What a day… I worked most of the day on getting some software and hardware out for the Telstra Rally series in Western Australia. I ended up spending about $150 on express post to get everything out on time. I …
The Wall Street Journal has an article about one of the reporters who was investigated illegally by HP. They even got hold of her phone bills and bugged her MSN conversations. No wonder people are being charged. In London someone …
Kazakhstan is having a bad time at the moment. First there was a comedian who was making fun of the country. Now they are going to be the only country in the world which has money with the wrong spelling …
Last nights meeting was interesting. It was on management options for the local preschool. To be honest my views slightly changed, but I did not change from my view that there should be local control. So I gave the powers …
According to the SMH it seems likely a bolt came from a plane and hit a house today. But the person was saying that it would have a serial number on it… if it was a plane. Maybe. The plane …
I have got no work done yet today. And it is 2pm. Maybe that is some indication how much I distrust a certain organisation closely associated with Pancake Day. And from speaking to other people I am not the only …
A few years back I used a Quik Internet dialup account in New Zealand. They have now just been purchased by IHUG. And so I got a credit note for $3.91 from them for some reason. I told the customer …
I am not getting much work done. I certainly have work to do but I am distracted with child care centre rubbish. And this is me, without any kids. At least without any I know about 🙂 There are too …
Spamhaus can add another person to the people using their service. I have put my mail server onto deleting SPAM automatically. I think it has cut the amount of SPAM significantly. I will know later when I see the report …
Yesterday was interesting… I met with a friend from interstate briefly on his way through Sydney… It was great to catch up as always. Pymble was good, but for some reason I just felt distracted all day. I suspect that …
Today will be really interesting. At about 9am I need to drop a report and a letter into the local preschool. The report is likely to be contraversial to say the least, so I intend to drop it in and …
According the the BBC, there us a dumb plan in Hungary to track passengers in an airport down to 1m. Sure, this can be a cute technology if they need to find someone who looks as if they are about …
I am just back from a job… The client was complaining some hardware was not working. I could not find any problem with the half that he sent across so I needed to do a site visit. When I got …
The BBC has a story on the Bali Memorial in London. I saw this when I was there last month… Although it was still mostly undercover and the huge globe was missing. Another Link. And here is a great photo …
Firstly, Radioactive Snails have been discovered in Spain where the US dropped a few bombs by accident 40 years ago spreading radiation. The bombs did not explode though, and the US cleaned up the site. Now snails are being found …