And here I was thinking that Genes were relatively fixed from the moment of conception, it seems that the lifestyles of our parents and even the way we live our lives can play a big part in how our bodies develop and the types of genes we pass to our offspring.
Spooky!
M
Google have released the latest in productivity destruction – Google Mars. Millions of businesses worldwide will cry out in pain as T1/E1’s light up in bandwidth chewing goodness that does what Google Earth does to imagry of our planet to mars!
Sweet! 😀
It also makes an interesting assertation that presently Java is actually not that bad, when compared to other programming languages.
M
Can’t download that video? Now you can.
An interesting digg article that links to several sites and methods of grabbing that streaming video you just watched.
M
Australia ? So Where The Bloody Hell Are You?
Bugga me if this ad has not caused as much trouble as any I have seen, all over the little word bloody. If you want to see the ad click the link above, i think its rather entertaining and will get the type of tourist down here who understands or will get us simple folk!
Bugga it! Get your bloody arse down here slackers, you’re due to get the next round already 😉
I have a company to add to the list. Twodollar.com.au after following their removal instructions and recieveing a you have been successfully removed email I have continued to recieve their promotional material via email. Therefore this company (www.twodollar.com.au) has been added to my personal list of companies who spam you because their removal system does not take effect.
Boycott twodollar.com.au !
M
Now I am no stranger to large screens, one of my mates uses an LCD projector to set up a car simulator game, but I dont think he has near the pixel pushing power shown here. Its almost too big to use individually.
M
ldopa.net ? archive ? how to install front row 1.2.1 and not destroy your mac
How to get front row working without causing your machine to malfunction and bypass the unnecessary and artificial restricions imposed by apple on this product.
kill -HUP $pid sends a SIGHUP to the process with the process id $pid.
This is useful for telling programs that listen for a HUP to re-read their configuration files so that you can seamlessly implement changes transparent to end users. Not all programs will re-read their config files when they recieve a SIGHUP .
You can? also tell a program to ignore a SIGHUP, this can be useful if you want to start a background job from a terminal and close that terminal window (ie: wget, or a daemon/server process that you are debugging) as terminals will send a SIGHUP when you close them.
On the 25th of February I got the keys 
to a new VW Golf 2.0 Turbo Diesel. I must really thank several people for helping making this all happen! Noel Wright from Stratton Finance for sorting out everything with finance and his tireless efforts and MASSIVE patience to help make this all happen. I must also thank Sam Stratten from McCarrolls Volkswagen for finding me a 2.0TDI with the spec I wanted that was available on such short notice. Without the help of these two people I would not have got my backside 
into a Golf as quickly as I did post Audi S3 (Note: 15 March 2014 – removing links to now defunct albums page).
I must admit that after having this car for a little more than a week I am enjoying it immensly, and it seems to put its best face forward all the time 
. The chassis dynamics are worlds above the (Note: 15 March 2014 – removing links to now defunct albums page) that I formerly owned, the 2.0 TDI is reflex silver 
and has dead cow (leather) seats 
which are heated. The seats are firm which I find makes for a better long distance drive than soft seats and are heated which has two benefits – nice and warm on cold mornings and on long journeys help ease back discomfort.
It has found a friend in the carpark at work (MkIV Black Golf ) and I have had very few quibbles with it. The only one worth mentioning is that the rear right passenger door seems to 
have fit and finish about as well as a commodoore and I am not sure if if it is worth going back to the dealer over 
when compared to the left – I’ll have to ask some other people when they see it in the flesh who have a more objective view of it all.
Driving a diesel is very different to a petrol car and it seems to use bugga all fuel regardless of foot positioning. The take off from the lights is excellent, but rolling accelleration and going up hills is where this car shines, it is all just effortless for it. The last fillup I was able to do 200km running about in Canberra followed by a trip to Sydney and back before the feed me light popped on at the trip distance of 814km, I ended up putting very slowly 51-53L in (right to the brim – dodgy high flow pump) at around 840km.