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.
Why Being Comfortable with Uncertainty Is a Superpower
Performed certainty is everywhere. The rarer skill — knowing exactly where the boundary between known and unknown sits — is one STEM training builds quietly and consistently.
From ABC Training & Consulting15 July 2026
The Tools I Stopped Renting
Over a year I quietly replaced most of the software I used to pay for with tools I built myself. The money saved is the least interesting part of what happened.
13 July 2026
Th@ts!s3cure: Why Complex Passwords Aren’t Strong Passwords
NIST’s 2025 guidelines dropped complexity rules: length beats symbols. A 2011 stick-figure comic was right all along — most password policies still aren’t.
From Red Bridge Cyber9 July 2026
Why I Keep a Blog I Never Meant to Start
A personal site that began as a filing cabinet and turned into the one place I write — irregularly, un-syndicated, about the three things I keep coming back to.
3 July 2026
Nobody Is Coming to Fix Your Website
In June 2026 the same 150 Australian small-business sites medianed A+ on technical SEO and F on security. The difference is what was on the launch checklist.
From Red Bridge Cyber2 July 2026
ASD Is Retiring the Essential Eight. Don't Wait Two Years to Fix the Basics.
ASD is retiring the Essential Eight, quietly admitting it was built for a world we've left. A founder's take: don't wait for the replacement — and don't assume it fits small business.
From Red Bridge Cyber2 July 2026
Big Budgets, F-Grade Basics: What Our 450-Domain Scan Found
We scanned 450 domains Australians rely on. Enterprise and government medianed an F on web security — same grade as small business. Budget didn’t buy basics.
From Red Bridge Cyber25 June 2026
The real reason your pen-tester didn’t find anything wrong
A clean penetration test report often proves the scope was wrong, not the business safe. With AU tests running $5k-$40k and the average breach now AUD $4.26M, here’s what to ask before you trust the result.
From Red Bridge Cyber18 June 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.