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
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
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
I spoke on the radio a few weeks ago about how you might control what happens to your social media presence after you’re… no longer present. When you’ve gone to the big social network in the sky it’s a bit late to start figuring out how to shut down your Twitter, facebook and Tumblr accounts, so… Read More The end-game password
Example of the power of websites put to shameful, rather than good use: http://getridofrob.com/ My position on his politics can have some bench time; whoever set up this website is playing the man and not the ball. Poor form.