June 27, 2025 Finding my family tree and roots the old-fashioned way In an age where people willfully submit their own DNA to oppressive state regimes and selfish capitalist firms to learn about their family history,…
June 18, 2025 From Skype to Signal With the unfortunate demise of Skype, it’s hard to go past the Signal messaging app. Having used both apps for years it’s a shame…
September 11, 2021 How to fix the 2021 NSW COVID-19 crisis. And why it won’t happen Fed up with the daily dose of absurdity emanating from the NSW authorities (evidently, so is the Premier), I decided to write a plan…
August 31, 2020 As the game of Whac-A-Mole continues, time will tell if we need stronger countermeasures Okay, so it’s been exactly one month since my call to #lockdownNSWnow. Let’s go over what’s changed, what risks remain and the missed opportunity….
August 11, 2020 Great minds think alike #lockdownNSWnow Then again fools rarely differ. It’s good to know you’re not alone in this world, and when a professor shares your sentiment your day…
July 31, 2020 A stitch in time: what if NSW was locked down NOW? And what if Australia wasn’t run by duck heads who care more about stimulus packages than problem solving? Note the date of this post…
June 15, 2020 New Android email client: FairEmail I found https://email.faircode.eu/ while searching for an alternative to the stalwart K9 Mail on the F-Droid store. My first impressions are very favorable. It’s…
May 21, 2020 KDE Connect call notifications hang around KDE Connect is awesome! One of the most useful features is a functional replacement to “click to call” on Web sites. With KDE Connect,…
January 17, 2020 Thunderbird’s profile manager If you experience the Thunderbird or packaging bug where after an update your mail account no longer appears, you should be able to recover…
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…
September 3, 2019 Thunderbirds are gone Warning to all you Thunderbird lovers out there. Upon upgrading to the latest major release (68.0) all my email accounts were summarily trashed. Sure,…
June 10, 2019 Well done brilliant Barty As a former budding tennis player it’s always great to see an Aussie win a grand slam tournament. Ash Barty nailed the 2019 French…
March 31, 2019 App-aling pricing A family member recently downloaded the Drum Pad Machine Pro app from the Apple App Store with a price tag of around $11 per…
February 28, 2019 Standards-based VPN service? I’m wondering if there is a standards-based, open source friendly VPN service out there. While I’m not paranoid it would be good to have…
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…
November 25, 2018 More usability options Nate is now approaching one year of usability & productivity. Awesome stuff! A couple of things I noticed recently relate to notifications. Discover, the…
October 29, 2018 Nasty Nouveau problem I had a problem with X.org using way too much shared memory with the Nouveau driver. The shared…
September 30, 2018 Secure boot just for boot ordering It turns out you need to enable secure boot to be able to adjust the boot order of the machine. Then you can disable…
August 31, 2018 Is secure boot becoming mandatory? The gift that keeps on… is now making it difficult for me to install Linux on it. Back in the good old days you…
