Author Archives: Michael Wyres

Flogging A Horse Until It Is Dead

Nobody doubts the amazing success of MasterChef Australia for Network Ten. A lot of people – myself NOT included – were clearly very interested in the show. Not content with the amazing ratings, we got hit with Celebrity MasterChef Australia – *yawn* – and Junior MasterChef Australia is expected to air in 2010, along with […]

From the Vault: New Essendon “Mayor”

Although pretty corny (really), here’s another classic snippet I’ve recovered out of my old video collection. On the Wednesday evening after the 1993 AFL Premiership win, here is captain Mark Thompson becoming the “Mayor of Essendon” for the day. Also included is some great footage of the boys lining up for the official team portrait. […]

Funny Spam of the Day

I run my own mail server, behind my own router and firewall in my own home. My filters work perfectly, and I get no spam. Some of the stuff my filters catch is hilarious. For example: Dear user of the michaelwyres.com mailing service!We are informing you that because of the security upgrade of the mailing […]

From The Vault: Bathurst 1993 in 8 Minutes!

Over the past couple of months, I’ve been digging through my old video collection, and found this little gem. I used to snap up the Seven Nightly News sports reports from Wednesday through Sunday of each year’s Bathurst week for posterity – knowing that there’s always little bits of footage and information you don’t get […]

New V8 Season Warming Up

With the move of Triple 8 to Holden for 2010, the new V8 season is getting warmed up, and the internet forums are alive with chatter and predictions. Bring it on!

Telstra Makes A U-Turn

Telstra has long argued that the structural separation of the wholesale and retail arms of their business was not in their best interest. That it would represent an unreasonable burden upon itself and its shareholders. Telstra Stands Firmly Opposed to “Unjust” Split Telstra have applied their virtual monopoly over the copper network in Australia since […]

Internet Censorship: Huge Opposition

Senator Conroy, speaking on the Sky News program “Sunday Business”, is under the illusion that because Telstra, Optus, and Primus hold 80% of the internet customers in Australia, and that they support his ridiculous internet filter, that 80% of Australian people support it? Huh? Did Telstra, Optus, and Primus ask every single one of their […]

Interesting View on Internet Copyright Court Case

The ongoing legal battle between iiNet and AFACT over the enforcement of AFACT’s copyright infringement notices is awaiting for verdict to be delivered in January. However, I have stumbled across an interesting comment in regards to this by the poster “netizen” in the comments of the following article: IIA to Hold Legal “Boot Camp” for […]

Internet Censorship: Let The Book Burning Begin

Well, it looks like the Krudd Government is set to try and introduce their ridiculous, anti-democratic net “filtering” plan. Despite public outrage. Despite reports that it doesn’t work, and cannot work. Despite reports that it will be completely ineffective in stopping people from getting to the “banned” sites anyway. Despite reports that it will slow […]

No Shit, Spammers!

I get a lot of pleasure when looking at my email inbox, as through the implementation of my own email filtering solution – (Project Odyssey) – I never actually receive any spam at all. Every single last piece of spam is neatly quarantined for me to check out. I got a real laugh out of […]