Interesting Tid Bits

3 Types of People

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

A great little quote I read this morning!
There are 3 types of people in this world
1) People who make things happen
2) People who watch things happen
3) People who wonder wtf just happened

Egun On - Errenteria

Friday, February 29th, 2008

The nicest bakery / cafe in the world!
Where? Renteria, España (Errenteria, Euskal Herria)

eBay Interface ‘Buggy’

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

Is it just me or is the new eBay interface for sellers buggy?
Tried using IE, Firefox and Safari and all produce plenty of errors.

Limited Life For Line Rental!

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

Flicking through my January issue of APC Magazine today, I came across an interesting article explaining the introduction of broadband services over existing telephone lines without the need for a contract with Telstra/Optus/etc.
iiNet is offering what they call Naked DSL, which provides a broadband service over your phone line without an actual phone service. What […]

More Bikes Than Cars Sold In Australia

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

An interesting little story published on CyclingNews today.
Australians purchased 430,000 more bikes in 2007 than the 1.04million cars sold.
The full story - CyclingNews don’t have anchor links so you’ll have to scroll half way down the page to the story titled “Bikes continue to outsell cars in Australia”

Happy new year!

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

Happy new year to everybody!!!

Windows Vista Home Premium

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

For those considering upgrading to Vista, here is my experience with it so far.
I recently purchased a new laptop. I had it for 1 day! Issues were:

Apparently not having permissions (despite being the only user and the administrator) to turn of windows services or disable services at startup (using msconfig) - it all seems to […]

Philips 1GB Flash Drive Only Showing 486MB Free

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

After formatting the Philips 1GB flash drive a number of times, I still could not get it to show up the correct amount of free drive space.
The culprit - the CarryItEasy software that came on it. A trial version was pre-loaded onto the device and password protection was set for half the drive space when […]

mDNSResponder.exe - Nice work Apple

Friday, October 19th, 2007

Apparently, due to popular opinion (http://www.neuber.com/taskmanager/process/mdnsresponder.exe.html), a little service mDNSResponder is installed by iTunes as default.
I found this little gem consuming too many system resources - turned it off quick smart! By default, it lives in C:\Program Files\Bonjour\
mDNSResponder.exe is no more

Readymechs

Sunday, September 9th, 2007

Readymechs are free, flatpack toys for you to print and build.

Fictive

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

Who doesn’t like a new t-shirt?
Fictive - http://www.fictive.com.au

Second Home

Friday, June 15th, 2007

This is my second home.

Supercross Championships

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

I had a sticky-beek at the 2006 Australian Supercross Championships in Avalon the other day….all of my photos had some sort of chicken-wire look….hhhmmmm