I have finally worked out where I neglected to go in London – The BritishLibrary. I forgot that they often have cool stuff. Next time. The same nexttime when I go to Bletchley Park. Turns out that the person who …
Author: Darryl Smith
WiFi in the UK and USA
I have been looking at the prices of WiFi in the UK. The prices are horrible. For some reason I feel that a price of 16 UK Pounds for 24 hours access is slightly excessive. And by slightly excesive, I …
Surprise Wedding 2
Channel Seven is running adverts right now for this show called “Surprise Wedding 2” where guys are conned to some to the studio for their own wedding. Of course without telling them before hand. And with this series they are …
The world of Public Holidays
I am constantly amazed by the fact that I never have any ideas of holidays in the rest of the world. Case in point. I am flying into Los Angeles on Monday Morning their time. I think this is tuesday …
Carrier Problems, and a bug in my blogger.
This is my fourth attempt to write thie BLOG entry. The others have been erased when I attempted to copy the text. To copy I went to the end of the text, and pressed the shift key. Then I paged …
Windows Services – Starting and Stopping with VB.Net
Over the past week I have been attempting to write a program that monitored a server, and restart the service as required. This is harder than it sounds. Only because searching the documentation takes so long. The answer… Imports System.serviceprocess …
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Movies
Here are the movies I will be seeing when I am away. Alitalia does not describe their ones on their site. AA Movies might be Harry Potter and/or The Whole Ten Yards Sydney to Aukland Ladykillers Aukland to LA Stepford …
Sitecopy
When you need to copy files arround, RSYNC from the guys that brought us SAMBA is probably the best tool arround. But sometimes RSYNC is not an option. The big reason would be when the server at the other end …
Telstra Billing Problems – Part 2
I have previously mentioned that I had some issues with a small charge for MMS on my bill. The charge was for $0.75. Nothing really. Not worth my time . But I complained about it anyway. I found out today …
On a Wing and a Prayer (and a Fuselage)
Friday Afteroon I met Richard at his place in order to pick up the Wings and the Fuselage for his plane. I arrived there about 1PM, and we then took a 2 Ton truck over to Botany to the docks. …
Olympic Security
The Sydney Morning Herald has a Story on security in the Olympics, and how A$1.5 Billion was spent on it. According to the article, they had “12 patrol boats, 4000 vehicles, 9 helicopters, four mobile command centres, and a blimp.” …
116th Blog Item Spectacular
Wow. This is my 116th post in this blog. Well, I did cheat by about 20 yesterday by adding my Olympic BLOG, but that is really negligable compared to the other posts. I started Blogging at the end fo June, …
Telstra Billing Problems
I just got my monthly Telstra bill. Of course there are problems. One of the charges is for a Mobile Enhanced SMS message – A.K.A. MMS. This would be fine apart from a few problems a) The SIM card is …