Author: Administrator
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A scratchy ticket to test and tempt you
It seems that the mob who what make money from scratchy tickets have released a new one – “Monopoly” based extended play scratchy. Woah I expect that they will make a fortune in unclaimed prizes ;). It has 12 rolls of the dice to get you round the board and see what you do and…
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Australia Post – The cheapest way to post stuff
Well I had the misfortune of thinking that a package 67grams heavier than the maxium allowed by the 500gm sachel. I figured that it would be cheaper to post this package using a little tuff bag and posting it based on weight. A 500g pre paid satchel costs $4.10 A 3kg pre paid satchel costs…
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Likely speed rates for DSL
Theoretical Speed Capabilities Useful page to see what speeds you are likely to be able to achieve with ADSL2 and ADSL2+ based on both distance and line attenuation. M
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April Winchell: Multimedia
April Winchell: Multimedia Some interesting stuff – check out the Paul Anka cover of Smells like teen spirit – its surreal. M
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EBAY: Stuff that sucks about it
You know what really sucks about ebay – the fact that there is no way for you to pay your sellers fee’s using the eBay owned PayPal, how uselessly stupid is that? I’d say about 9 parts useless per 10. Grrr >< M
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Unexpected Outage
Many humble apologies for unexpected outage experienced today. It seems that someone decided that it would be fun to plug as many electrical appliances into the same circuit as my router and server, rendering the whole thing completly uncontactable for about 8 hours (when I valiantly returned power to everything that required after being very…
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Sandisk 1GB miniSD card
Well the miniSD card arrived and is now living in the smartphone :D. This should hopefully make it good for transferring files around and mp3 playing. Now all I need do is move all the internal applications to live on the miniSD rather than the phones “ram/flash” so that it has more ram to run…
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Why SWAT needs monkeys
Dear Captain: I know we have spoken about this before, but I continue to maintain that the Mesa SWAT team needs a monkey. I have chosen to outline my arguments for you so you can fully understand the importance of adding a capuchin to the payroll: Monkeys are disarming. Criminals are often armed. Therefore, monkeys…
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War of the Worlds – A review
Im glad my ticket was free. What a piece of tripe – contrived suspense, stupid situations and way too much barely thinly veiled “yay america we rock” sentiment. Further proof contrary to most people’s opinion Speilberg and Lucas are anything other than useless directors. M