Walking The Dog!

The blog might be updated a little less frequently than usual for the next few days - I’m going walkies!!
Well ok, I’m currently in the process of changing ISP’s ands whilst the new techs tell me they will try to have the account set up overnight, they admit it could take up to a *week* [...]

Smiley Miley

It’s possible some of you might never have heard of singer Billy Ray Cyrus, but I’ll bet there are a lot fewer of you who’ve never heard of his daughter Miley who has been making a name of her own with her alter ego as “Hannah Montana” especially if you have kids around you!
Over the [...]

And up (grade) we go.

Yes I’ve been quiet and no I’m *still* not 100% right… ignoring those who suggest unkindly that I was never right to begin with. However, things being what they are I sat by the computer and again saw on each of the blogs a request that I update the Wordpress blog software installation.
Unfortunately I am [...]

Angela vs Wendy

You want a discussion about diaphragms… or Brazilian waxing… or big cars… or plastic surgery…  or… ?? Well now’s your chance.
For those of you have listened to me ramble on incessantly about Angela Catterns (and occasionally Wendy Harmer) now is your chance to listen to those honeyed tones and find out why her voice is [...]

More Fings…. etc.

I was again having a ponder about how life has changed over the years when I began considering how much the mobile phone has become an integral part of life for many… if not most… of us.
Twenty years ago the wife and I lived in Central London, however she worked in Croydon which for those [...]

Mr Technology puts the hammer down!!

I decided over the past few weeks I needed to upgrade the security of my home wireless network because it was on a relatively weak WEP system with a 10 digit password.
For reasons anyone with a little knowledge would accept, I chose the WPA and… to be safe… chose a 40 character alphanumeric password. Wonderful.
I [...]

Samsung Omnia (i900) update

Seen a price for an imported 16Gb version of the Samsung Omnia i900 which comes in at around AU$1018.28 which seems to me to be a pretty good price… especially bearing in mind my having bought the iMate JasJam for a similar price 3 years or so ago.
I’m not buying it at this price though. [...]

Bought an iPhone - seen better?

So let’s see. Who got sucked into the hype and like a million others went out and bought an iPhone? Oops… you did?
Well, if you *did* rush out and buy one I doubt you’ll be too happy reading the rest of this article.
To be honest I was considering rushing out with the rest of the [...]

Looking better? I’m not sure meself.

After some consideration I changed the theme to ‘Kepple’ (by Madewira - link below if you like it) which I’ve also used on the ‘Etymology’ blog. Now it’s all very well for *me* to like it but it needs to be ‘liked’ by visitors, so if you have any issues with it… like it *or* [...]

Hope for the future.

If only as a distraction from the turmoil back here on Earth, the news that the Phoenix Mars Lander had made it down to the planets surface in one functioning piece is cause for celebration!
Sadly not equipped to roam as previous lander’s, it will nonetheless conduct experiments and send back valuable information - it might [...]

What shape is this?

Shape? Currently my Broadband Connection from Telstra is ’shaped’ to 64 kp/s down from 4.5Mb/s… this is *slow*. Using the net for the next few days is going to resemble jogging through treacle - Working hard and getting nowhere!!!
I’m quite seriously re-considering asking the wife if I can sign up to Virgin Mobile Broadband which [...]

Traveler DV-5040 versus The Flip

I saw an advert today for The Flip which is billing itself as ‘The World’s Simplest Video Camera’. Well of course this is all marketing hype par excellence.
The basic features of “The Flip” are very similar to another tiny video camera… which of course I bought a year or more ago… called The Traveler DV-5040.
Ok [...]

That’s Safari…

For preference I use Firefox as my browser of choice. It’s fast, easy to use and filled with features some other browsers don’t have. However, because I play with web pages I have to have the other major browsers available to ‘test’ that all I do looks similar in all of them.
The newest kid on [...]

Dreamweaver anyone?

No I’m not on something hallucinogenic, tho when you get up at 4:30 a.m. and discover your daughter who is supposed to be going skating in the wee small hours has decided to have a lie in instead you do begin to wonder…
… anyway, for those not ‘in the know’, I’m referring to that incredibly [...]

More on the gallery.

Considering making the ‘holding’ directory ‘password protected. It wouldn’t make a lot of difference to anyone who *really* wanted to get in, or who searched via Google for instance since it’s not that easy to prevent images being viewed on an open server, but it would make casual visitors slow down.
I’m only querying it because [...]

Gallery active, activated and operational.

I’ve adjusted the settings to the gallery at Imagery so that I manually register anyone who wants to join, assuming I know and trust them - which means you don’t get a ‘registration mail’.
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Edit:
You’ll all be glad to know I accidentally deleted everyone

Please rejoin and I’ll activate you when I get up… sorry… I [...]

Feedback please?

Just rebuilt the front page of the ODPS. I think it looks ok obviously but I can’t tell how it looks to visitors so if you’d click on the link and let me know what you think I’d appreciate it.
In theory the new ODPS logo will be at top left on all pages of the [...]

Not another new site?

Afraid so. This one is for Sally who is a ‘personal trainer’. It isn’t actually ‘live’ yet as I’m waiting for her to send me some of the bumf she wants uploaded… e.g. photos and similar.
Still, if anyone fancies a sneak peek so to speak… point your browsers to Ascension Fitness where the site will [...]

Like sand through a sieve.

My memory is getting worse as time goes by. I find I get so engrossed in some project or other that I forget or ignore all else… regardless of whether the other projects are completed or not!
One such project was getting the daughters holiday photos to her. She’d copied them to a DVD but when [...]

Yet *more* on video tapes!

Hot on the heels of my ’success’ with the Mini DV tapes, I was about to embark on a more ambitious project, namely to transfer all the even *older* tapes we have in Mini VHS format. Some of these go back to our earliest days in Australia so should hold exciting memories for us to [...]

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