In June 2013 I flew for the first time into Sydney International Airport (YSSY) in the PC-12, and then flew back home to Adelaide a week later (with a video camera running).
Building a Fibre NBN on a Copper budget
On 17th July 2013 I delivered a talk at the CommsDay Wholesale and Data Centre Summit in Sydney about the NBN called “The Ideal Wholesale NBN Market”.
The Man Who Climbed Mount Pilatus
Recently I took the editor of the Australian AOPA magazine, Kreisha Ballantyne, for a fly in my PC-12NG and she wrote a story about it for the magazine 🙂
She has kindly let me post the resulting magazine article online on my blog – so here it is!
Pilatus article from AOPA magazine (PDF, 3 pages)
If you like this sort of article, please support AOPA Australia so they can write more of them!
2013 NBN Policy demystified (video)
Video
I’ve just come across a video clip released today that de-mystifies the current NBN policy alternatives in less than 3 minutes.
Thought you might enjoy it as much as I did 🙂
CommsDay Sydney 2013 Summit: The Problem With FTTN
Today I delivered a talk at the CommsDay Sydney 2013 Summit about National Broadband Network policy.
Given that the major federal political parties have clearly explained policies about the NBN heading into the September 2013 election, there’s no real mystery there.
In a likely future Coalition government cycle, what will the landscape look like three years after that? What challenges may an FTTN-based approach have presented by then?
Why ‘Sharing’ a Dropbox folder doesn’t always work – and how to fix it
Dropbox (http://www.dropbox.com) is an amazingly useful product. I use it a lot, and I rely on it a lot.
But I had a real problem with it – sharing a folder with a new work group lately just wouldn’t work. We couldn’t figure out why. Nothing looked wrong, but updates to the original files we’d shared around never appeared. Continue reading
Successfully deploying IPv6 in Australia
On October 18th 2012 in Melbourne, I delivered a presentation about the history and current deployment status of IPv6 into the national customer base of Internode.
If you’re interested, you can take a look at that presentation in a couple of ways.
PC-12 over Sydney Harbour
A few weeks ago, TCP was used for ground and flying sessions for an upcoming flying magazine article.
As part of that process, after taking shots inside and around the aircraft on the ground, John Absolon (who did the flying and the photography) went flying to Kangaroo Island to try the plane out for himself.
It was later flown to Sydney for air to air shots in the vicinity of the appropriate famous landmarks!
Unfortunately access restrictions due to the weather (specifically, strong winds driving limited runway selection at Sydney Airport) was such that it wasn’t possible to get right into the harbour as intended. There were still some great shots taken with the harbour in the background, taken from the vicinity of Chatswood.
You can see a selection of the photos taken on these days at John Absolon’s photoshelter site, here:
http://johnabsolon.photoshelter.com/gallery/Aviation-Magazine-Work/G0000W74PMn0PxC0/20
This is my favourite shot (with thanks to John Absolon for letting me post it here):
VH-TCP flying over Chatswood with Sydney harbour visible in the background
Rediscovering Old Computers
When I was in the USA a few months ago, I watched some episodes of a ‘reality’ (and I use the term loosely) show on A&E called ‘Storage Wars’. People’s abandoned storage lockers auctioned off and explored, to find ‘the treasures within’ (and in the case of the TV show, to try to make money out of selling them).
I’m one of those people who likes to keep (or: finds it hard to throw away…) old computers and computer related bits and pieces. Watching ‘Storage Wars’ was the catalyst for me to arrange to empty the contents of my own storage facility in Adelaide, into which I’ve put various old computers and related bits and pieces accumulated over the last two decades of starting and growing Internode.
Tesla Model S : What’s In A Name?
While waiting for my Tesla Model S to arrive in Australia, sometime in 2013, I find myself wondering where the name ‘Model S’ came from.
Simon Hackett 
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