Category Archives: Technology

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

Internet Explorer Slipping?

I am an avid watcher of the statistics of visits to my websites, because a wide range of interesting trends may be visible before they are widely recognised, particularly in terms of browser use. In recent months, I’ve been looking closely at the percentage of visits to my sites from various web browsers, and I […]

Online Piracy Not The Problem

There has been a lot of discussion in recent weeks, following the apparent culmination of the so-called iiTrial – in which national Australian ISP iiNet successfully defended itself against an accusation by AFACT of facilitating and doing nothing to prevent the theft of copyrighted material by its customers. AFACT themselves recently released a report claiming […]

Important Twitter Security Enhancement

Twitter today announced a new security feature enabling HTTPS for all web connections to the service. HTTPS is a secure/encrypted version of the standard web protocol, HTTP. This follows similar recent changes by Facebook. Using HTTPS where possible/available is important – it means that all your communications with the Twitter site are encrypted end-to-end from […]

On A Personal Note: NBN Concerns

It has come to my attention that my name appears in the blogroll of the site “NBN Concerns”. While it is somewhat flattering that people find my thoughts and discussions in regards to the National Broadband Network (NBN) valuable and/or interesting, I wish to clearly state for the record that I am in no way […]

The Sheep Is Dead – Long Live the Sheep

It is a common expression in this country that the foundation of our economy “rides on the back of the sheep”, referring to our long and proud agricultural history, with the “sheep’s back” statement particularly related to our wool industry. The National Broadband Network (NBN) has undoubtedly become one of the hottest politicial stories of […]