Hey, at least it’s not us!
DaleI was on the 55 tram heading to Parkville, stuck at the Elizabeth Street/Royal Parade. It's not as bad as the Magic Roundabout, but it has it's moments. "What the…
Beardy types, in a training course.
I was at a Microsoft training course today, and all the beardy types were there too. You know, the "we want everything for free" types. They can be found working…
Meet FIDO – Mascot of the FIDOnet network
FIDO is the mascot of the FidoNet community. A sad bunch of lonely IT geeks wonderful group of community-spirited people who ran Bulletin Board Systems (BBS), networked to FidoNet. Actually,…
I could just grab a scalpel …
Seen over at the Daily WTF, this gem, ... K.G. tried to reason with him, kidding-on-the-square with an example a doctor might understand: "Granted, I don't have any formal medical…
Sharp practice – eBay seller postage rip-off scam
Since I last wrote, I've managed to expand my collection of cufflinks to 20ish sets. It's all the fault of eBay. They were priced so cheap. Postage was a killer…
On bad (computer generated) advice.
Lemmings, a popular PC game released in 1991. It involved you (the player) guiding lemmings to safely over gorges, broken bridges & cliffs (see screen shot right). Lemmings were essentially…
Making your laptop battery run for longer
I'm not a Macbook Pro user, so I don't suffer from a hot lap. But if I did, I'd zoom right along to here and download smcFanControl, right now. It…
Advertising Windows Errors
I tolerate Microsoft Windows. I would probably like it if I wasn't involved in supporting it. On occasion, systems running Windows do something REALLY stupid. (see left). Yes, that's right.…
Purpose: Install new data line set, and switch all 5 sites across.
... just another Sunday night ... 1945hrs - Travel into work. 2030hrs - Some bastard parked across our company car park driveway. 2045hrs - Find and pay for another car…
Canna hand a man a grander spanner – Copernic
Update 2013: I no longer use these two products, I am using Agent Ransack instead. I call it Copernic It works, and has indexed just over 40,000 documents / 1…