December 31, 2019 Happy holidays 2019 All the best for the holiday season and I hope 2020 is a good one. Of course, this season has been a difficult one…
January 31, 2019 Smooth path to Gutenberg My upgrade to WordPress 5 completed without a hitch and I’m now familiarising myself with the new Gutenberg editor. So far, so good. I’ve…
December 30, 2018 Happy Holidays 2018 All the best for the holiday season as we head into 2019. May your New Year be a prosperous one, with more sagacity and…
December 31, 2017 All the best for 2018 As another year comes to a close I hope you are having a good holiday season. The past few weeks have been quite hectic…
May 29, 2017 Soup sale: When is a no-brainer a no-brainer? I came across this interesting soup sale in a CBD cafe. A small soup costs $7 and a large – which looks at least…
February 28, 2017 LibreOffice Word Completion bug One of the great features of LibreOffice Writer is word completion in AutoCorrect. As you use Writer every word longer than a specified size…
December 30, 2016 Best birthday present Also happened to be on my 40th. Just in time for the summer heat.
August 31, 2016 Hail Caesar salad! I must commend the SO for creating what must be the best Caesar salad in history. I don’t often order it when eating out…
July 31, 2016 New house, new beginning We finally moved into our new house we have been building for the past 18 months. As you can imagine it was a bit…
December 31, 2014 All the best for 2015 As 2014 draws to a close I’d like to wish everyone all the best for 2015. Any plans for 2015? I, like most people,…
December 31, 2013 2013 is over, best wishes for 2014 With 2013 behind us all the best for 2014. I hope 2014 is a good one for you. I’ve seen so many 2013 year…
December 30, 2012 Happy holidays All the best for the holiday season and I hope you have a happy New Year. I’ve taken some time off to be with…
September 30, 2012 Go Swannies! I’m not much of an AFL fan, but hey, is there any team a Sydneysider can get excited about but the Swans when they…
June 30, 2012 Control your data with OwnCloud In this age of Cloud Computing there is a massive amount of personal data being harvested and managed by Cloud vendors which have a…
March 31, 2012 Earth Hour and Daylight Saving: It’s all a cron Tonight it’s Earth Hour for one hour and tomorrow morning Daylight Saving ends so we will all use an extra hour of power. Seriously,…
December 29, 2011 All the best for 2012 As 2011 comes to a close I’d like to offer everyone a big best wishes for the holiday season and 2012. Throughout the next…
August 30, 2011 Time for a change After more than 11 years as a technology journalist with IDG Communications I began a new role as a senior analyst with Telsyte this…
January 31, 2011 Another January I love January, so I’m sad to see this one pass by for another year. It’s the time of holidays, Linux.conf.au – which unfortunately…
November 28, 2010 Distro hunting again Having used everything under the Sun at one stage, this summer I’ll probably migrate my two main systems from Kubuntu and OpenSUSE to another…
May 20, 2010 Regressions, regressions So I “upgrade” to Kubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx and in addition to my plasma panel getting nuked my notebook no longer suspended to RAM….