It looks like the Cloud Wars are well and truly on, with Google announcing major price drops, AWS following suit, and Microsoft joining in with drops in Azure pricing to match those of AWS. It got me to wondering about how this might end up. Google has been in the… Read More
I recently upgraded my Samsung Galaxy S4 mobile phone to Android 4.3 and immediately noticed issues with Chrome. It would flicker, and show a blank, black screen when going into the “exploded tab” view that shows you all your open tabs. Selecting a tab, and scrolling within a window, would… Read More
In this interview with Chris Wahl, we cover why we don’t eat shrimp at 7am, how to pronounce Melbourne, and how he got involved with VMUGs in the first place. Listen in and learn how maybe one day you too could fly halfway around the world to present at a… Read More
I hooked up my MooresCloud Holiday to the stereo today so that I could sync up the light display with TripleJ’s Hottest 100 countdown. The Hottest 100 is a bit of a tradition for me; I’ve listened to it every year since 1993, and I have a few other personal… Read More
I touched on my mobile rig in my post on Daily Tools, so today, let’s dig into my mobile setup in a little more detail. My workhorse is my laptop, a Dell Latitude E5530 with SSD. SSD is blazingly fast and complements the Intel i7 chip in it nicely, as… Read More
These are the tools I use on a daily basis. I’ve left out all the specialist tools I use for highly specific tasks, as those aren’t things I do every single day, but I’ll use all of these for at least half and hour every day. Hardware My core mobile… Read More
At the core of my tech toolchest is my choice of operating system: Linux. I’ve used Linux as my primary desktop since I built one on a disused PC at my job at Vodafone in 1996, running Slackware. I first installed it on a laptop in the second half of… Read More
In an attempt to revive a tradition I’ve long abandoned, this post is a personal reflection on the year that was: 2013. Thinking on the past and expressing gratitude for good things that have happened makes you happier, according to research summarised in Professor Richard Wiseman’s book 59 seconds. It’s… Read More
I’m running on adrenaline and bottled water at Dell World 2013 at the moment. The flights over here were brutal. Really bad weather in DFW sent delays through the entire system, so my flight out of SYD was delayed by 5 hours. It meant I missed out on the #vBBQ… Read More
I interviewed Joe Kremer, VP South Asia/Australia/New Zealand, on camera at Dell Enterprise Forum, AU in November 2013. Unfortunately I only captured ambient audio for my notes and didn’t have a lapel mic or second mic source to capture my questions, so you get title blocks instead. My A/V editing… Read More
