How Fast Is The NBN?
Tweet I was asked to do a short interview on ABC Ballarat (local radio) yesterday to comment on the website How Fast Is The NBN. The spot was only about 5 minutes so it was quite a short discussion and I thought I might expand on that just a little. The How Fast Is The NBN website is an accurate simulation of the difference in speed between 25Mbps and 1000Mbps. It’s worth mentioning though that it is a ‘perfect world’ simulation which assumes unlimited bandwidth in the general network infrastructure. Right now we simply don’t have the national infrastructure to support...
Read MoreA Warning About Australia Post Parcel Delivery
Tweet I have to admit to being just a little bit annoyed at the way that some parcels were delivered to my house recently. It used to be that someone would knock on the door and if you didn’t answer they would leave a card in your letter box to let you know you had a parcel and it was waiting to be picked up back at the post office. Apparently that has not been the case for quite some time. I’m not sure when the change was made but the way it works now is the parcel is left somewhere on your property (next to the front door in my case) unless the sender has paid an additional fee...
Read MoreNot Every Website Is A Business…
Tweet I guess that’s stating the obvious, but I thought that it was worth looking at what some of your options are if you were planning on creating a personal website or blog. Free Hosting There are quite a few free webhosts around, but like most hosting services they need to make money somehow. The way they usually do this is with advertising. So whilst you can get the hosting for free, you also need to keep in mind that there may be a few ads floating around your website. If you Google ‘free webhosting’ you will find a bunch of those...
Read MoreA Little Christmas Cheer
Tweet If you watch television, even just every now and then like me, you would have seen and heard the latest Target Christmas ads. When I heard the ad I was sure that I’d heard the song before. I googled a line of the song and sure enough, it’s a song by Shakin’ Stevens called ‘Merry Christmas’ that he originally released in 1991 and then re-released in 2007.
Read MoreDue Diligence Can Save You Money
Tweet As a small business owner, it’s important to practise due diligence with any purchases you make or any agreements you sign up to. This was made obvious by a telephone call we received recently. Someone from a company identifying itself as Deltec Manufacturing called and said that they were following up on a call they had made to us several months ago. As I wasn’t the only person taking calls here at CAS Netlink I didn’t know whether that was true or not. It turns out that it wasn’t true – it’s part of their sales pitch. Anyway, they offered to ship me...
Read MoreWhy We’re Obsessed With WordPress
Tweet If I wanted to write a ‘War & Peace’ length post then this subject would probably work well. There are so many reasons why we love WordPress so much. First up though, I think I should clear up some possible misconceptions. Blog is short for ‘web log’, a term that was probably first used around the mid 1990′s. Back then pretty much anything related to the Internet and blogs was like geeksville central. I know that because I was there… not blogging but certainbly lurking around Internet newsgroups and active on dialup bulletin boards for many years...
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