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Most of you know I work in the Information Security area. You probably also know I am passionate about Australia. However, this post is not about the technical ineffectiveness of the technologies that have been proposed (which I will write later). This is more about the method in which the Australian Government is pursuing the [...]

US Elections: What if WE could vote?

Today Americans go to the polls to vote in a new president. Now it is a completely fair call to hear comments from Americans such as Who cares? Its our president we’re voting for, not yours. However, for better or for worse, the United States pretty much the only superpower left since the end of [...]

A Message from HRH Queen Elizabeth II

A few of my Pommie friends have whinged about some of my recent posts have involved highlighting how Australia is fantastic, or how England sucks. Which, I guess, is a fair call. So as a public service announcement I’ll relay the following announcement from the Queen of the United Kingdom. To the citizens of the [...]

Financial Advice

If you had purchased £1000 of Northern Rock shares one year ago it would now be worth £4.95, with HBOS, earlier this week your £1000 would have been worth £16.50, £1000 invested in XL Leisure would now be worth less than £5, but if you bought £1000 worth of Kronenbourg 1664 Lager one year ago, [...]

Julie Moult is an Idiot

A Pommy “journalist” recently published an article about an alleged Googlebombing of British MP Hazel Blears without doing her research and understanding the technical facts behind the “internet craze”. Of course, the Internet community has sought to help her understand the context and to correct a such an evil accusation as well as reprimand her [...]

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