Nokia: Let’s do the time warp again

by grogers on May 31, 2010

One of these three is not like the others

All three of these phones are in Perth, Western Australia, are on the Telstra network and are set to automatically update their time from the network. The brand-new Nokia E52 in the middle is an hour ahead. How do you fix it?
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Old… but not broken

by grogers on May 17, 2010

I’ve just rebuilt one of my home servers. The old one had one of these Arnet Multiport ISA serial cards in it for my packet radio modems. Full-length ISA, full-sized UART chips, shared IRQ serial ports, DIP switches… In other words, all the things that make me glad personal computing moved on past the 1990s.

This card was originally installed in a Pick-based Library automation system in 1993.. Now this is the amazing thing – this card has been operating continuously for 17 years. Realising that made me sit and think. How much technology we use today will be still operable two decades from now? Any of it?

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Spelling fail

May 4, 2010

I think these signwriters might need new spell checkers. Warrenty? Ballons?

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Special offer! (Everyone but you)

April 7, 2010

I’ve always been impressed with Amazon. They can find and post me almost any book ever published half-way across the world for a reasonable price within a few weeks. I’ve bought heaps of books from them and their service has always been excellent. As happy as I am, Amazon have one annoying flaw. It’s their [...]

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The wrong Good News

April 2, 2010

In Western Australia, most bars can’t trade on Good Friday: This sign has it wrong, though. That isn’t the Good News. The Good News of Easter is that Jesus Christ rose from the dead!

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Skewing the results of a survey before the results even arrive

March 28, 2010

The Perthnow/Sunday Times website is promoting “WA’s biggest law and order survey”. Questions on police, justice, road laws, bikie gangs and that sort of thing. Perhaps you’re even willing to ignore the unanswerable question 31, “Do you view bikie gangs as social clubs or as conduits for organised crime? (tick one box) Yes No Don’t [...]

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Setting up a Bigpond NextG wireless connection on Linux – Part 1

January 28, 2010

Recently, Telstra Bigpond have changed the pricing on their NextG broadband that makes it (gasp!) actually competitive if you have your mobile and home phone already with them. So, interested in having a postpaid wireless broadband/redundant Internet link for an all-up price of a couple of takeaway coffees a month, I go ahead and sign [...]

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Welcome to the 21st Century…

January 25, 2010

It’s only taken 15 years or so, but I’m finally using a Content Management System for my home page. Hand-coded HTML is so 90s! Oh, and the picture pane is random… refresh for a new view

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Whoa. Abandoned blog!

October 1, 2009

It’s time I started updating my blog more. So… I will

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Note to self: Go to the dentist more often!

August 30, 2007

Ouch! Have come back from the dentist today (I’ll spare you the gory details, but boy I hate needles!!), minus one tooth, several hundred dollars and with a cheerful appointment to have more poking, prodding, drilling done to me next week. Joy. Sucker for punishment I reckon!

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