Monthly Archive for June, 2008

Clouds Fetish

Seems I have a bit of a cloud fetish. Every time I get a hold of a camera and there are some really cool clouds about, I get happy snappy crazy!!! Below are a couple of photos that I took yesterday with a friends camera.

Clouds 1Clouds 2
Clouds 3
Railway CrossingDown the Track

Please let me know what you think. Am I a sucky photographer??

Firefox For a World Record

Download Day 2008

Firefox has to be the best web browser that I’ve ever used. It’s so customisable and it’s great. Since the first day I started using it many years ago, I’ve never looked back. I’d have to say that the main thing that got me hooked was the tabbed browsing. It’s so much neater and a heck of a lot better then having the task bar full of website and a million different windows.

Firefox is just about to hit a new stage of it’s life. It’s about to hit the public release of version 3. I’m currently running the latest beta version RC3. I’ve been having a peak at version 3 since Beta 2 and much say that I’m excited to see where things are going with the web browser. The latest version of Firefox is the best yet with over 15,000 improvements over the previous versions.

To help celebrate the launch of Firefox 3, the team are trying to set a new Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours. People can make a pledge to download the new version on June 17th. There will also be a special certificate that you can download on the day.

I’ve signed up, have you? Just click on the red banner above for more information.

RSS is working again

I noticed today that my feed wasn’t being updated in Google Reader, so I decided to investige the problem. It turned out that the wp-rss2.php file was showing an empty feed, though the /feed/ link was fine. I have since changed feedburner to read the /feed/ link, and now it should all be fine.

Anyone else having this problem can see here for more information about this.

New Toy - Wireless N

Netgear WNDR3300

I’ve been having some issues with my DrayTek Vigor2600G lately. Mainly with the wireless part, and I haven’t really been using it for the last month or so. I’ve had my notebook connected via ethernet, but that darn blue cable can get rather annoying. So today I went out and brought the Netgear WNDR3300. It’s a RangeMax Dual Band Wireless-N Router which is pretty sweet, and so far it’s been great. The coverage is awesome, though my Nokia N95 8GB is having some issues finding the wireless network, but for now, I’m not to worried about that.

Later on down the track I’m looking at getting a Netgear WNHDE111 to hook up to my Xbox360 resulting in getting rid of the 15m ethernet cable and my wife Lisa will be a happy woman. :D

Hey look, it’s a post!!!

Yes, this is a blog post. I’m still alive and haven’t fallen of the fact of the Earth. Over the last day or so, I’ve been thinking about how this blog has been going to waste, so I’ve decided, over time, that I’m going to start to implementing some new things here. I’m not sure what, but something. Any ideas, would be great, but so far I’m liking the flow that Ben has.

I have a few sites that I’v signed up with like flickr, twitter, etc, that I don’t really use that much, so I’m planing on starting to use these services more, and possible try to integrate them here.

In other news, I’m now the proud owner of a Nokia N95 8GB. So far this is a great phone, and I’m loving what it can do, especially the inbuilt GPS and Wi-fi.