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Where (some of) my Uni fees are going

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

What else am I to do when I’m in the city with time to use up between events than go to Uni and do some downloading of some of my favourite content distributed on the internet.

Most people would realise that this is content is coming down faster than I think any connection available to consumers [...]

Why poorly designed search sucks.

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

Rececntly, for an assignment for Uni I was writing researching consumer and business security and user privacy in relation to IT.
Using the UTS Library search tool to find academic papers on such topics I came back with the following group of results in response to the query “computer security” or “computer privacy” (one of the [...]

Where in the world have I been?

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

Since it’s been quite a while since the hype that surrounded CeBIT AU (and I’ve still got some reviews to write up when I get a chance), I thought I’d let you know what I’ve been up to of late!
I’ve been doing a lot of Uni related activities of late - assignments, some paid work [...]

Help this guy out!

Saturday, November 4th, 2006

Just quickly browsing through a few of the blogs from the IPTV people I love to watch and found a link to Paul Stamatiou’s blog from AmberMac.com
From what I’ve just read quickly, Paul seems like a great tech blogger and as a student in a situation similar to his I thought I’d give him some [...]

We’re back!!

Saturday, April 22nd, 2006

After the 2nd server crash in a month (the 2nd time being my own fault) we’re back!!! Hopefuly I wont go and stuff up the kernel images and boot sequence of my Debian install now and make my server redundant. I’ve moved from Fedora Core to Debian, and so far it seems a far nicer [...]