My new cellphone is arriving today I hope. For the past few days I have been getting error messages on my Nokia 6600 warning about a SIM card having issues. So, either a new cellphone will help this, or I have a new cellphone anyway except I need to get a new SIM card from Optus. Either way I have the new phone…

Yesterday was an important anniversary for the world economy. Apart from being a friends birthday it was also the 50th anniversary of the shipping container. Before that the world just packed parcels into ships with cargo nets and the like. The container was a real improvement for international trade.

One of my friends has been working with VisualStudio 2005, and has been having problems with the application sometimes creating a file called app_offline.htm and things would not work correctly when attempting to publish the site. After some reading and some investigations, it was found that the file is created if the particular web site being published is open in the web browser when the publish is attempted. Basically it is a cute way of saying that there was an error with the publishing.

Finally, MakeZine has linked to some photos on Flikr on what must be one of the worlds most customized motorcycles.