“We did Chucky, we did.”
DaleIf you’re of a certain age in Australia, you’ll recognise the title from a series of television advertisements for Telecom Australia’s Mobilenet cell phone network. It features a big-talking American…
The Tombstone Imperative
There is a term in aviation safety, called “The Tombstone Imperative”. Yes, it’s a bit of gallows humour. The term means that a fault or flaw will not be fixed…
Debt free, well almost …
Today is a happy day. Finally got off my arse and consolidated some debt. Now I only have a home mortgage. The reason why my credit card looked like the…
Resetting the Permission Required flag for SMS Remote Control.
We have a VBscript job that SMS 2003 runs weekly on all our client computers. Amongst other things, it sets the Permission Required flag for SMS Remote Control. In other…
Doing silly things on a motorcycle …
Such as doing a front wheel stand on a motorcycle. Aka a “stoppie”
There will be questions
from our non-technical users, such as "What are bytes, and where do I get 30 of them?"
HTC Desire breaks Microsoft Wireless keyboard
Or, in other words, your keyboard will no longer work. This too close to this breaks these: The cause, which I only found out by chance, AFTER I changed the…
Nice toasty laptop skin.
I’ve written before about laptops and burns. In a case from 2008, a 24 year old male suffered a second-degree burn on his thigh. In this mornings news paper, there…