Via Facebook this morning, I received an email from someone I did not know "Frank had a massive heart attack last Wednesday and passed away this morning at 1:50." My first thought was who is this person sending me an email about someone called Frank I checked their friends and it showed one person. Frank McCallister. No I thought it can t be so. I checked with the other … [Read more...]

Last night @ the Perth SMB IT Professionals Group meeting, I met the orange shirt brigade, also known locally as PCGuru :-) These guys are a small SMB focused group that stand out from the crowd if for nothing more than their bright orange shirts. Their Managing Director - Jason Jordan told me about their funky cars they use to drive around in - check out the pictures below. … [Read more...]

Sandi Hardmeier is a respected MVP and a good friend of mine. She's been fighting against all kinds of malware in her after hours for the past umpteen years now and has single handedly prevented some potentially major infections (say like 220 million users of MSN Instant Messenger that were at risk). Up until now though, Sandi's day job has NOT been involved in IT as a primary … [Read more...]

Now I really don't think Microsoft know what they are in for with this announcement. Late last night, Robbie Upcroft - the Microsoft Australia dude covering the SBSC program and the SBS/EBS product range, made the following announcement to the local SBSC yahoogroup. I've known Hilton for some years now and he's pretty much a nice guy. Sure there are times when I wish he … [Read more...]

I have a good friend of mine - Sandi Hardmeier who has spent many a day fighting some of the worst spyware out there in the wild. A lot of her work goes unrecognised, and at times when it is recognised, it's done without clearing naming "the MVP from Australia" who has yet again saved many a person from infection. More often than not, she gets no recognition at all as the … [Read more...]