I managed to sleep in this morning… By the end of the week I think I will have adjusted for the end of the coming daylight saving. I managed to wake up just before 7am today… Sometimes it is nice …
I mentioned earlier about the report on ASIO forcing people to securely wipe parts of their HDDs. Well, I was talking to a friend about this, and printed the report out for him. It turns out he used to work …
A few minutes back I had a SKYPE from a friend in New Zealand… He wanted to show SKYPE off to a visitor so he contacted me… His visitor was impressed… Even more so when he was able to use …
I just had a neighbour from a few houses up come over and ask for help. His daughter and wife had been spending hours trying to get windows media player working properly with a video projector for the daugher’s 21st …
Finally, something worthwhile buying on eBay. There is a WWII Enigma Machine up for auction. If the price was not so high I would bid on it. With a few days to go the price is already 9998 Euro. I …
I have got some work done today… A tracker went out the door – I found some issues caused by the debugging information… Fun. Basically the debugging information was using up too much CPU time and other things were not …
The Register is reporting on the latest music sales figures from ARIA. In overview, sales are down of physical media thanks to legal and illegal downloads, and increased choice. Ringtones are up… And strangly the same people who have an …
Argh. Argh. Argh. Does that explain a few things? Let me explain. Point number one… I was having a few issues getting a tracker working. Then I realised – I somehow told it I was using the wrong type of …
PositScience has an online test to check the speed of your brain. I have not tried it. I know the speed of mine. SLOW! Network World has an article describing the 20 most important products of the last 20 years …
Some things SHOULD be illegal. Some things probably are. I am not sure if molesting cars is but it looks like it should be! The WTF section is hillarious as to what people have done to perfectly good cars. As …
According to The Register, Apple have just released a Disney movie on iTunes. Is is suspected that the movie download service will be released for Apple’s 30th anniversary later this week. The movie download costs just under US$10. In japan, …
I have just got home from a meeting… Before the meeting I decided to spend an hour extra working on the plane – trying to fix the problem with the canopy alignment. Unfortunately I dont think we got anywhere with …
Some cool links. Firstly, is the Wikipeda entry for Top Gear. It provides a lot more interesting trivia on this great show! They also have a page on Brainiac. The stuff they have there must be seen to be believed! …
There is a review of the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood in Escape in News.Com.Au. This has been one of the great hotels for ages, although I have never stayed there since it has quite frankly looked yucky from the outside. …
I managed to sleep in this morning… I really needed it having stayed up late two nights in a row watching The Simpsons on Foxtel. At least that it was self inflicted I guess… I think I am still waking …