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Accentuate The Positive

Small Business Ru!e of the Month

On 23 April 1991, Gerald Ratner delivered a speech to the Institute of Directors. Almost overnight, he lost his job (along with the £650,000 salary), £500 million was wiped off the valuation of the company, and a billion-pound turnover wa…

2019

Fairfax Tech Talk Column 152

Tech Talk Column

I remember growing up playing the board game Monopoly. It was as much a psychological experiment with family and friends as it was a game. The analysis started when the tokens were chosen. Battleship – cutthroat. Boot – grudge. Car &ndash…

2019

Fairfax Article – Life – Y2k Bug? Y2Worry?

Media Releases

Y2k Bug? Y2Worry? Take a moment to cast your mind back to the late nineties. We were obsessed with news about Bill Clinton and impeachment. We were horrified by the Columbine High School massacre. We listened to Elton John and Britney and a new gener…

2019

Fairfax Tech Talk Column 151

Tech Talk Column

I am sure you remember the old trick question that your science teacher gave you at some stage during your high school education. Which has more mass – a kilogram of feathers or a kilogram of lead? Along those same lines, which is of more value…

2019

Who is Doing the Dishes by Mathew Dickerson

Poetry

We have a medical mystery that has stumped our family physician; Our children all seem to be afflicted with this recurring condition. We have tried different foods as recommended by our dietician; And consulted a French professor – the world&rs…

2019

Y2k Bug? Y2Worry?

Media Releases

For a condensed version of this article, see: Y2k Bug? Y2Worry? Condensed. Take a moment to cast your mind back to the late nineties. We were obsessed with news about Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky and the impeachment trial in the US Senate. …

2019

Fairfax Tech Talk Column 150

Tech Talk Column

Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s…my taxi! We haven’t noticed any people from Krypton flying around our skies but we are certainly closer to the world depicted in The Jetsons, the animated sitcom that…

2019

Fairfax Tech Talk Column 149

Tech Talk Column

iTunes is dead! Long live iTunes. Apple recently made the announcement that they are killing off iTunes. Oh no! What will happen to all my downloaded music? What about the songs I copied from CDs onto iTunes? My playlists!!! Firstly, we should look a…

2019

Be Proactive Not Reactive

Small Business Ru!e of the Month

I was delivering a seminar recently, and sitting in the front row was a well-dressed IT professional looking very smart—apart from the embroidery on his shirt—it said “Reactive Technology.” I personally thought this was a terr…

2019

Media Release – Phil Stack to play at Lifeline fundraising dinner in Dubbo

Media Releases

Media release Phil Stack to play at Lifeline fundraising dinner in Dubbo Lifeline fundraising dinner to be held in Dubbo on 12 July will feature Phil Stack in a jazz duo. The support for the Lifeline fundraiser is quickly growing. After …

2019

Fairfax Tech Talk Column 148

Tech Talk Column

On 9 April 2013, then Federal opposition leader and eventual Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, made a broad statement referencing the NBN. “[We] are absolutely confident that 25 megs is going to be enough, more than enough, for the average household…

2019

Media Release – Lifeline Fundraiser with Alan Jones as guest speaker

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Media release Alan Jones AO to speak at Lifeline fundraising dinner in Dubbo Lifeline fundraising dinner to be held in Dubbo on 12 July will feature Alan Jones as guest speaker. Former Member for Dubbo, John Mason, and former Mayor of Dubbo, M…

2019

Fairfax Tech Talk Column 147

Tech Talk Column

I have seen a total of approximately one minute of comedian Rick Mercer’s TV show and it was thirteen years ago – but that video clip has stuck with me since then. Wind the clock back to 2006. The world was yet to see the iPhone. 4G was s…

2019

Media Release – Sarah Nolet announced as first diga.tech speaker

Media Releases

Media release Sarah Nolet announced as the first diga.tech speaker diga.tech today announced Sarah Nolet as the first speaker. Today at Aquawest, a business known for introducing technology into the agricultural sector, the Dubbo Chamber of Co…

2019

Fairfax Tech Talk Column 146

Tech Talk Column

I recently wrote a poem called ‘Tomorrow’s Smartphone User’ and it focused on the fact that a modern smartphone has so many wonderful features that it may be easy for a smartphone user of the future to forget that it is still capabl…

2019

Media Release – diga.tech announce first speaker for the one-day expo

Media Releases

Media release diga.tech announce first speaker for the one-day expo diga.tech, powered by the Dubbo Chamber of Commerce, is announcing the first of six speakers on Friday 17 May at 10am from Aquawest, 41 Douglas Mawson Rd., Dubbo. At th…

2019

Media Release – diga.tech hold Exhibitor Information Evening

Media Releases

Media release diga.tech hold Exhibitor Information Evening diga.tech, powered by the Dubbo Chamber of Commerce, is holding an Information Evening for interested exhibitors at the Milestone Hotel on Wednesday 22 May at 5pm. At the inaugu…

2019

Fairfax Tech Talk Column 145

Tech Talk Column

In my formative years, I learned that a true test of character is how someone behaves when no one is watching them. It would appear that lesson was not widely distributed because the latest data on dashcams is quite interesting. More on that in minut…

2019

Fairfax Tech Talk Column 144

Tech Talk Column

Well I have good news and bad news. In the lead-up to the 2007 Federal Election, we heard the vision to commence construction of a super-fast National Broadband Network (NBN) as Australia was lagging behind the rest of the world in Internet connectiv…

2019