Author Archives: Cam

Cool concept mobile device

iF Design iF details view Device UI of the near future? look at this mobile device concept – kind of like a universal remote in steroids! (tags: design mobile usability interface)

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Evolution of dance

YouTube:Evolution of Dance an amusing collection of dance moves over the years… Tim, lets count how many of your moves moves are here…

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Running Scheduled XP Tasks Without A Password

Sometimes it’s handy to have a scheduled task do something in Windows XP. I use a couple for different reasons. One is to do a weekly backup of data from one disk to another, and the other is to do … Continue reading

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Thanks

Thanks to all the wonderful folk at Telstra who wished me such a fond farewell last week when I finished up. It was kind of overwhelming. The many lovely sentiments in the card were really great and really encouraging. Thank-you! … Continue reading

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Serving mediawiki from a subdomain

I just managed to get MediaWiki working from a subdomain, rather than from /wiki. There are two changes that you need to make to localsettings.php when trying to serve MediaWiki from a subdomain. The first is to change $wgScriptPath = … Continue reading

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Is ugly good?

Really interesting article over at SiteReference about how good and profitable ugly websites can be. Have a read of The Surprising Truth About Ugly Websites and see what you think… I found it particularly interesting as Mark Doust touched on … Continue reading

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Back from a weekend of Camping

Just arrived back safely from a long weekend away camping down at Nicholson in Gippsland Victoria. Photos are up in the photo section. We stayed at the Lakes Bushland Caravan Park which is a few kilometres past the town of … Continue reading

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Hard Disk Recovery (or “what a way to spend a weekend”)

Last weekend, I had a hard disk failure on one of my external drives. It was kind of frustrating, but I have recovered data from a failed disk before. Of course, the corruption occurred late at night, and just after … Continue reading

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Heath’s 2nd Birthday

Happy Birthday Heath! Crikey! Two years ago Heath was born! We had a fantastic party for Heath today.

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Cholesterol test results are back

The results of my cholesterol test are in, and they’re not the greatest, but not really unexpected. I mean, I’m dieting for a reason, right? So here they are: Cholesterol 6.3 mmol/L (ideal range 3.5-5.5) Triglycerides 0.9 mmol/L (ideal 0.5-2.0) … Continue reading

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