Archive for November, 2006

Telstra “unleashes” broadband - let’s party like it’s 1999

Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

About bloody time telstra removed the artificial 1.5Mbps speed limit they’ve placed on all wholesale and retail DSL connections since 1999. We might catch up to the developed world yet…

My modem tells me I’ll nearly get 6Mbps out of it, but the downside is that the wholesale costs are so expensive, it will cost me $20 more than if I was on my ISPs hardware in the exchange :-/ AND it would be DSL2+, maybe even with Annex M!

I can’t believe this crap. Hurry up internode, DSLAM required in Mowbray (MOAY), stat! :-P

Getting off my lazy butt and doing something…

Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

Err, yeah. I remember, once upon a time, I used to have time to blog. That was before we built this:
New House

Oh, and before he was born:

Warren and Liam

So despite the fact that I’m lying on the couch there, I’ve been far from idle.

My yard still looks like this:

New House - yard

so it’s not as though i don’t have enough to do! However, I *am* committing to finishing up, in the very near future, the Ruby Web Spider I began to write about some 5-6 months ago.

Consider this, a dusting off of the cobwebs kinda post…