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I Gave My AI Agent a Footy Job
Over 40 years as a devoted St Kilda member, I share my experience launching SaintsFooty—a Telegram channel delivering timely updates and coverage. Despite a minor bug, the project worked! Continue reading
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When Your IT Guy Retires: What Australian SMBs Need to Know About the MSP Crisis
A succession crisis looms in Australian IT services as aging managed service providers (MSPs) near retirement, forcing small businesses to confront challenges in IT management and the need for cloud migration and automation. Continue reading
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6 Weeks, 666 Posts, 1 AI Agent: What I Actually Learned
Six weeks ago, I started a content site while on a career break. I wasn’t planning to write hundreds of articles. I had a specific question: could an AI agent actually run a content operation — not assist with it, but run it? The answer, six weeks and 666 posts later, is: mostly yes. With… Continue reading
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How I Built MelbWeekendAlerts in an Afternoon before the Footy
The Problem Sunday morning we got stuck behind Run the Tan while taking grand-doggies Data and Sam on a walk, before heading the Saints game at Marvel Stadium. Not a big deal in isolation. But it got the family thinking: how many times has this happened? And why is there no simple way to know… Continue reading
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Can One Person on a Career Break Outproduced a Team of 8?
I had coffee with a former colleague recently. He runs a business focused on providing comprehensive services to business owners — with a dedicated team working across content and service delivery. He looked at SmallBizAI.au and said our content was better than what his team had produced. I’ve been on a career break since leaving… Continue reading
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Australian Boards Don’t Understand AI. Here’s Why That’s A Problem For All Of Us.
And I’ll tell you what I’ve noticed: the people making technology decisions at most Australian companies often understand finance, law, and general management very well. They understand technology considerably less well. New research from Queensland University of Technology has put numbers to something I’ve experienced firsthand. Out of the 500 largest ASX-listed companies, more than… Continue reading
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100 days, but still Day One
I’ve just hit 100 days with AWS. It’s been a mix of on-boarding, travel, working with my team, learning what needs to be done, and culminated with a few days last week at AWS Summit in SYDNEY Looking back at my TripIt stats, it kinda says it all….. 2018 TRAVEL STATS Trips 8 Days 38… Continue reading
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It’s been 1337 days since i started at Telstra, to be part of the team working on the API Strategy and it feels appropriate on this 1337 d4y5 1337 d4y5 47 73l57r4 to see the next chapter of the API work be written, with Steve Cooper, aka @DeveloperSteve coming onboard to take this to the next… Continue reading
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2048 – Where I heard it first
A few weeks back my daughter Emma was playing a simple yet addictive game on her PC, called 2048. She wrote about it on her aussiegeekgirl blog , comparing it to another recent addictive game, flappy bird. Now in the past few days, others have been writing about this addictive game 2048 is the new Flappy Bird in so many ways… Continue reading
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Not clicking, waving….
I’ve been helping my kids with their homework, and one of them (I wont name who, so as to avoid any embarrassment) had to deliver a presentation in PowerPoint. I wanted to add a bit of pizzazz to the experience looked at hooking up a Kinect so that they could present with gestures, rather than… Continue reading