On the really cool side, this morning I was emailed a 6 mByte word document. Why was it so big? Dunno. Anyway it was from my friend Bill Kovacs in LA. The story was about how REZN8, a company that …
I need to vote in the election this morning… It is just a bi-election when Craig Knowles resigned from State Parliment. Simple task. But this is the third election in the last 12 months for me. I have had a …
I just found a strange feature of most mobiles – a Message Validity setting. This is the time an SMS message will try to be sent before it is killed off if it is not delivered. Some phones you can …
After a few hassles I am getting stuff ready for clients. And I am getting things ready for my trip. I will probably get to the Airport by train on Sunday morning arriving about 10:30. That fits in best with …
I am still somewhat stiff and sore from the last couple of days of work. Let me paint a picture of one of the things I was doing. We needed to install a chandelier above the stairs. This was fine. …
I am really tired right now – I have just returned home after a full days installing light fittings. I lost count of how many I installed. Far too many. There were a number of different types – track lights, …
Today I will be doing more wiring… I hope not to spend as much time there today as tomorrow, but we will see. Google have just released a new type of search – Blog Search. This will search only Blogs …
I have just almost finished my code. What do I mean by Almost Finished? Hmm… What a stupid comment to make you might say. Well, the code is doing what it is supposed to. It is sending a bit too …
I have just got home from a long day at work. I was putting lights in at a friends house. All in all I think I put in about 11 down lights, four normal outside lights, two outside sensor lights …
The TechQuarium site has instructions on how to turn your old Mac into an Aquarium. One of these days I will build one of these. The TreeHugger site has some instructions on how to purify water using a UV tube. …
I have just finished watching Geoffery Robertsons Hypertheticals. Rather an interesting show, and channel 9 has not improved it’s editing over the years. This show was brutally edited making it hard at times to keep up. Questions were edited out, …
I did a run this morning – I think I must have run about just under 4km. It was good, but I was getting out of breath and tired near the end. My fitness levels are certainly improving significantly. I …
Quick Update… One of my spare time activities at the moment is a tracker system for gliders. This is becoming really interesting. We have more orders already for this product than for any other product I have every worked on… …
ArsTechnica has a review of the iPod Mini, and to top that off, they look at how much work is needed to actually kill the device. But they did it for a purpose – to also show the internals of …
Quick Link… According to DesignTechnica, AOL have purchased SKYPE for $4.1 billion. As of today, there have been 164 million downloads. That might give 100m users since some users have downloaded the software more than once. That means that at …