WARNING: Do not continue if you have no interest in Disney’s Frozen whatsoever. Having two daughters under 10, our house & car has been filled with Frozen songs, so naturally that was the chosen theme for Miss 4’s 5th birthday. I wasn’t interested in it being the best decorated Frozen party ever. I just wanted it to be…
Pre Conference Countdown – a lesson in not sweating the small stuff
At short notice, I’ve taken a leap of faith and purchased a conference ticket. It was left until the last minute because I’ve been umming and ahhing about whether or not I can justify spending the money to be a delegate for 2.5 days, plus accommodation. Everyone who has attended this industry conference raves about…
How to REALLY end the tech gender gap
Time Magazine has just told me that the way to end the gender gap in tech is to run girl’s summer coding camps. Sure. And then what do you do when those girls try to enter the industry? How are you going to ensure that their potential employer gives them and equal chance … and an equal salary?…
Cloud Myth #1 – It’s bulletproof
I’ve seen a few discussions amongst the Australian IT community recently from people who are very anti-Cloud. Aside from privacy concerns (NSA access to data centres not located in Australia) and Internet infrastructure concerns (yes, many businesses still have pitiful Internet speeds), the next favourite objection involves every time a Cloud service has ever has…
What they don’t tell you about making Cake Pops
I started doing the school holidays thing of letting the girls have some unstructured play time (aka amusing themselves while I work). My aim is to wrangle my unread emails & attend to anything time critical, then spend some time with them. They love to bake. Well, they love to start baking then leave me to it and return…
550 not permitted to relay error sending to new Office 365 email accounts
An IT technician migrated a customer over to Office 365, including using the hosted Microsoft Exchange service for email. He followed the right steps, verified their own domain name, adjusted the MX record and added the right SPF entry. However, some people sending to this email domain were receiving a delivery failure report error (though…