Australia – you need to embrace INNOVATION and self driven productivity and not being glorified LEGO builders. Otherwise I can’t see how Australia will have any IT industry left over?
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Apr7th2011
What is wrong with IT practitioners in Australia?
Published by April 7th, 2011 in Business Development, FOSS/GNU/Linux and The Cloud. 0 CommentsFeb24th2011
Work Ethics and Habits
Published by February 24th, 2011 in Business Development and Tech Horizon. 2 CommentsI am involved in a lot of conversations about China, the world, the global economy and where it is all headed.
I have had a bit of a time adjusting to the laid back approach to work in Australia and then the subsequent outrage if people’s “Shoulds” are interferred with (the soft western should fetish).
Dec14th2010
EQUINIX – Would you like fries with that?
Published by December 14th, 2010 in Tech Horizon and The Cloud. 0 CommentsHad a good tour of the EQUNIX facility in Sydney today. Been to a few around the world and yet again the structure, layout and operation procedures are identical to all. The McDonalds of IDC’s?
Oct11th2010
China .CN TLD Registration Rules Change Again #complete_shock
Published by October 11th, 2010 in Business Development, China, Tech Horizon and The Cloud. 0 CommentsIn any case, it is now not the case that a business can register a domain name. Get this. Businesses are NOT ALLOWED to own .CN domain names. ONLY INDIVIDUALS. I’ll let you all ponder why that may be the case. It is about as hard as figuring out why BBQ’s attract flies.
Oct8th2010
Guanxi #fake_china_consultant
Published by October 8th, 2010 in Business Development and China. 2 CommentsYou people out there know who you are. Stop trying to take the short cuts and giving us genuine China hands a bad reputation.
Aug25th2010
This issue has bugged me for well over 5 years. VMWARE has some weird issue – mainly with Linux hosts where the keyoard goes crazy and a single key press cause a million entries to appear.
Aug12th2010
China ICP FAQ
Published by August 12th, 2010 in Business Development, China, Tech Horizon and The Cloud. 0 CommentsThere seems to be a lot of confusion and old information floating around about what is or isn’t an ICP may be and what is needed to get one and then as announced today – additional steps needed during the actual application process.
Aug12th2010
China Government Notice August 2010: ICP Application Process
Published by August 12th, 2010 in Business Development, China, Tech Horizon and The Cloud. 0 CommentsWith new regulations enforced by MIIT, Internet Service Providers are obliged to conform to the current ICP application procedure. Specifications are as follows:
Aug9th2010
Would you ever NOT offshore development?
Published by August 9th, 2010 in China and Tech Horizon. 1 CommentIs there any point in NOT offshoring work? Most of the best tech these days is made out of India and Asia. So why do people still bother to do Computer Science degrees in the west of learn programming?
Jul26th2010
Double ICP Needed
Published by July 26th, 2010 in Business Development, China and The Cloud. 3 CommentsPreviously you would have to decide between a “normal” ICP as needed for all business online properties. Or a “commercial” ICP for doing trades/shopping cart/ecommerce.
May20th2010
Not sure when exactly this happened – I am guessing in the past 2 weeks as the Missus is declaring we need a new webcam at home so inter family video chats can resume. So all up it was about 1 year of being cut off from modern communications.
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