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Fairfax Tech Column 103

We had a frustrating incident this week. Our good business name was used by someone, somewhere in the world to try and fleece 45,000 people across the world of their hard-earned money. It is a common scenario that scamsters use – try and impers…
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Fairfax Tech Column 102

It was the early eighties. The corner store at Boundary Road a few blocks from where I lived had Pinball machines – which I wasn’t very good at! We used to watch and marvel at the kids from other schools who were always winning free games…
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Visiting Localities

I made the statement previously that I would visit all 133 localities in the Dubbo electorate during my listening tour. I like to be very accurate with any statement I make and, after further research, this number of 133 is incorrect. I apologise for…
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Dubbo Trivia Questions

Dubbo Trivia Questions:   1.     Dubbo was gazetted as a village on 23 November 1849 and declared a municipality on 19 February 1872 with its first Mayor elected on 24 April 1872. It is now a City. a.     …
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Train Your Staff

  Business owners often tell me that one of their biggest fears is that they will take good, young, inexperienced staff members and train them and give them skills and experience, and then they will leave the organisation and chase the bigger bu…
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Fairfax Tech Column 101

It was back in 2013 that ‘selfie’ was named the 2013 word of the year by Oxford Dictionaries. The first use of the term was credited to an Aussie who was describing a photograph he took of himself after falling over drunk after a twenty f…
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Fairfax Tech Column 100

As a true blue Aussie, I am very proud to be doing something today that our cricketers have struggled to do recently. Chalk up a century. Today marks a century of columns in my current series for Fairfax. For my one hundredth column, I thought of loo…
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Fairfax Tech Column 99

Buskers. School canteens. Tips. Coffees. These are the reasons people often give me to support the argument that we will never be a cashless society. I accept the fact that it may well be a long time before we are cashless but never is a very long ti…
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Fairfax Tech Column 98

State of Origin time again and what a fascinating contest in Melbourne on Wednesday night. Not fascinating because NSW actually won a game but fascinating for the technology inherent in the modern broadcast. Since 2014 we have seen the NFL (National …
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Fairfax Tech Column 97

The alarm goes off. The hand reaches for the button to stop the noise before bounding out of bed to engage in some gaming before the reality of the real-world sets in. Breakfast, chores and the trip to school. Sounds like a typical morning for a teen…
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Jetgo background information

Jetgo news in the Daily Liberal today is disappointing. Background information: When I was elected Mayor in September 2011, I spoke with Dubbo residents about what they saw as priorities for Council and one of the main priorities was for more air ser…
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Fairfax Tech Column 96

It was way back in April 2009 that I had finished talking at a seminar in Copenhagen and was due to fly out to my next stop in Amsterdam but I took a slight detour. While at the conference I was told by a local about a fascinating piece of infrastruc…
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Fairfax Tech Column 95

Despite the variety of NBN access methods I have previously written about in this column (FTTP; FTTN; FTTB; FTTC; FW; HFC…you get the picture) and the relative merits of the different technologies, all of these are significantly better than th…
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Fairfax Tech Column 94

Well another federal budget announcement has come and gone and pundits are still poring over the papers to see what devils lurk in the detail for different groups and sectors. From a pure technology perspective, there wasn’t a lot to get overly…
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Fairfax Tech Column 93

On the day affectionately known across the geek world as Star Wars Day (May the 4th be with you) I thought about the seemingly never-ending series of movies we have seen so far – and continue to see – and how that same concept often appli…
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