Whirlpool News – Telstra to stop rolling out pair gain (2002-Oct-2)
Kate Carruthers This from 2002: Whirlpool News – Telstra to stop rolling out pair gain Many people (including me) are still suffering from this stupidity and cupidity of Telstra! They knew pair…
War of words erupts over Telstra service levels, pricing: ZDNet Australia (13 Mar 2002)
These issues with pair gain go way back and Telstra is still avoiding the problem! Here’s some more evidence: War of words erupts over Telstra service levels, pricing: ZDNet Australia:…
Death by PowerPoint – yet another perspective
Many people have noted how annoying it is to go to a meeting and experience the well-know ‘death by Powerpoint’ phenomenon. But one person who’s made the argument most excellently…
2004 Commencement Yale Class Day Speech, by Ken Burns
Ken Burns makes some excellent points in this speech, I’ve picked out some highlights – click here to see the entire text (in PDF). Now more than ever we in…
Pair Gain Victims – Senator Kate Lundy’s website
Anyone who has a similar problem with pair gain should let Senator Lundy know, her website is at www.katelundy.com.au where she says: “Send me an email senator.lundy@aph.gov.au about your problems…
More on Telstra & Pair Gain …
The more I find out about this the more annoying it is … It has been a year since this was written, but NOTHING HAS CHANGED IN THE PAST YEAR!…
Australia is a Broadband Backwater
Daniel’s points are all too true! Australia is a broadband backwater and it is all due to the incompetence of Telstra. They have a number of practices that have worked…
ALP Politics in Australia Getting Weirder …
Just when you think politics here is settling down to the usual pre-election party favour handout phase someone somewhere does something entertaining. This last week it has been the adoption…
John Howard, Australia and the United States
I keep wondering when John Howard will go to the next logical step? First we became the deputy sheriff for the US in Asia, then we went to war by…
5 Patterns of Extraordinary Careers: some interesting ideas for the ambitious person
Found this site in my wanderings the other day when I was supposed to be studying for an exam. It is based on a book called The 5 Patterns of…