I am home today… I have a few things to do – to catch up on… I might be building tomorrow afternoon but we will see. The SMH has a set of three articles describing the disaster of the selloff …
Still no news from my New Zealand friend. I am guessing he managed to catch an earler flight and was not able to ring beforehand. Just a guess on my behalf. With some luck I will managed to see him …
A friend of mine sent me an email containing a few footpath drawings of Julian Beever. Once I did a search I found his site which contains a few more of his amazing drawings. Unlike most people who draw in …
I have not heard from my New Zealand friend yet – I am guessing he is at the Airport waiting to arrange his ticket to the USA. Because of the type of ticket, he is on standby regardless of how …
There has been news about london banning an anagram Map of their rail system. So here is the CityRail map…here They have anagrams for all the stations… except Rooty Hill, Clyde and Pymble… I like Gay Manor just near blacktown, …
Right now I have the video clip for Alphaville’s Forever Young on the TV whilst I am typing this. The advantage with being able to almost touch type is that I can multi-task at least to some extent where at …
There are times that I feel that I have not got any work done. And then there are days like today that I am sure that I have not got any real work done. For instance there was a meeting …
Short run today… 5.1KM and 37m10s. That means I ran about 8.233KM/H. I am sure that I could have done better but I had a couple of phone calls in the middle which caused problems with my breathing. Which in …
I got a book in the mail from AMAZON.COM yesterday called ‘Droidmaker’ which is some of the history of George Lucas and his company Industrial Light and Magic. Not that I am a great fan of StarWars, I love the …
During the night I had a Skype chat from a friend in New Zealand letting me know he will be in Oz from 8AM until 3PM or so this afternoon, and wanting to know if I want to do lunch. …
This is so cute… a DIY Hoverboard… Basically a personal version of a hovercraft just larger than a skateboard. Built using a small petrol leaf blower, and some wood and some other bits and pieces… I am not sure I …
I have just finished building up my first OpenTracker. Since I am now the Australian Distributor of this device I thought I had better build one so that I could see what they are like. I am quite impressed. They …
There is a story on News.Com.Au about an armoured car robbery in Sydney at the QANTAS facility at the airport. According to the report two robbers stole a cool $1m in cash. I did look at selling a tracking system …
I am not totally sure how useful this is, but WikiPedia is now available as an 800 MByte eBook for your iPod. I dont think there are any pictures in it reducing the usability slightly, but this sounds like a …