Writing.
I write across cybersecurity, men’s health, critical thinking, and what comes after fifty. Some of it written here, the rest collected from the brands I build. It all lives here.
Two Wires Into the Building
One internet connection is a single point of failure for your whole business. A second service - different supplier, different technology - fixes it.
From Red Bridge Cyber27 Aug 2026
The Work With Someone Else's Name On It
A composite reflection on decades of consulting - the good work, and the quiet structure that kept detaching it from the person who did it. Why I build my own things now.
26 Aug 2026
Your Phone Is Now a Single Point of Failure
A business partner lost his phone overseas - and the telco needed the number to verify the man asking about the number. Your MFA has the same loop.
From Red Bridge Cyber20 Aug 2026
The Afternoon I Stopped Calling It Age
Somewhere in my fifties I started accepting a verdict on the one system I can't replace. This is about the change in thinking, not the protocol - the day I stopped calling it age and started calling it a question.
17 Aug 2026
Pattern Recognition: The Skill Every Lab Technician Is Building Without Knowing It
Pattern recognition isn't a natural talent - it's an accumulated database built through disciplined observation. Lab training builds it faster than almost any other environment.
From ABC Training & Consulting15 Aug 2026
Write the Run Book Before You Need It
Your laptop was stolen overnight. From a borrowed computer, get back into your business. The document that makes that possible is a run book.
From Red Bridge Cyber13 Aug 2026
A Backup You Haven’t Restored Is a Hope, Not a Backup
Backups are the most-ticked, least-tested box in small business. ASD’s guidance says to test restores regularly - here’s why almost nobody does.
From Red Bridge Cyber6 Aug 2026
The Scan I Assumed Was Broken
The first time I measured the security basics of a batch of ordinary small-business domains, the results were so bad I assumed my own tool was faulty. It wasn't.
6 Aug 2026
Projects.
A couple of small open-source projects in the works - visual editors, both still rough, both in the open while the shape gets worked out.
About.
Australian, early fifties. Police intelligence first, then a physics degree I never put inside a lab and thirty years across as broad a sweep of Australian ICT as you can have without specialising - programming, infrastructure, network architecture, cybersecurity, project management, senior consulting. The lab skills I never used still show up every day in how I look at a problem.
I’m not selling inspiration. I write about what three decades of hard-won experience actually looks like - what to do with it when the employment market stops paying for it, what critical thinking is for, and what personal responsibility looks like when no-one is watching. On men’s health it’s the same tone: stop accepting fifteen-minute appointments and a prescription with no workup, stop coasting on convenience, start giving a damn about the body you actually live in. The rest of the trail is below - where to reach me directly, and links to my various ventures.