I just logged into my gMail account… And found that a friend of mine had sent me a link to the site www.cookingforengineers.com… I have not looked at it yet… But the name sounds cute. I am a fairly good…

I have not managed to get away from the PC yet… A friend IM’ed me so I am having a conversation with him. So here is more to the blog whist his replies come in. I spent about an hour…

DasKeyboard have released a computer keyboard that they claim can double the speed of typists. What they do is simple – they don’t print any of the letters on the keyboard. Aparently the brain then stops looking at the keyboard…

I thought that I had worked out how to change the oil on my car. Use the wheel ramps. Place a big sheet of cardboard under it. Use a tub for the old oil, but place a garbage bag in…

My MP3 collection is getting tidier. I am down to about 5850 tracks. Well, actualy it is a few less since I have the audio CD’s from the ABC series on The Olympics called ‘The Games’ there, and that takes…

I returned the FM transmitter to Tandy at lunch time – returning it was really simple and painless. I just said that the device would not work thanks to the number of radio stations in the local area running on…

I went down to Vodafone to pick up the SIM card. That was a bit of a painful experience. Their IT systems were running slowly thanks to RemoteDesktop being slow. Their phones were running with about a 10 second delay…

An update on the album art program. It is looking great. I did not realise you could select all your tracks and say ‘Search for Album Covers and Update’. This worked fairly well. I am doing this in the background…

Updating Album Art in iTunes can be a pain. But there is an answer. It is iTunes Art Importer from YVG Software Services. This is freeware, and works really well. Except that it crashes if your music files are set…

I have just spoken to a colleague in Ettamonga… He is driving up to Sydney, and I would guess he will be up here about 8PM or so. But I knew where he was before I rang him – he…

I have a few things to do today and I am running a bit behind. My desk has piles of stuff on it, and lots of to-do lists… Hmm. Too much to do. Too little time. I have a PCB…