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Ferry Flight 6: Thailand to Vietnam
Today the mission was to travel from Chiang Rai (Thailand) to Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam). It was a (relatively) shorter flight for us today – Chiang Rai to Ho Chi Minh City was ‘only’ about 3.6 hours...
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Rediscovering Old Computers
When I was in the USA a few months ago, I watched some episodes of a ‘reality’ (and I use the term loosely) show on A&E called ‘Storage Wars’. People’s abandoned storage lockers auctioned off and...
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Successfully deploying IPv6 in Australia
On October 18th 2012 in Melbourne, I delivered a presentation about the history and current deployment status of IPv6 into the national customer base of Internode. If you’re interested, you can take a...
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CommsDay Sydney 2013 Summit: The Problem With FTTN
Today I delivered a talk at the CommsDay Sydney 2013 Summit about National Broadband Network policy. Given that the major federal political parties have clearly explained policies about the NBN heading...
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2013 NBN Policy demystified (video)
I’ve just come across a video clip released today that de-mystifies the current NBN policy alternatives in less than 3 minutes. Thought you might enjoy it as much as I did
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Building a Fibre NBN on a Copper budget
On 17th July 2013 I delivered a talk at the CommsDay Wholesale and Data Centre Summit in Sydney about the NBN called “The Ideal Wholesale NBN Market”. This talk proposes just a few of the many ways in...
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A blast from the past : Internode and Agile in 2002
Well, here’s a bit of a blast from the past. I came across a couple of recordings of short TV programs aired back in 2002 about Agile and Internode. The first one is about the Agile ‘Coorong Project’ –...
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iMessage in IOS 7 loses link with your mobile number – and how to fix it
Like many other iPhone users, I upgraded to IOS 7 pretty much as soon as it came out. There’s a subtle bug that seems to be impacting many people who upgraded early in the piece, such that iMessage has...
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HFC in the National Broadband Network
HFC, the NBN, and the meaning of life With the release of the NBNCo Strategic Review earlier this week, I’ve seen some very significant misunderstandings (and consequent angst) expressed about the...
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Thoughts about my transition from Internode to NBNCo
Back on November 27th 2013, I found myself with a speaking role in a live performance event. The event was called “Cutaway – a Ceremony“, and it was held at the home of the Vitalstatistix Theatre...
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Technology at Zurich Airport
I have come across some interesting technology items at Zurich airport today, on my way out to London. A few other points about Zurich airport first… Its clean, in a typically Swiss manner. Likewise,...
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The NBN destination is worth the journey
Here is a recording of an interview I did with Charlie Brown for his “Life and Technology” show, aired on Radio 2GB on Saturday 2nd August 2014....
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Of startups and electric cars
Here is a recording of an interview I did with Charlie Brown for his “Life and Technology” show. This was aired on Radio 2GB on Saturday 9th August 2014....
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RMIT Talking Technology podcast
I had a nice chat with Garry Barker for an RMIT University Podcast series called “Talking Technology”. We talked (yes, again :) ) about my favourite hot-button items – startups, innovation and...
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Rebooting the NBN: (Personal) Reflections on the journey thus far
On 4th September 2014 I delivered a talk at the AusNOG 2014 technology conference in Sydney about the NBN called “Rebooting the NBN: (Personal) Reflections on the journey thus far”. Here is the PDF...
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15 Megabits Is Not Enough
There are a lot of bogus memes – false statements claimed to be statements of truth – that are doing the rounds about the Australian National Broadband Network. In addition, as this classic xdcd...
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Tesla Model S arrival
Its been a long time coming. Back in 2012 I ordered a Tesla Motors Model S, on the day they were announced. I believe that my car was order #69 in the world, and at the time there was no guarantee when...
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Tesla Model S as a software innovation platform
Back in 2007, I was fortunate to be in the audience in San Francisco’s Moscone Center when Steve Jobs stood up and released the first version of the Apple iPhone. That device genuinely raised the bar....
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New Net, New Grid – FiRe 2015
In October this year I had the pleasure of having an in depth conversation about how the new energy grid and the new Internet grid is starting to evolve – and about the interesting similarities and...
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Internode NBN HFC using an Apple Airport Extreme as the site router
I installed an Internode NBN HFC service in an apartment a few months ago. It comes with a Huawei HG659 router, attached to the NBN standard issue Arris HFC cable modem. I really don’t like that...
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