Archive for August, 2006
Bleh
22 August 2006It is now 10:45 in the pm and I have just spent the evening cleaning out every cupboard in our kitchen in preparation for our brand spanking new kitchen which shall be installed tomorrow morning. It’s actually been sitting around the house in pieces since this morning, it’s kind of funny to see a kitchen […]
Firefox Crop Circle
16 August 2006As always when perusing the internet I am convinced that there are too many people out there with way too much time on their hands, a case in point are the twelve students from Oregon State who spent a great deal of time creating the firefox crop circle…
Planned in under two weeks and completed in […]
Trolltech open source phone
16 August 2006I definetly wouldn’t mind having one of these for own to have and to hold.
The Greenphone appears to be a working GSM/GPRS mobile phone endowed with a bootloader amenable to letting users re-flash the phone with modified Linux-based firmware, via a mini-USB port. The phone will not be available standalone, but rather as part of […]
Nokia Bluetooth Phone/Mouse
14 August 2006Ha ha what will people come up with next, this guy took his nokia phone and turned it into an optical mouse by writing code to utilize the on-board camera. Sounds like a great project and seems to be working well for him already.
Cleaning up the desktop
10 August 2006If you are like me and are using firefox you’ll probably have noticed that your desktop has become a bit more cluttered now that all your downloads are being sent there. I’ve recently been cleaning mine up and finding some pretty wallpapers from deviant art to brighten things up a bit. I’ve managed to remove […]
Even more Sydney
9 August 2006I’m feeling like a regular Sydney-sider after yet another weekend down in our nations psuedo-capital. Gill is still down there, as she was on her Birthday poor thing, so I went down on the weekend to keep her company in a strange city. Not that she really needs the help getting about “a strange city” […]