Category Archives: Geekdom

Windows 8 Committing Suicide?

I had a small chuckle to myself the other day, when Windows 8 threw this status message at me: Note that the title of the application it is complaining about is “Microsoft Windows” and it is asking if it should just end it all! Euthanasia or suicide? You be the judge.

Happy Birthday Alan Turing

Today is the 100th birthday of Alan Turing, widely regarded as the father of mechanical and electronic computing. He was a genius mathematician and cryptographer, and helped win World War II by breaking the German Enigma encoding machines. Despite his wartime efforts, he was persecuted for being homosexual, and most believe that the mental anguish [...]

Chrome ‘Weak Signature Algorithm’ Solved

For people who have – (or have automatically had) – their Google Chrome installation upgraded to version 18 or later, you may have noticed the following error message on some sites you are accessing over SSL/HTTPS: This has been mostly the case for people – (developers in particular) – accessing sites with self-signed certificates, like [...]

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.