Category: Technology

09 Nov

Random thought

A random thought for the day… Too few people realise that the ICT industry has revenues of nearly $70 billion. Our employment is larger than banking and finance, larger than television, media and communications, larger than mining, and larger than wool, wheat and sugar combined. We are a significant contributor to the social and economic wellbeing […]
21 Oct

Multi safari

Being a web developer, I always struggle with the arduous task of testing websites in different browsers. I’d already had a way to test multiple versions of Internet Explorer but now there’s a solution to check multiple versions of Safari. The challenge with Safari is that Safari normally uses the Web Kit framework found inside Mac […]
05 Sep

iMac ahoy!

Yes, that’s right, my shiny new iMac has arrived. It was taking it’s sweet time getting here and after the initial backlog of orders, it’s finally made it to my desk. That’s not to say it wasn’t hard work getting it here. You see if my brother had been awake when TNT tried to deliver […]
18 Jul

Australia Maps v14

Among my busy first week back from holidays, I’ve managed to find a little time to update my TomTom maps. It turns out that while I was away Dean managed to obtain a copy of the latest Australian maps (v14). It’s always handy to keep the maps as up-to-date as possible because it means you […]
04 May

Car cam

Today, for something completely different I attached my iSight to my car and recorded my trip to work. It’s amazing what you can do when you don’t have to go to work during the day. I’ve sped it up because obviously you don’t want to sit around for half an hour! The traffic was pretty […]
17 Feb

Sunny Bright

It’s my one weekend off (no Saturday sport or Rehearsals) so I took the opportunity to head up to Bright. To my surprise, the weather up here is actually cooler than Melbourne by about six degrees or so. It’s usually hotter this time of year but I’m not complaining! Bright is such a great town […]