Winter in Tasmania: Freycinet (day 2)

Day 2 of our 5 day trip to Tasmania-

We cancelled the remainder of our stay in the hotel in Hobart. But canceling the hotel also meant we had to book two other …

Winter in Tasmania: Hobart

Last long weekend (we made it a 5 day weekend :), we went down to Tasmania, not sure what to expect exactly. We didn’t have any real plans, only thing we …

IBM WID with nVidia on 64-bit XP

This is a quick post on a problem I had at work.

At work we got brand new machines with 8gigs of memory on Win XP 64-bit. They have nVidia GeForce 8400 GS …

Social paraSites

We already had online virusses and worms, now we got paraSites too.

The word ‘parasite’ comes from the Greek ‘parasitos’ (but then in …

Querying the next Sydney ferry

Have been playing with Yahoo!’s YQL this weekend, querying the Sydney Ferries website. Pretty amazing what it allows you to do, though the Sydney Ferries …

A Twitter social support system

Just the other week I experienced two occurrences where Twitter was used by business for product support, which I’d like to share, for those who still …

The new browser war on a tv set near you

Just watched this cool bullet-time-like movie (you know, the Matrix) on the Philips site as a demo for their 21:9 cinemascope tv set due out this month. Great …

What happened to the design? CSS Naked Day April 9

Yes, it’s international CSS Naked Day today! That’s why everything looks a bit black and white (and blue).

You wonder why? CSS Naked Day is about …

Reputation as a Service

I don’t remember who it was they were quoting yesterday morning at Sun’s Let’s Talk breakfast presentation on Cloud computing, but Facebook …