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Afternoon Cider

Cider with a view and lovely breeze!

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Afternoon Stroll

What a ghastly day for a stroll!

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Qantas to bring inflight Internet to Australia

Qantas announced today that they expect to commence trials of in-flight Wi-Fi in late 2016 under a partnership with broadband services provider ViaSat. The trial will use a single Boeing 737 aircraft with a rollout across the entire domestic fleet of Boeing 737 and Airbus A330 aircraft. The service will use NBN’s Sky Muster service which provides coverage across most

Everything you need to know about the Apple versus FBI case

Today’s reading is Everything you need to know about the Apple versus FBI case by Troy Hunt. You’ve no doubt heard of the California judge ordering Apple to assist the FBI in gaining access to the contents of the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone. Troy provides a great run-down on the background of the case.

Would the last person in Sydney please turn the lights out?

Today’s reading is Would the last person in Sydney please turn the lights out? by Matt Barrie. An opinion piece into the changing landscape of Sydney – bogged down by ever increasing bureaucracy. So much so that despite living in the middle of Sydney’s Kings Cross that I don’t even go out after dinner anymore. These days I’ll usually host

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Earning bonus points through American Express Local Champion

I’m always on the look out for some points earning opportunities, and one of the hidden surprises I found within the American Express iPhone app was “Local Champion” – a way to earn bonus points at merchants you spend at regularly. I’m a regular at a few local stores and restaurants, and love the idea of getting bonus points just

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Sending call notifications from Asterisk to HipChat

HipChat has been discontinued as of February 2019. This post is online for historical reasons only. We run an Asterisk PBX with agents who take inbound phone calls from our various phone queues. We also use HipChat as our internal instant messaging and group chat system. So that agents are aware a call may be headed their way, we have

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A look at AWS Certificate Manager

Overnight Amazon Web Services (AWS) released their AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) product which allows customers to automatically provision, deploy and renew SSL certificates on supported AWS resources (at present they are supported on Elastic Load Balancers (ELBs) and CloudFront). One of the biggest challenges I see in organisations over and over again is how to manage and ensure SSL certificates

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Cat in a hat

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Apple Pay in Australia – First Impressions

This morning American Express launched Apple Pay in Australia for those with eligible American Express cards. Eligible cards include those many of those issued by American Express directly – cards issued by banks such as NAB or CBA are not currently eligible. As I have an eligible card naturally I decided to try it out. Setup Setup is simple. I

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