Finally home after spending the afternoon building. I think we ended up doing about eight hours working on the canopy frame. For those who have no idea what I am talking about, this is the five pieces of metal welded …
The Instructables site has details on how to make a pop up card. This looks like a great idea for people into scrapbooking… And for the person who has absolutly everything in the gift deparment, and who love chocolate, comes …
Watching STEALTH was similar to what I expected, but different. It was good to see the movie since I did some hardware to be used by the producers of the movie on location. Given that was my interest, I was …
I have seen some movies today… I wanted to visit the cinema but there was nothing on that I wanted to see. I want to see ‘V for Vendetta’ but it was not on anywhere locally. So I borrowed some …
There are times when I wish I had a girlfriend. This is one of those times. I found a great great project, and I would love to have someone to build it for… They are LED ear-rings. The instructions are …
In what must be one one of the more interesting fraud cases, NEC has found an employee who it would appear created something like US$300m in fake purchase orders from the company for ‘food and drink’. As if that was …
Tomorrow I actually have a saturday off from working on the pane. I have yet to decide what I will do… Maybe go to the movies or something else. I dunno. Might be fun not to plan anything yet, and …
The Mother Jones Web Site has a really biased view of the world of Intellectual Property. As an example they cite a press release that states that a large archive of 11 million photos has been placed into a bunker …
Recycling – Before and After. The entire 616 pages were scanned on both sides before shredding. That means there were 1232 scanned images recorded in PDF files – taking about 300 MBytes, or 1/2 of a CD-ROM, or about 7.5% …
Why is it that I sometimes seem to get nothing done during the day? It just seems to happen. Maybe it is days when I get fewer than normal emails and phone calls from clients – I dont know. Anyway …
This morning I need to do two freebie computer repairs. Our minister’s computer needs to be set up so that her old PC can see the Internet. And the sound is not working at the Child Care Centre on one …
I didn’t get around to going on a run today. I really did not feel like it – I wanted to go, but just felt that it was probably not the best thing to do. Maybe tomorrow, but I will …
I started putting together my files for tax, and realised how much paper I had. More specifically I worked out how much paper I had in Telstra and Optus bills. So I decided to get them all together, and found …
First piece of news… SonyEricsson and Wavecom have decided to combine forces on their M2M produts. That is Wavecom have purchased the GSM/GPRS modem division of SonyEricsson. I think that this will be good for SonyEricsson who have had insanely …
According to StopBadware.COM which is a corporate anti-spyware company, KAZZA installs spyware when it is installed without telling you, and is hard to completely uninstall. I know these two statements are hard to believe, but that is what the report …
