Collaborate Disseminate
It’s a late, early in the day, hazy, bush-firey Aussie weekly update with a whole bunch of various bits and pieces of interest from throughout the week. The references below will give you a sense of how much I’ve jammed into this week so I won’t repeat it all here
We’re pretty much at a “secure by default” internet these days, at least that’s the assumption with most websites, particularly so in the financial sector. About 80% of all web pages are loaded over an HTTPS connection, browsers are increasingly naggy when anything isn’t HTTPS and it’s never been cheaper
It’s been a pretty full week this one with a couple of talks in Sydney followed by another in Melbourne. Then, to top it all off, getting sick hasn’t helped and oh boy did this one hurt. Good news is that even just a few hours after recording this video
Ah, impending summer on the Gold Coast! It’s that time of year when you can just start to sense those warm beach days and it’s absolutely my favourite time of year here. Which means… it’s time to head off to other events again. Fortunately it’s all domestic this time as
It’s my first conference back in Australia since probably about May and I’m experiencing a rare luxury – not flying! I’m sticking to driving some big distances just to get a break from the tyranny that is check-in, security and airport lounges. Seriously, it was beginning to do my head
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Australia! Geez it’s nice to sit amongst the gum trees and listen to the birds, even if it’s right in the middle of some fairly miserable weather. I’ll continue to be here for the foreseeable future too, at least in one state or another. But being back here hasn’t stopped
Well, this will be the last weekly update done overseas for some time as I count down the return to beaches, sunshine and fantastic coffee (yes, I’m confident saying that even whilst in Italy!) It’s been a non-stop trip with an attempt of a bit of downtime at the end
It’s been a bit of intense country-hopping since the last update so this one is a consolidated “this week in tweets” version. I actually found it kind of interesting going back through the noteworthy incidents of the week in lieu of having original content of my own, see what you
Hungary! And that’s about as much intro as I’m going to do on that because this is going out super later and I’m writing this at the end of a very long day. Only other thing I’ll mention is the audio – the Instamic failed to record again so it’s
Allow me to be controversial for a moment: arbitrary password restrictions on banks such as short max lengths and disallowed characters don’t matter. Also, allow me to argue with myself for a moment: banks shouldn’t have these restrictions in place anyway.
I want to put forward cases for both arguments
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