One of the difficulties with getting a new PC is deciding whether to go with the new PC’s flow, or to try to keep your old style. The change is a good way of forcing a bit of housekeeping, springcleaning and archiving - which is why it takes so long.
The journey has been:
Run all [...]
Inevitability one is forced into a PC upgrade at some point. This is always a painful time consuming process, not the least of which is getting the new PC to integrate into the existing home office network - a mixture of desktop’s and laptop, XP pro and XP home. Luckily we had standardised [...]
An upgrade of a wordpress site’s Database from Mysql 4 to Mysql 5 gave some surprising results - some strange characters floating around - those funny question marks. I had already successfully converted (I thought) some other sites. When I thought about what was different, I realised most of this [...]
Alcatel have a HUGE map showing the various undersea fibre optic cable connections between Australia and the rest of the world:
JASURAUS: Port Hedland (north west coast) to Jakarta
SEA-ME-WE3: Perth (west coast) to Jakarta
APNG: Papua New Guinea to Cairns (north east coast)
Bass Strait 1 and 2: Australian Mainland to Tasmania
Tasman 2: [...]
There seems to be a bit of excitement about netvibes, and it does look like a potentially useful start page. I started setting up (still need to figure out how to get my newsgator subscriptions across) and clicked on the pop3 option and stopped. Tell an external website my pop3 details [...]