Aug 30
It is with great pleasure that I announce two new websites for your blog, beer and building pleasure.
These two sites will be tracking the progress of the Fermentinator project.
Feb 23
The concept of the ‘Smart House’ is nothing new, and the reality for some years now has been that if you throw enough at an electrician, he will install some flavour of a domesticated commercial system.
For somewhere north of $5,000 you have been able to get a new house wired and installed with a Clipsal C-Bus system, but dont expect it to do very much except have very funky looking switched with LED’s on them and diide the house into a few zones that you can control the lights from other areas.
But is this enough for today?
Nov 17
Are you the kind of ‘early adopter’ that loves to have non-consumer grade kit in your house?
Do you have PC based devices in your house to perform chores that embedded devices usually do?
If you answered ‘yes’ to either of the questions above then you understand the pain that is in my household currently.
In a revious post I postulated the woes of losing a raid 5 array and the heartache that goes along with the sick to the stomach feeling that you have lost years worth of accumaleted entertainment data.
It has been two weeks now, and I am pretty much no closer to having my 4 hoe systems back together again.
Oct 30
Is it just me or does no-one really get it still in regards to what High Definition realy is?
OK, so maybe it is just me, but I could have swarn that there is a load of TV’s being advertised out there as HD that are not in fact, you know, HD.
I think that this all stems from the US market and their use of NTSC ( or Never The Same Colour ) as we used to call it in video production 
Oct 25
There is a new site promotion tool that I am going to give a go, called Web Traffic Juggernaut.
Here is some info.
Web Traffic Juggernaut video
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Web Traffic Juggernaut is a new site that says it guarantees more web visitors and online advertising with very little effort or cost. So I decided to put it to the test…
Oct 22
So the Australian Federal Government is *still* going at it to implement a country-wide, compulsory, ISP level, Internet filtering solution. This is incredulous for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that it plainly just doesnt work, another that the majority of Australians just dont want it.
The big problem is that not enough people are interested enough to make enough noise about it.
Sep 25
Two Oh Man’s for this week.
1. They busted the LHC ! WTF were you doing Brian?
No, seriously, they LHC had an electrical failure in one section where some electrical do-hickey burnt out and needs to be repaired. Trouble is that it is one of the superconducting electro-magents and they are cooled to nearly absolute zero, meaning that a whole section of the LHC will have to be emptied of the tonnes of gas that is used to keep it cool and get it all warmed up so that technicians can go inside to fix the issue. Read the rest of this entry »
