Technology
CAPTCHA what?
May 24th
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…
May 11th
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?
Mar 29th
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?
Nov 27th
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
Oct 13th
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?
Oct 11th
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!
Oct 3rd
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
Apr 28th
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 again 7YHGTARAZGUR
Apr 24th
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 >
