I don’t know exactly when they released this, but the Commonwealth bank have just gone mobile with both a mobile and an iPhone app. I’ve just had a poke around the site on my nokia 6120 and it’s excellent. Does everything I need smoothly and easily – they deserve a big thumbs up. If there [...]
It’s evening now, but I’m still slightly stunned by the lunch I ate today. We received an impromptu invitation to a first brithday ‘celebration’ lunch for Shanghai Ling’s new premises – it was a set menu, but we were told not to expect anything we’d seen on the menu before. Sure enough, there was a [...]
February 28, 2009 – 4:51 pm
‘scuse the awful pun, but the other day, I was alerted (by treadly) to the fact that Aldi had an upcoming sale which included some cycling gear. I am a keen commuter cyclist – that is, I cycle to work – on the weekends, I do occasionally do a bit of urban cruising, but I [...]
February 11, 2009 – 8:56 pm
It has been a tragic week in Victoria. Tears well up and my throat tightens when I listen to, or read of the trauma that people have been through. It’s heartening to see so many people pull together in times of greatest need. If you haven’t already – do get over to the Red Cross [...]
January 28, 2009 – 7:43 pm
All of south eastern Australia is bracing for another day of 40°+, it’s not uncommon to have one or two days in a row, but four!?! I always remember the hot weather never started until school went back, but this is a bit over the top! Thankfully, just two years back we installed air conditioning [...]
January 24, 2009 – 12:42 pm
Every January when the Australian Open Tennis is on, I fondly remember back to 1992 when I was lucky enough to be handed a Press Pass and a Nikon F2 camera fitted with a new Kodak DCS-1 back. The camera, in turn, was connected to a ‘luggable’ hard disk with (B+W CRT!) preview function that [...]
January 21, 2009 – 7:20 pm
Cats at our house have a good time of it. This little scrap – about 8 weeks old – came home from the Lort Smith animal hospital last Monday to join our little family. They say cats always land on their feet… she definitely has. Viv, the incumbent, has been like a saint. He doesn’t [...]
December 23, 2008 – 8:40 am
Three flat tyres in the last month! You start to curse people who leave broken glass on the road. Since I started spending a bit more on my tyres, the problem has almost vanished – in fact, apart from the most recent three, I think I’ve only had two others in the past year, so [...]
December 12, 2008 – 9:16 am
My advice to anyone considering a new printer. Choose a Canon, or an HP, or a Fuji Xerox – anything except a Lexmark! About 12 months ago, I bought a new colour laser printer, a Lexmark C500n, having had a gutfull of expensive inkjets with drivers that don’t get updated. I wanted to get a [...]
December 10, 2008 – 9:12 am
It’s quite natural to find stories/jokes/etc. about your own profession amusing. Those engaged in law enforcement all have their favourite cop show. Teachers just love Teachers and the priceless Gormsby. I got plenty of laughs out The IT Crowd. In true IT fashion though, my favourite piece of work that really tells my life like [...]
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