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More on Telstra & Pair Gain ...

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’s broadband infrastructure just can’t get the tangle out of the line. A report this week suggests that some

Australia is a Broadband Backwater

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 against take-up of these solutions. So much for the clever country? Daniels Blog: I think the root

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 of ex Midnight Oil front-man and sometime greenie, Peter Garrett, as an ALP candidate for a safe federal

John Howard, Australia and the United States

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 their side in Afghanistan and Iraq, now we are making a free trade agreement with them. Surely the next logical

5 Patterns of Extraordinary Careers: some interesting ideas for the ambitious person

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 by James M. Citrin and Richard A. Smith and more info can be found at www.5patterns.com. The basic premise of this book

More on getting ADSL in Sydney - evil Telstra still trying to stop me

More on getting ADSL in Sydney - evil Telstra still trying to stop me

The next installment in my continued quest to obtain late 20th century broadband access in the 21st century ... Phoned Telstra and was advised "you have pair gain there is nothing that can be done". They essentially told me to go away and stop bothering them. Wrote email to

MBA - still value for money?

MBA - still value for money?

The other day a friend who has just completed an MBA from a prestigious university was disconsolate to read an article by Tim Dodd in the Australian Financial Review (AFR, 17 May 2004) titled "MBAs are losing their cachet". Dodd argued that employers prefer people whose postgraduate studies

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