Category Archives: Geekdom

Epic Dragon Sculpture

I spotted this awesome sculpture in North Laverton on the way to work this morning – (avoiding a heavily congested Princes Freeway) – made out of scrap metal, and used to advertise a scrap metal merchant. If memory serves – (and it often doesn’t) – I do think I have seen these before, but had [...]

Funny Foursquare Moment

Had a bit of a chuckle this evening at this response from Foursquare, while checking into the local McDonald’s for the birthday party of a school friend of our daughter Hannah. If this was my SECOND time checking into this location, why is it the first McDonald’s I’ve checked into, and the first fast food [...]

Holy Levitation Batman!

I was just pointed towards this really cool video about quantum levitation. The possibilities for transportation systems alone are mind boggling. Awesomesauce.

Setting Your iOS5 Device Up For Wireless Sync

So, you’ve managed to update your iDevice to the newly released iOS5 – hopefully you didn’t have the problems that some have had. Now that you’ve done it, how do you setup one of the coolest new features – wireless iTunes synchronisation? You’ll never need to connect up your device to your computer with a [...]

Solar Rocks

Just a quick post for anyone considering getting a solar electricity system for their home. This should bring a smile to your face: A meter running backwards always brings a smile to mine! This was ours this morning, generating almost 1.5kW.

WordPress Frames Hack

For security reasons, by default, in the later versions of WordPress – (not sure which version this started with) – you cannot load a WordPress site within a frameset of another page. This prevents people with malicious intent, from hi-jacking your site inside a frame within their own site, and possibly stealing information from within [...]

Gold Class IPTV

Anyone who has a modern TV capture card in their computer will probably be aware – (depending on software) – that whatever your card is capturing, can be streamed onto the network. Some do it well, some not so well. In the midst of the project I’m working on at the moment, here is the [...]

Google Street View Face Recognition Fail

In the wake of claims from Senator Stephen Conroy a little over a year ago about Google committing the biggest privacy breach in history in the midst of collecting updated data for their StreetView service – (which the Privacy Commissioner later basically dismissed as rubbish) – as a goodwill gesture, Google promised to make sure [...]