Category: Ramblings

I’ve just completed my first flight on with Japan Airlines economy and I have to say I’m pleasantly surprised. There were more facemasks then usual on this flight due to the ever-present threat of the current virus sweeping the globe, the coronavirus. I had a trip planned to the US late last year and I […]

As a long-time Apple user, I’ll usually try their products at some point. I’ve been using Apple music for a couple of months now and I have to say, it’s kind of terrible. There are so many things wrong with this service that I find myself going back to my old archive of music sitting […]

I spend a lot of time on the Internet, its part of my job. I look after servers, write software and do all kinds of ‘Internet things’ for work, play and just plain curiosity. Today a good friend of mine linked me to this piece written by Peter Welch called Programming Sucks. For anyone that’s in […]

I use Wordpress as my CMS of choice for all my client sites for a number of reasons. This includes the theming capabilities and extensibility though plugins. Sometimes when building a client site I will use a commercial theme as a basis and one place I get my themes from is WooThemes. They offer some nice […]

You may have noticed that my site has been showing nothing but a static page with a message ‘I’ll Be Back Soon, Something Broke‘. What actually happened is that my site was script hacked. I had foolishly left an old piece of software sitting on my personal domain and that was their point of entry. […]

So I’ve had this blog sitting behind a splash page for almost a year now and I hadn’t launched it cause it wasn’t ‘finished.‘ I’ve been reading a lot about focus and getting things done and I’ve decided to get it up now and start writing so that I’m in the habit again. This site […]

I read an article about 4 months ago how Microsoft and FOXTEL were partnering up so that you could stream FOXTEL via the xbox360. Seeing as my ISP iiNet has launched an IPTV service that didn’t require a contract I started to research it a bit more, there are a lot of shows I watch […]

After close to six weeks of hick up’s and problems with my new Macbook Pro the Apple store at Chermside has given me a new unit. So today I get to spend the next umpteen hours setting everything up again. I’m not going to use Apple’s Migration Assistant but instead use a sync tool to […]

Hello Mr Blog, I remember you. I know I’ve neglected you for months since I set you up but its now time for me to try and give you a little more attention. I have been kind of busy lately with starting my own company and working on new things for the cafe, but after […]

So I’ve been patiently waiting the arrival of my new iPhone 4 from Vodafone Australia after ordering it the day of the launch. Everyone I know that ordered on the same day or later have already received their phones. I thought I’ll call Vodafone and get a tracking number so I could find where and […]