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The ClickFail of Australian Retail.
Tuesday, November 20th 2012
The coming of age of online retail in Australia crashed and burned in Australia tonight due to lack of preparation and hubris. It could have been so different.
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Android fragmentation: really not a big deal
Tuesday, January 18th 2011
This is a post I've been mulling over for a while and it now seems the right time to put my thoughts down around the issue of Android Fragmentation. There has been a lot of talk amongst the community about this and…
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An Open Internet call to arms
Tuesday, March 23rd 2010
Having watched the trainwreck that is the Australian Internet Filter and Senator Conroy's single minded obsession to go down in history as the "man who removed free speech from Australia" I can't help but notice two…
A 3 minute read (883 words).
Can Yahoo really get things so wrong?
Monday, April 21st 2008
Yahoo are one of the original dotcoms. They've been around for a long time so they should know their business. Imagine my surprise when one of my clients starts complaining that their confirmation emails to yahoo email…
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Security 101 : The user should be able to authenticate
Saturday, March 15th 2008
Security needs to be appropriate to the value of the asset it protects.
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DVD Jon strikes again
Wednesday, February 20th 2008
DVD Jon or Jon Lech Johansen as he is more commonly known gets a lot of love here. This great Norwegian famously broke the DVD encryption put in place by the big firms with the release of some software primarily aimed at…
A 2 minute read (570 words).
Why industries can still be revolutionised on the web
Tuesday, February 12th 2008
I'm a bit of a cynic really. Anyone that's trawled through the depths of this blog will know that I have a fairly acid tongue when it comes to technology. I am a walking example of the phrase "familiarity breeds contempt…
A 3 minute read (864 words).
Potent messages of impotent industries
Friday, December 21st 2007
I should probably know better than to open my mouth but the obvious has to be stated on this one. For anyone that is net Savvy enough to know what BitTorrent is, the news that TorrentSpy has just lost its court case…
A 2 minute read (587 words).
SMS Bamboozlement...
Wednesday, December 19th 2007
I'm doing some work for a client at the moment who's industry is particularly technophobic. The absolute cutting edge is a bit of YouTube video thrown willy nilly into a page. I'd also point out that design is something…
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PCI DSS will wreak havoc on SMEs
Friday, November 30th 2007
One of my clients was asking me about PCI DSS certification today. Coincidentally I also received our letter about compulsory compliance to the PCI DSS standard. Both of us are what are termed "Level 4 Merchants" - that…
A 3 minute read (853 words).
Why was data being passed on a disc and what was EDS' advice?
Wednesday, November 21st 2007
Readers in the UK will be aware of a Data Protection Act train crash that we have been watching unfold in front of us over the last few days. It turns out that 25 million records of a database managed by HMRC have been…
A 3 minute read (729 words).
CSS Structure - what a mess
Friday, November 2nd 2007
James posted a message on my blog some weeks ago and it's only now that a penny has dropped in my mind about what we need to deal with the issue of structure in CSS - the problem is we have none. As James points out you…
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Let the new gaming witch hunt begin
Monday, October 15th 2007
I'm in my thirties now and I've been playing computer games from the age of about four when my dad first brought home the venerable VIC 20 - partly because he was doing a computer science degree at University but mostly…
A 3 minute read (739 words).
DRMed for Life
Thursday, May 3rd 2007
In the news recently has been the whole thing about not only the copy protection on HD-DVD and Blu-Ray disks being cracked but people posting digg links with decryption keys in them. I can understand Digg's position in…
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