Category Archives: Personal Thoughts

How Telcos Will Win on Building Towers

Almost immediately after posting my previous article in regards to the erection of communications towers for the National Broadband Network (NBN) or for mobile telephone and data communications through the major telcos, I remembered something that I’ve been meaning to write about for a long time. Innovation – or more directly – innovation in how [...]

So, Julia’s Shoe To Go On eBay?

So Julia Gillard’s now famous lost shoe is apparently to be put on eBay to raise money for the Aboriginal Tent Embassy? Protesters Put The Boot Into Prime Minister They should think twice. eBay – as one would presume – has a quite clear policy on the listing of stolen goods on their auction site: [...]

National News Program Spreading Racist Jokes?

The Project, the lighter news program broadcast six nights a week on Network Ten in Australia has gone through a number of changes of format and timeslot since its inception. It has defied this instability – (usually a recipe for alienating fans) – and continues to improve its ratings position. But it isn’t all improvement, [...]

NBN: Want A Clue As To When Your Area Comes Online?

While we patiently await the first three-year rollout plan for the National Broadband Network (NBN) to be released in coming weeks, I have stumbled across a document on the NBN website that has apparently been around since October, but which I haven’t seen before. Maybe I wasn’t looking hard enough? Doesn’t matter. It is an [...]

Moorabool Council Double Standard on NBN Towers

With construction of the wireless component of the National Broadband Network (NBN) getting underway in some regional areas of Australia, the inevitable squabbles over where transmission towers should and should not be built are in full swing. The process calls for calm, consultation with councils and residents, and transparent information flow. Rural councils need to [...]

NBN Wireless Towers Will Not Kill You

With areas around the Ballarat region to become some of the first areas in Australia to receive NBN Co’s wireless solution, there has been a lot of hullabaloo about the erection of the towers to actually deliver the service. I respect that people have the right to choose whether they have the towers on their [...]

RF Interference From HFC

I’ll start off by saying I am by no means an RF engineer, so I may be completely wrong about what I am about to write about. I am however, quite confident in my empirical observations over time. I got into an interesting conversation about RF interference generated by HFC systems – (often touted as [...]

Idea: Show Current Affairs on Current Affairs Shows

It really irks me that the two leading current affairs programs in Australia – Nine’s A Current Affair (ACA), and Seven’s Today Tonight (TT) – never seem to actually show any actual current affairs stories. They generally show what often don’t seem like much more than paid advertorials. Incidentally, these two programs finished fifth and [...]