Disable Missed Call Spam on Telstra Prepaid

November 29th, 2025

My phone shows missed calls like every other phone in the world. It also accepts SMS messages from people that WANT to send them. I hate checking messages and always get them too late, I also hate “you missed a call but the caller did not leave a message” texts, and I never like to “leave a short ten second message and it will be sent as a text”. SO I just spend over an hour working this all out.

dial #002#

dial **61*101**30#

SMS “DCF OFF” to 144

Inside a Telstra WiFi Hotspot

August 15th, 2023

Here’s one of those pink boxes on payphones with it’s cover removed.

Telstra During Lockdown

August 10th, 2021

This is a typical floor at Telstra’s Exhibition Street Headquaters.

Usually it’s hard to find a desk here, the lunchrooms, meeting rooms and lobby are all full, there’s a bit of a wait for one of the twenty lifts and there is a constant stream of people going through the gates. It’s not even this empty in the middle of the night!

There are 45 floors just like this. Instead of thousands of people at “242”, there were like 10 – 20 max, probably the time I most felt alone during lockdown, it was weird because it’s usually a really active, chatty place

First Student WiFi, Adelaide University

March 25th, 2002

One claim to fame, I installed the first student wifi in Adelaide Uni in 2002, now it’s part of normal university inffrastructure and totally taken for granted! Here’s a picture of a friend’s daughter “using” it… note the external PCMCIA* wifi card hanging out the side, literally laptops didn’t have wifi built in back then!

*People Can’t Memorise Computer Industry Acronyms 😉