25/07/12
Seat Changed
My seat has been changed.Read More
04/07/12
Amazon EC2 speed and latency from Australia
On November 13, 2012, Amazon launched a new region in Sydney. I recently had a requirement to provision an application within Amazon EC2. The web based application was going to be accessed primarily by Australian users, and as a result I wanted to know which of Amazon’s 7 public regions would be likely to provide the lowest latency for usersRead More
01/07/12
Balcony View
Enjoying the view from my balcony at the HiltonRead More
01/06/12
To the airport
Bag with 787 Dreamliner tag is awaiting the train to the airport.Read More
19/05/12
F5 BIG-IP health checks and HTTP errors
When a web site or application becomes too large to run on a single server, it’s frequently placed on multiple servers with a load balancer in front of them to spread the load and also to remove faulty servers from the pool. The F5 BIG-IP is one such load balancer. To ensure that faulty servers are removed from the loadRead More
28/04/12
Deconstructed Reconstructed Tiramisu
Deconstructed reconstructed tiramisu.Read More
21/04/12
Sydney Opera House
Sydney Opera HouseRead More
20/04/12
The insecurity of security questions
One morning I discovered that Apple had introduced predefined security questions that you can’t customise. I’m not a fan of these, and in this post I explain why.Read More
14/04/12
Clearing the local DNS cache on OS X Lion
As someone who works in the hosted services industry, I frequently need to access web sites or other systems that are in the midst of a DNS change. When a change occurs it’s easy enough to flush the recursive DNS servers that I use, however the operating system itself also caches the DNS results. This means that even though theRead More
07/04/12
Bird Coffee
Having another coffee. This time with a bird!Read More
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