Brace yourselves – this is a rant. In my opinion, mobile phone companies are right down their with real estate agents and used car salesmen. But let me lay out the facts and you can decided for yourself. After receiving a wedding invitataion, we decided to pack up the kids and head to Wellington for…
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Facebook just made your old private messages public – or did it?
The latest scandal to hit Facebook is from users reporting that old private messages (circa 2007-2008) have now been made public on their timeline. Facebook is denying this, saying they aren’t private messages at all, just old wall posts. Despite Facebook engineers knowing what they are talking about with their own software (or do they?),…
Hands up if you need a Smartphone Pledge!
Over the last few days, a few articles have come my way (including one I wrote myself) about smartphone addiction and the impact of our ‘always connected’ society. My favourite so far has been this fromm Joe Kraus at Google Ventures: http://joekraus.com/were-creating-a-culture-of-distraction Hi, my name is Sonia and I’m addicted to my smartphone. Except it’s not…
To the cloud .. or not? (A personal account)
This isn’t intended as a comprehensive argument on how to evaluate if Cloud Computing is right for you or not. I’ve written it to show where we use Cloud Computing in our own business, and where we don’t. As most of my readers aren’t IT Providers, you may find something relevant in this, or you…
BigPond ADSL – Your ADSL Service Cancellation Notice email
Disturbing email doing the rounds over the long Easter weekend in Australia, pretending to be from BigPond. I’m blogging about this in the hope that you’ll find this entry if you receive that email and Google it first. It’s a scam, and a very clever one. First the details: sender address [email protected] (that’s your first alarm bell-bt.com is…
Issues with security update patch for IE7 WinXP KB2416400?
Our friends at the Kaseya NOC have decided not to rollout out a Microsoft security patch just released for Internet Explorere 7 machines (on Windows XP). They’ve seen some issues once it’s been installed and there are a few blog sites with people reporting problems. Suggest hold off installing this one for a while until…