After more frustration in the last couple of days with Telstra’s appalling email problems and web site outages, I jumped onto the IBM intranet to check out which ADSL provider we were allowed to use. I read the policy document much more clearly this time and noticed that the policy has changed !! No longer … [Read More »]

Woolworths have just committed a major gaffe and public relations nightmare. On Thursday they sent out the following email: Dear valued customer, Woolworths Homeshop (or Greengrocer as applicable) is conducting market research, to identify how we can further improve the service we provide to our customers. The research will consist of group discussions with customers … [Read More »]

Found another blast from the past today… an email I sent to a mailing list back in August 1997 about the new US Robotics Palm Pilot (before it was Palm or even 3com who owned the Palm !). I had read about the Palm Pilot (as it was called back then) in a magazine, and … [Read More »]

Made a couple of changes to my website – I have integrated the various parts of the site together on the hampel.net.au domain name and created a master menu for navigation. Both the blog and photo gallery take advantage of this too. http://www.hampel.net.au/ Let me know if there are any broken links and such that … [Read More »]

I found something even worse than the mailing list archives… a file library which has copies of files that I uploaded to one of the old file mirror archives way back when. I was an avid OS/2 user back in my uni days – and when IBM created their own web browser “WebExplorer” for OS/2, … [Read More »]