You Don’t Need Windows To See The Light

I have a confession to make.  My Windows loyalty is wavering.  For years I have been a dedicated Windows user but now the line in the sand isn’t as clear as it once was.
Windows has always treated me well and provided me with all (well most) of the tools that I need in my daily [...]

Tips for Business

My job at the moment is a multi-faceted role.  However it is predominately a customer service role with a little bit of everything else on the side.  Because of this, I’ve started thinking about and looking at customer service in a more critical way and the news isn’t good.  Most businesses have mediocre customer service [...]

Twitter

So after hearing about it on TV and various other places I did the completely boring and comformist thing: I got myself on Twitter. I know it’s totally unoriginal of me but I’m actually having a lot of fun with it. Plus, to make things even more fun, I got a Vista sidebar widget that [...]

Another Victory For Science

The news the other day contained this story (ABC):

Pope Benedict has paid tribute to the work of the 17th century astronomer Galileo Galilei, who was convicted of heresy by the Catholic Church in 1633.
In an address marking the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s earliest observations using a telescope, the Pope said an understanding of the laws [...]

National Theatre of Brent

Years ago, I saw purely by chance a few episodes of a comedy series on TV called “Massive Landmarks of the Twentieth Century”.  The series covered a range of landmark events in our history which highlight the massive achievements of 20th Century man.  The genius behind the series was the National Theatre of Brent; two [...]

A Whole New Job

At the beginning of the year I started in a new job moving from being simply an admin monkey to a Salary Packaging Consultant.  Whilst there are still admin type moments (particularly now whilst I learn the ropes) the focus of the job is more on customer service and my broader career outlook is now [...]

Adventures With Javascript Packer

Web developers, and others who use web based technologies to build applications upon, have always been keen to prevent end users seeing the business end of their applications.  Early on in the history of the web - during JavaScript’s first boom - there were plenty of scripts which created annoying functions like stopping users left [...]

All Quiet On The Nici Front

For fans of our associated Nici site (nici.thestable.info) you will probably have noticed that no new content has gone up recently. Things died down over the holiday period and I was expecting to clean up my drawing ‘to-do’ list in January, however what I wasn’t expecting was a new job.
Fear not! New Nici [...]

Traditional Idea, Techno Twist

More and more secondary schools in Australia are adopting a Learning Management System to allow students to access vital information online but also providing functionality for testing and reporting and alike.  Delivering content online, as supplementary to traditional teacher-student contact, is a fantastic use of technology and screams of benefits for both teachers and students.
While [...]

Internet Filters - Protect Yourself

If you don’t know already, the Australian Government is planning on introducing a national web filter to ‘protect’ Australians from the perils of the Internet (Electronic Frontiers Australia, No Clean Feed, Whirlpool).  This is despite the negative findings of a report the government itself commissioned and despite the scathing criticism from network experts, ISP’s, end [...]