After having dinner, getting the kids to bed & doing the dishes, I forced myself to go back into the office and finish today’s bookwork before I wrote this post. I did get it finished too, apart from one bill I have to yell at Sensis about. My aim is to have the books up-to-date…
BigPond ADSL – Your ADSL Service Cancellation Notice email
Disturbing email doing the rounds over the long Easter weekend in Australia, pretending to be from BigPond. I’m blogging about this in the hope that you’ll find this entry if you receive that email and Google it first. It’s a scam, and a very clever one. First the details: sender address [email protected] (that’s your first alarm bell-bt.com is…
Help Christchurch from your kitchen – become part of Baked Relief
To my friends in Christchurch, my colleagues, my school mates, I need to tell you about a great concept that will help the people of this great city to recover. In Brisbane’s recent floods, Danielle Crismani realised that homemade food would warm people’s hearts. She didn’t realise that as well as the joy of the…
My thoughts on the Mud Army
The Mud Army was a term being used by the media to descibe the volunteers that helped thousands of Brisbane residents prepare for and recover from the flooding from the Brisbane River (after the Toowoomba flash floods Mon 10 Jan 2011). Like mud, the name just stuck. I had the privilege of being part of…
Logitech Harmony One Review – Logitech Australia Product Tester
Logitech Australia Product Tester – Harmony One Remote (Dec 2010) Logitech Australia reached out to its social media community and asked for volunteers to test some of their products. I was accepted as one of the ‘chosen few’ and here is my completely unbiased report on their product. Enjoy! On arrival, the Harmony One remote…
Issues with security update patch for IE7 WinXP KB2416400?
Our friends at the Kaseya NOC have decided not to rollout out a Microsoft security patch just released for Internet Explorere 7 machines (on Windows XP). They’ve seen some issues once it’s been installed and there are a few blog sites with people reporting problems. Suggest hold off installing this one for a while until…