[Australia's] Telco leaders unite to pan NBN & lobby for ubiquitous wireless ‘NBN 3.0′ (iTWire, 31 August 2010): Executives from seven of Australia’s telcos have united to lobby against the NBN, claiming Australia’s broadband future is best left to the market, and best served by ubiquitous wireless coverage. They have formed the Alliance for Affordable [...]
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A few weeks back, I unexpectedly received a letter of invitation to the launch of a digital library system organised by the Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind. Surprisingly, it was written in the name of Prime Minister John Key. What??? For a moment I thought it was some sort of a prank because [...]
I wrote about spam comments hitting this blog a while ago. Both spam and spam-fighting tools have come a long way since then. Now a must-have plugin called WP-SpamFree scans all incoming comments and automatically trashes what it regards as spam although I don’t know (nor do I want to know) what the exact algorithm [...]
Here’s documentary evidence of the fact that life isn’t fair: “Once there was a man who went out early in the morning to hire some men to work in his vineyard. He agreed to pay them the regular wage, a silver coin a day, and sent them to work in his vineyard. He went out [...]
While project management is not my job description, I acknowledge that it is a sensitive subject that plays a major role in determining the profitability of a team, particularly in a vendor environment where the team provides services to an external client. In a small project where its size does not warrant a dedicated project [...]
I just learned that Paul Kangas of Nightly Business Report, a PBS production and my favourite television (now over the Internet) programme, had his final appearance as co-anchor on 31 December, 2009, marking the end of his 30-year career on the show. I have been a fan of both Paul Kangas and his co-anchor Susie [...]
Whenever a significant change is made to SharePoint content or configurations, it’s a jolly good idea to check to see if everything is still hunky-dory. In the life of a SharePoint guy/gal, any one of the following may constitute a “significant” change: Applying a hotfix, Cumulative Update, or Service Pack Creating a new SharePoint application, [...]
I have been observing a certain string of news headlines and editorials since the death of Michael Jackson: Google mistook Jackson searches for Net attack Michael Jackson memorial pushes Internet traffic to its limits Federal Web sites knocked out by cyber attack Report: NKorean army suspected over cyberattacks For Web apps, performance remains an uphill [...]
As with many other jobs, implementing or maintaining SharePoint requires an exceptional degree of attention to detail because, well, stuff happens. If an error occurs or a mistake is made inside a testing or staging environment before things go to production, it’s a good lesson. If that lesson is captured, documented, and learned, it becomes [...]
Think Libya. Think desert. According to the source, these are not oil-rich local Libyans but foreign labourers from other states of Africa. It’s easily 35 degrees Celsius in the shade and no, they are not in the shade. From what I can see, it doesn’t look like a 10-minute drive along St. Kilda Boulevard, either. [...]