I've spent some time between Christmas and New Years resting up and enjoying being with my family - in the background I've been building up my new laptop. I decided before Christmas to take the plunge and buy myself a new laptop. I settled on the Toshiba Portege R500 with the 64GB Solid State Disk. This little beauty claims to have a 12 hour battery life - something I plan … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2007
Dear Santa…
Dear Santa, You might think that I'm a little old to write to you asking for things for Christmas, but I live in hope that my dreams will one day come true. I've been a very good boy this year Santa, I've refocused my life on my family and it's showing good results. I'm less stressed now and really enjoying the work I am doing in the community. This year Santa, I really only … [Read more...]
And…. breath….
Yes - I can breath again... We've moved the servers in the data center and all appears to be fine. This is the start of a number of changes that I'm making to provide better facilities across the board. More on this in 2008. The observant of you will note that our IP's have changed - we're now on a new network with our ISP and hope that speed will be much better. … [Read more...]
Ingram Micro – are they getting serious with SMB IT Resellers?
Over the last week, I've had two meetings with local Ingram Micro in an attempt to help them better understand the needs of the SMB IT Reseller so that we might be able to do better business with them. These meetings came out of a phone call from John Walters - Ingrams' Sales Director here in Australia. Yesterday, John had a team meeting with his state managers and I was … [Read more...]
Server Maintenance – sites down.
This site - and all others I host on these servers will be down for a few hours on Friday 21st December. Some server relocations need to take place. Fingers crossed it all goes well and we'll be back online as quick as we can. … [Read more...]