, and with the cancellation of the […]

Professional Commenter or Birdbrained?

Having a quick browse of the local news before sitting down for dinner this evening, I found myself chuckling at a comment posted against this story about a concept car for the upcoming new Mad Max sequel, Fury Road, found in the Geelong Advertiser. Says “Jo of Geelong”: “HHHHHHMMMMMM!!!!!!! if only Ford would use their […]

NBN Legislation Passes – Now Get On With It!

After a marathon session in the House of Representatives, the legislation enabling the National Broadband Network passed into law, requiring only royal ascension from the Governor-General. Whether or not you are a supporter of the NBN, the bottom line is that the NBN is now law, and it is now time to let Mike Quigley […]

Newspaper Fail: Why Bother?

When reading this article in regards to potential changes to taxi regulations in Victoria, I found myself asking – “why bother?” – when looking at the accompanying picture. Someone took the time to blank out the taxi number of the front vehicle, but not the others! Why bother taking the time to block the first […]

Footy Is Back – Maths Ability Is Not

Great to see that football is back for 2011, though some at the AFL have clearly started the new season without their mathematical abilities in tact: Surely Collingwood’s score of 12 goals and 2 behinds totals 74 points, and not 37? And surely Port Adelaide’s score of 3 goals and 5 behinds equals 23 points, […]