Author: Darryl Smith

Last night I went to the Bob Dylan concert with a couple of other members of the list. Let’s start with the support act. Unlike most concerts they were competent and their sound was mixed fairly well. The exception was …

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I have just spoken to Mum. Her doctor came to visit and filled her in on the Stem Cell blood tests. Whilst the indicator tests were OK, it would appear that the Stem Cell count was not really high enough, …

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The Sydney South West Area Health Service has a PDF file for people wanting to link to their WWW site. The PDF is Here. I have not filled in the form, and I am pretty sure that it is bogus. …

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I have been doing some programming with Bluetooth on the PC. I was amazed that there are at least three different Bluetooth stacks under XP. They are Toshiba, Widcom and Microsoft. Of these Microsoft seems to be the one that …

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I picked up a Soundblaster Audigy 2ZS Video Editor from PressDigital yesterday and I must say that I am really impressed. Normally I am not one of these people who buys high-end sound cards, or video cards. Well, apart from …

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My birthday today… Mum is home but she has a temperature so the doctors have asked her to come into hospital. I have the flu so she will be wearing a facemask. I need to have a quick shower to …

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I have been having some dropouts on my Westnet ADSL 2+. The dropouts have been really bad in the last few days, and I decided to fix things. I use a Billion Bipac 5102 ADSL modem. This is one of …

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I had my birthday party last night, and it went well. A few people could not make it, but it was fun none the less. I want to concentrate on the menu since I found a great combination of foods …

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I have had an interesting idea for a business venture… “Cards for Teddy Bears”. This might also be known as “Cards for Bears”. But why? Well, with mum in Hospital and with me visiting most days, I was taken by …

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There was a story in the SMH about how a 76 year old got a ticket for parking in a No Stopping zone going to a dawn service. And complaining how no discretion was used, and how he should have …

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I got ADSL 2+ installed today with Westnet, and I should say that I am not totally impressed by some things. First, when I was moved over, I kept my old IP address for a while. In fact I kept …

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One of the missing features in Outlook 2007 is the ability to preview PDF files, like JPG, PNG, XLS and WORD documents. So, I am impressed to see a PDF Viewer for Microsoft Outlook. Whilst this is not an ‘Official’ …

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I have been playing with the Tibbo DS202 Serial To Ethernet converter from PressDigital in Sydney, and I must say I am impressed with the unit. I was investigating a different unit for a client, and came across this one …

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