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16/01/20

Taking back control of my content

This year marks 20 years since I moved away from various free web hosting services that I was using (such as Geocities and Hypermart) and established a permanent personal web site. Over the years I have lost a substantial amount of content as other social media sites have closed down, and have decided that 2020 will be the year where I adopt a POSSE approach to my content and publish here first.
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14/01/20

A ride down Putty Road

Putty Road is a 168km road that runs from Wilberforce in Sydney’s North West up to Singleton in the Hunter Valley. It only just re-opened after the NSW fires, so I decided to go for a ride to support Grey Gum and survey the damage.
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12/01/20

George the talking clock lives on

Ever since I was a child I’ve been dialing ‘1194’ to hear the dulcet tones of Richard Peach enunciate the time. Sadly Telstra closed down this service at the end of September 2019 but I have managed to re-create it.
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04/01/20

First ride of 2020

One of my favourite things to do to clear my head is go on an early morning motorbike ride. Today I went on a ride to Balmoral Beach for breakfast.
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03/10/19

YubiKey 5 NFC Review

This post takes a look at my experience getting started with a YubiKey 5 NFC to save time accessing systems utilising multi-factor authentication.
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11/04/19

Fake Phone Numbers in Australia

Just like the “555” range in North America, Australia also has a set of fictitious numbers that are reserved where a “real” number is required.
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10/04/19

USA Test Phone Numbers

I have now expanded my test phone number to the USA which does caller ID read back, echo test, and more.
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15/10/18

From 0-90 in 10 days

After wanting one for a very long time I finally decided to buy a motorcycle.
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28/06/18

Solving the mystery of calls from +266696687

For a while now I’ve noticed calls coming in with a strange caller ID (+266696687). In this post I look at what these numbers may mean, and a few other strange caller ID numbers you might see.
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07/05/18

Introducing Lenny

Lenny is a voice activated telemarketer bot. In this post I describe how to call Lenny and even how to setup your own.
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