April 28, 2010 5 years of blogging This week I chalked up five years of continuous personal blogging. No big deal. From memory I started blogging just as the hype factor…
April 6, 2010 Optus Music Store – an open option I’ve often wondered if there was a music store out there that fulfilled my (not unreasonable) needs. A few years ago I tried eMusic…
March 22, 2010 Alice in Wonderland in 3D After reading its mixed reviews, we decided to go and see Alice in Wonderland in 3D. I won’t spoil it for you, but if…
February 17, 2010 Random desktop crashes stretch sanity My desktop decided to spontaneously restart again today in a repeat of what happened a few weeks ago. The short-term memory replacement (Twitter) tracked…
February 3, 2010 February 3 I was on my way to a press event in the city today. Nothing unusual about that. In a busy week I can attend…
January 31, 2010 Android in da house My SO picked up an Android-based mobile yesterday and I am soooo jealous. It’s the HTC Magic that was launched in May last year….
January 20, 2010 Ovi app store I finally got around to setting up my Nokia N95 8G for the Ovi Store. You need to download the Ovi Store app which…
December 23, 2009 Happy holidays I’ve had quite a busy start to this year’s holiday season. Lots of shopping, driving people around, and time to brush up on my…
November 27, 2009 You know it’s Christmas when… there is a giant Christmas tree in the lobby of your work building in the first week of November. Okay, this post is not…
October 30, 2009 Red Hat vs Microsoft share price story I must thank Telford for bugging me twice about the fact that Red Hat’s share price had surpassed Microsoft’s (organically). The article received a…
September 30, 2009 WordPress and social media integration options? I’m now looking for a way to “cross post” blogs to Twitter and Facebook if so desired. I’m thinking a WordPress plug-in that will…
August 24, 2009 The Maiden Voyage by Geoffrey Marcus When I picked up The Maiden Voyage in a small second hand book store I didn’t think much of the content. To my surprise,…
August 5, 2009 Finally on Facebook My recent social networking splurge has led me to join Facebook. I like the idea of social networking portals. The concept really brings the…
July 8, 2009 Ice Age 3 in 3D We went to see Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs in 3D over the weekend. That’s right, we donned the Dick Smith-ish 3D…
June 15, 2009 A spare battery comes in handy When I purchased a Lenovo 3000 V100 notebook a couple of years ago I had the foresight to throw in a second battery. I’m…
May 25, 2009 I’ve been sucked into Twitter Due to the requirement to manage TechWorld’s Twitter feed I signed up to Twitter today. My feed is @rodneygedda. Tweet away, and away, and…
April 28, 2009 ANZAC Day 2009 We went to the ANZAC Day service in Gosford over the weekend. It was good to see so many young people turn out for…
March 19, 2009 Kogan’s Linux-powered netbook: Aus owned or made up? Yesterday I reported on Kogan’s Linux netbook which is set to begin selling to local buyers next month. This isn’t Earth shattering (no pun…
February 15, 2009 LCA ’09 wrap up Congrats to Ben Powell and all the organisers of this year’s LCA in Hobart, you did a fantastic job. The build-up to the conference…
January 17, 2009 Marching south My first week back at work was quite hectic. E-mails, work and more e-mails. Now I’m pleased to say I’ll be marching south for…