Forgeries, Fakes and Forensics
DaleRecently went to a talk by Victoria Police Chief Forensic Scientist, Bryan Found PhD, titled “Forgeries, Fakes and Forensics”. Bryan Found is a very engaging presenter. Things I found of…
Light My Fire Spork.
A couple of these arrived in the post the other day. One of my co-workers has one, and following the standard protocol in the office I decided to thieve it*…
Seen on a walk – Inner Circle Train Line
There’s this bit of track on a path in the Edinburgh Gardens, Fitzroy. I thought they were tram tracks, so I asked agreencow who is a noted tram gunzel,…
And the ATM customer walked away …
We had a call from Footscray Police Station late one Friday night. We’ve had a man walk in with $200 claiming that he found it sitting in the ATM cash…
Parked on the street! LJ XU-1 Torana
While walking home, I spotted this LJ XU-1 Torana: it was manufactured in January 1974. I’ve seen it driving on the street, and it was a pleasure to see it…
Mobile friendly web sites
This collection of (mainly Australian) mobile phone friendly links was something I put together (almost) four years ago. All the links still work from a mobile phone, which was a…
Tamper evident seals on fire extinguishers
I like tamper evident seals on fire extinguishers, I really do. It allows for a quick visual check to see if someone has grabbed a fire extinguisher, used it and…
Fire extinguishers in Australian Office Buildings
Spent the morning looking at the number of fire extinguishers needed in an Australian office building (ie. a Class 5 building). Here’s the process I followed as a Health and…
How to open a WD Elements USB2 External Drive
You carefully lever the bottom of the case, out of the case. Here are a couple of photos which demonstrate this: After I got the case open, I was impressed…
“Who is doing what on your PC now???”
This is an ad for iOpus Starr software from February 2003. Considering the breath of the Edward Snowden revelations about the US Government being able to break into pretty much…