I found out yesterday that Melbourne IT is to acquire NetRegistry, and in my view it’s buying it for a steal ($50.4m). Deja vu – Melbourne IT bought WebCentral in 2006, and all it’s done in the meantime is bleed it dry. The irony is that Melbourne IT claims the “WebCentral plan” bled it dry. With… Read More Melbourne IT NetRegistry Acquisition
Cringe while I take issue with one of Australia’s eminent aviation journalists…… Read More The Qantas non-crisis
I came across a most unusual issue with an ASP.NET website – all users on the website were finding that their logins were good for only a couple of minutes before they were being logged out. After about a week, users were completely unable to log in. As soon as an attempt was made, they… Read More We all lose track of time
It’s the last sitting week in parliament for 2012, and our newspapers and TVs are full of rubbish about some sort of weak smear campaign. It’s (barely) acceptable to saddle the voting public with this sort of tripe during an election campaign, but the rest of the time our politicians should be doing what they’re… Read More The Circus
Negotiating on behalf of a client today, hard-ass credit department guy on the other end of the phone says: “Mate, what’s your hourly rate? Why don’t you whip out your wallet and we can fix this right away. Cheaper than the time you have wasted talking to me.” I had to humour him. “I like… Read More Host hostage