The website of IT trainer: toby

Welcome to my little corner of the web where the primary focus is on work, however, if you're lucky enough to be one of my students, and you are looking for online resources click on Resource Center in the main menu.

Below is a brief update of the projects I'm currently working on when I'm not teaching plus interesting technology stories.

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TobsBlog 2009-03-11

A new WebGuruGuide Story [webguruguide]

Click on the link to view my latest brain dump about drupal website design. Hopefully there will be some interesting comments posted :)

TobsBlog 2009-02-04

RFID is open to identity theft [vid]

What's the common denominator between biometric passports, smart cards and electronic driving licenses? RFID - sometimes called "spy chips". Never a good idea to start with... so maybe this video will open more people's eyes.

TobsBlog 2009-01-10

Game On! [link]

Play your way through the history of videogames... great exhibition here in Brisbane that started life in the Barbican Centre in London. Arcade games from my childhood that I'd forgotten about - the sit-in Star Wars xwing and Tron! Running here until 15 Feb 09.

TobsBlog 2008-11-17

Brisbane hit by worst storm in 25 years! [BBC news]

It was an amazing lightning show - lucky we still have the roof on the house. Check out this short bbc news story.

TobsBlog 2008-10-26

The Great Firewall of Australia? [BBC news]

Australia is about to trial ISP filtering of the Internet - will this turn Australia into a censored online zone like China? More in this BBC article...

TobsBlog 2008-03-09

Colour My World Chrome! [webguruguide]

My latest review of the new Google Chrome web browser - published on Web Guru Guide.

TobsBlog 2008-07-29

Windows PowerShell! [video]

Follow the link to my new video tutorial introducing the new Windows PowerShell - including navigation, creating new files and folders, saving output, pipelining, creating and running PowerShell script files.

TobsBlog 2008-07-17

New Training Video [video]

My latest training video is now available on the web - "Introduction to Windows Server 2008" which provides a brief overview of Microsofts latest server operating system.

TobsBlog 2008-06-10

AJAX 101 - A beginners guide to how AJAX really works! [webguruguide]

A series of articles of mine on webguruguide.com that gives a beginners guide to the workings of AJAX - includes info on browser compatibility and working examples.

TobsBlog 2008-06-05

Thai Govt monitors Internet creating an obvious slowdown [bangkok post]

Thailand's Internet is stuttering with a series of unexplained outages and slowdowns that experts say shows that the government is running a far-reaching programme to monitor its citizens' online activities - bangkokpost.com
I have TOT ADSL at home and youtube just doesn't work - also email is becoming unacceptably slow.

TobsBlog 2008-06-01

Facebook 'violates privacy laws' [article]

What a suprise! The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic has looked at Facebook and found it doesn't do enough to keep it's users data private.
Quote: "Some 14-year-old kid might not know ... the ramifications of having their private information disclosed to third parties."

TobsBlog 2008-05-19

Barcampchiangmai [contentclouds] [securityworld08]

Wow! The first ever Barcamp (tech conference) in Chiangmai was a great success with over 120 people attending presentations from 11am-6pm in three rooms.
Search for barcampchiangmai to find photos of the event.
I gave a presentation on Content Cloud Visualisation and a summary of the network security conference "Security World 2008". Highlights for me were the discussions on content Managment Systems and Social Networking Sites.

TobsBlog 2008-05-15

Barcamp Chiangmai [link]

The "open" tech conference is coming to chiangmai on 17th May.
I'll be participating and hopefully talking about Content Cloud Visualisation.
Check out the whole barcamp thing at barcamp.org - and amazingly enough it has nothing to do with drinking in a tent (Something I'm actually quite a pro at).

TobsBlog 2008-04-30

Hackers target the highstreet. [article]

The "Hackers Panel" at the InfoSecurity Europe conference in London this week gave their view of the next victims of cybercrime - big UK highstreet retailers. Many have embraced the web to advance their business model and will now be easy targets compared to banks and govenment services.
More in this article about the rise in attacks from China and the possible cover this gives to western governments efforts at cyber warfare!

TobsBlog 2008-04-03

Topless Meetings! [article] [fact]

An interesting article about the new trend in topless meetings - that's lap-topless.
I know that when people are multi-tasking they are also half-ignoring you, especially men... sorry guys but it's a documented fact - all that hunter-gatherer ancestry, it's in your genes.

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