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Working from home

I woke up today with “some issues” and instead calling in sick, I called my boss and asked to work from home.  Just don’t ask what the issues were, ok?

Working from home is a great idea!

I VPN to my work PC and voila, I was back at work virtually…  You More >

CAPTCHA what?

A few students from an American university in 2000 came up with this acronym Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. CAPTCHA is an automated and random way of generating a simple challenge-response test to make sure the response is not from another computer or computer program. More >

Offshore IT support – Painfully slow…

This is my extremely poor experience with an international IT company providing technical support.

I work in the IT industry supporting databases at a large organisation. Recently there were some difficult issues with one of our critical databases and we needed assistance from the vendor, a very large global database company. More >

Faster broadband in Australia?

Sorry mate, you might have to wait till 2020…  hahaha…  What a joke!  I am crying now… 

The federal government has extended the completion date to 2020 for the National Broadband Network (NBN).  Apparently there was some agreement between some MPS that the bush and the city folks have to pay More >

Mobile phones safe?

Mobile and smart phones are very common these days, even school kids have them.  Instead of running around and playing with friends, the kids are now texting and social bookmarking. Aiyor, what is the world coming to? Earlier this week, I watched a documentary about a young lady having a golf-ball-sized More >

US hosting down again

Not happy Jan!

I have just created another website that is hosted in the US by a big and well known hosting company 2 weeks ago.  Since then, I have noticed at least on three occasions, the other website has been unreachable.

I called the support team and they advised there is More >

ipad or netbook

ipad or netbook?

My better half asked me earlier today “Honey, should I get an ipad or netbook?”

Hmmm…  Its not really that difficult to answer.

The only one and important question is “What does she need it for?”

She needs to do what she does normally at home but may need to bring a small More >

Blardy hackers!

Saturday morning, I received an email from my Australian hosting company advising this website has been hacked.  Typed oioioi.id.au in my browser and a different page showed up.  What the! My website has been defaced by some hacker in Turkey! Did a few giggly searches and found that a few people on More >

Useful iPhone App

We were at our friend’s new house on the weekend. It was a nice big house but there were no Internet access as they have just moved in and were waiting for the telephone company to install the phone line.

It was time for dinner.   Someone suggested pizza and no More >

technorati token

Technorati token again 7YHGTARAZGUR

7YHGTARAZGUR

More than a month has passed and Technorati has finally got the time to verify my blog. It should be good news but bad news it is – they cannot find my token on my rss feed. Why? My rss feed only has the 10 most recent posts and the More >