Cooking for Engieers is a cute site, based on the premise that us engineers cannot cook. Yeah, sure. I can certainly cook anything that I put my mind to without too many issues. But their Recipie Structure is sort of cute, with pictures at the bottom of the page showing what ingredients need to be put together. The MakeEZine has a story on how it is better for a theif to steal a car and sell the parts than the whole car. And it only takes 15 minutes to strip a car of the most expensive items.

Although not as useful as it once was, The Hardware Book has so much information on computer hardware – cables, connectors, pinouts and the like. Very useful reference material.

On the VoIP front, I am looking at buying an Ethernet phone… well, that, and a device that will allow me to digitize my incoming phone line – a Supura 3000. I really do not like the idea of having to have all these little stand alone units, but it is the cheapest way. I am looking at getting one or both from WarCom.com.au