Just a quick public service announcment - if you have been waiting to purchase your tickets to the Edge of the Web and WA Web Awards (November 6-7 at University Club in Crawley) then wait no longer! You can now head over and register online. Ticket prices are a reasonable: Non Member: $495 (Early bird before Sept 1: $450) Member: $450 (

I just gave this presentation to the PRIA Young Guns -  a group for younf marketing and PR people, along with Justin Davies and Ronnie Duncan (from Meerkats - sorry, haven’t got a link). As you all well know, I’m very much from the technical side of the web, and have been known to be a little critical of some of the more, let’s say,

We are currently in Perth in a youth hostel. It’s the fifth day into our holidays and it’s going fairly well. There’s one and a half hours time difference between Adelaide and Perth which means we’ve both been waking up at 5.30am and this morning was the first morning I couldn’t go back to sleep. Up until last night we had a friend’s apartment

A couple of days ago, Joiku released the premium edition of their WiFi access software for Sybian phones: JoikuSpot. I’ve blogged about JoikuSpot before, and now for 15€ you can get the premium edition, which NATs mail, Skype, SSH, HTTPS and number of other protocols. They also seemed to have fixed the issue which stopped the EeePC using DHCP

This post is part of my lessons learned alphabetical series and follows on from D is for Design. So… you think you are pretty hot. You’ve got 30 followers on Twitter, FeedBurner tells you that more than a dozen people read every post you write, and your Analytics figures are on an upwards trend. So you decide that this blogging lark is easy,

As any website grows, we often find ourselves having to move servers to deal with capacity, or better prices or whatever. This can be a right pain to do, but with a little planning and a few tricks, you can make the process somewhat smoother. In this quick howto, I’ll cover how to move a typical web setup: Web server, DNS, Mail and database

[ Lighthouse steps] Photo Friday’s theme this week is spiral. I took this photo towards the top of the spiral staircase in the lighthouse at Port Adelaide during the summer school holidays. It was a one way very narrow staircase and to get to the lookout bit at the top we had to climb through a little trapdoor

Spurred on by Gary’s discussion on the number of micro-blogging sites around, the “Is it Distributed?” question made we wonder if we are going about this wrong. Cameron Adams was right when he said there is only one social network, so why are we flicking between a large number of them? Why aren’t we running out own?