The Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing clearly thinks doctors are idiots. The website for the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (under which medications are subsidised so patients don’t pay full price – at least for some medications) was re-designed a while back. Since that re-design I’ve noticed something. Something that bugs me. When you...
I’m calling an end to my Telstra vs Vodafone thing now. I had plans to compare their results with the speedtest iApp, and continue reporting my general experience of Telstra till the credit ran out – but then Gaddafi. And now another earthquake in Christchurch, NZ – with fatalities this time. I don’t care...
Really not much to add to the first day, to be honest. We headed up the Blue Mountains yesterday, and I noticed very good reception. My wife’s vodafone iPhone 3G did report similar reception, but kid-wrangling didn’t allow us to do a test of relative data speeds. I did find – as on Friday...
Today was the first day of my Telstra vs Vodafone experiment, after yesterday unlocking my iPhone 3G from the #vodafail network, and replacing it temporarily with a Telstra pre-pay sim. Temporary, because I’m still under contract with Vodafone until August or September this year. First impression: Telstra, win! I had good signal strength even at home,...
Just this morning, while driving with my medical student between home visits, I was holding forth about the excellent public transport here in Sydney. While most Sydneysiders think it terrible, I would invite them to spend some time in Auckland before condemning Sydney’s public transport. Anyhoo … irony struck this afternoon, when it appears...
