{"id":274,"date":"2009-07-23T17:03:37","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T07:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=274"},"modified":"2009-07-23T17:03:37","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T07:03:37","slug":"nbn-sydney-being-petty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2009\/07\/nbn-sydney-being-petty\/","title":{"rendered":"NBN: Sydney Being Petty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the initial foundation steps of the NBN now starting to happen, competition is heating up between Brisbane, Melbourne, and Sydney as to which city will host the network&#8217;s headquarters.<\/p>\n<p><center>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"80%\" cellpadding\t=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n  <tr>\n    <td class=\"linkbox\"><a class=\"linkboxtext\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/CbcSZ\">Sydney the Logical Spot for Broadband HQ: Rees<\/td>\n  <\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/center>\n<\/p>\n<p>But why does this need to get into a petty Melbourne versus Sydney argument?  I quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;Sydney&#8217;s track record of delivering big projects is a clear advantage over other cities &#8211; we delivered the Olympics, not the Commonwealth Games.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh please!  That&#8217;s just childish &#8211; the Olympics was one event NINE years ago, and has nothing to do with the ability or otherwise to run a national network!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the initial foundation steps of the NBN now starting to happen, competition is heating up between Brisbane, Melbourne, and Sydney as to which city will host the network&#8217;s headquarters. Sydney the Logical Spot for Broadband HQ: Rees But why does this need to get into a petty Melbourne versus Sydney argument? I quote: &#8220;Sydney&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[368],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-nbn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}