Author Archives: Michael Wyres

Smiley Happy Beijing!

Gotta love this sign, seen in the lead-up to the start of the Beijing Olympics. The only thing missing is a “Hello Kitty!” reference!

Internet Censorship?

While maintaining the internet as a safe place for all people, particularly children, is very important, current trials in Australia to implement internet filtering at the ISP level concerns me somewhat. Conroy Welcomes ISP Filtering Having worked in Information Technology for nearly 15 years, and most recently having worked at an ISP, I would be […]

Satisfaction!

There is nothing better in football for an Essendon fan to beat Carlton or Collingwood. In recent weeks, Essendon has done both of those things. Knights Savours Most Satisfying Win Essendon struggled in the early part of the season. A new coach and new game plan still settling in with the players. Now, with some […]

NBN Beginning To Take Shape

The impending National Broadband Network (NBN) is beginning to take shape, at least in the tender period. Australia has been far behind other countries in internet connectivity, and planning for the NBN, as postulated by the then-incoming Rudd federal government in November 2007 is moving a quite rapidly. Melbourne Club’s Broadband Bid Many Australians still […]

Fingers In The Cookie Jar

Over the recent US Memorial Day weekend, popular internet media site Revision3 was brought down by an apparent DDOS attack, launched by MediaDefender. Inside The Attack That Crippled Revision3 As you can read in the article posted by Revision3 CEO, Jim Louderback, MediaDefender were apparently deliberately attacking and abusing Revision3’s BitTorrent distribution servers. When the […]

All New Look And Feel!

Welcome back to the new-look michaelwyres.com. As much as I wanted to keep running with the content management system (CMS) that I designed and wrote myself, my ever increasing time pressures have hampered my maintenance of the code, and have lead me to move to a commonly available package. Not all of the old content […]

Super Matt Returns To V8 Supercars

V8 Supercar fans will remember Matt Neal – the man who severely damaged a Paul Morris Motorsport Commodore during it’s shakedown appearance in 2001, and even more memorably, overtook some front running cars at Bathurst in 2000, while being lapped. Here’s a look back at that incident, which is again causing shudders amongst the fans, […]

More Bandwidth For Australia

After years of reliance on the Southern Cross Cable, and Telstra, Australia is about to receive a third major backhaul data connection to the rest of the world, with the official announcement of PPC-1. ISPs Get A Slice Of Guam Cable Though PPC-1 has been common knowledge in the communications world for some time, the […]

Don’t Fool With James Hird

Here’s a fun video of James Hird undergoing a fitness test at Windy Hill during his final season. Since the demolition of the southern part of the ground, it’s pretty easy to get to the oval from the road outside. And as these gentlemen with the video camera soon discover, a “closed training session”, really […]

Knight Rider Exposed?

Possibly my favourite TV show of all time was Knight Rider. Aside from the fact that it starred David Hasselhoff – please don’t hold that against it – it was a pretty cool show for it’s time. One of the regular stunts was having KITT drive on and off FLAG’s roving workshop, in the back […]