Category Archives: Brainfart

Sad to use this blog to gripe about traffic – but what is it that people don’t get about hook turns? Every day I ride my motorcycle to work in the city and each day I have to do at … Continue reading →

I wouldn’t normally post Dilbert cartoons, but I reckon after a few years of fairly samey cartoons in the last while he’s drawn some real gems. I read the unauthorized dilbert feed at http://www.tapestrycomics.com/. Thanks guys.

So I’ve finally jumped on the del.icio.us bandwagon along with all the other idiot boys. I’m tagging mainly software tools and articles at the moment. Tools and open source projects I’m being quite careful to tag accurately, I’m interested in … Continue reading →

Now this is a great blonde joke. I better not tell my blonde wife :-S

3M sortable post-its “They stick to vertical surfaces, not each other, so they’re just as easy to organize in your hand as they are to display.” Cool.

Hmm. Yeah. See I’ve had a ‘weblog’ before. Didn’t write much. But ALL the cool kids have one, so I feel compelled to start one up again. Shame I lost all that crud I wrote between 2 and 4 years … Continue reading →

It’s been mad the last few days – a three week one-man (me) initial iteration is coming to a close. Unfortunately a demo to the key stakeholder was organised about a week early, so have been wading through comments like … Continue reading →

We were visiting an old work colleague today for lunch, and he pulled out his latest toy – a wi-fi card for his Zaurus. This was my first practical introduction to both wi-fi and the zaurus and I was well … Continue reading →

I’m starting to get real excited about the direction mobile devices are heading. Russel showed the new Nokia 3650: It’s got EVERYTHING. Symbian is a full-fledged modern OS, so it supports just about any spec and protocol you can think … Continue reading →

“A new version of MSN Messenger is available” Would I like to upgrade? Why not? Only because every other time MS has released a new version of messenger the damn thing has been more and more unstable. Aaargh. It’s ugly … Continue reading →