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January 20, 2015
Amazon and wind farms
My thanks to the Passive Guy for this article in his daily news roundup. In essence the article talks about the announcement that Amazon Web Services will jointly build a massive wind farm in Indiana to power its online data centres. Just another example of how different the Amazon corporate ethos truly is. Go Bezos! […]
January 17, 2015
A great new feature on Candy’s Monsters
Okay, I know I’m biased as my books feature on Candy’s new ‘Other Authors’ feature, but I honestly think it’s a great idea, implemented really well. And that ‘implemented really well’ part is super important because any feature that doesn’t work as advertised simply turns visitors off. Those of you who have seen Candy’s website […]
January 14, 2015
OMG – have you seen the Google ARA?
I have never been a huge fan of smart phones, but this …this excites the hell out of me! It’s quite a long video clip so I’ll give you a very quick summary of what it’s about. Basically, this is the first launch of a new technology that makes the smartphones of the future completely […]
January 13, 2015
Alan Turing and The Imitation Game
Sometimes things happen in clusters. Or perhaps it just feels that way because, having been alerted to the first ‘something’, we then notice similar somethings all over the place… Okay, apologies for that rather metaphysical beginning, but I am seeing a rather interesting cluster at the moment, and it all began with the movie The […]
January 12, 2015
A changing of the guard amongst my posts
It’s 9.43am on January 13th, 2015, and for the first time in almost two years, the top post on my blog is not ‘How to use the USB cable to transfer photos from the Samsung Galaxy SII….’ [etc]. And I’m rapt! That particular post has brought a grand total of 63,882 visitors to my blog, […]
January 9, 2015
The Body Market – by D.V. Berkom
Fellow writer D.V. Berkom has just published her latest novel in the Leine Basso series, and I’ve just bought it. :) The book is called The Body Market and it’s available from most normal venues, however I know it’s available on Amazon for $0.99. Bargain anyone? lol Leine Basso is a kick-ar$se female protagonist that […]
January 2, 2015
Warrandyte swelters… and we all hold our breaths
Temperatures of 41 C [105.8 F] are forecast for today, with strong northwesterly winds pushing south before a cool change tonight. What does all that mean for us? Very, very high fire danger, that’s what. As always, it’s the northerly wind that turns an unpleasant day into a dangerous one. Add a dry summer to […]
December 31, 2014
Kathryn Chastain Treat – died, 21st December, 2014
Kathryn has been a blogging friend for some time, and she was the person who helped promote a bunch of us on Twitter. She was generous to a fault, and I can’t believe she’s gone. Caught up in my own life I did not even know until just now. Thank you Kathryn. You were strong, […]
December 30, 2014
App woes – EmergencyAus
About six months ago, I installed an app on my phone called EmergencyAus. It’s supposed to provide an up-to-date list of every event, of any sort, that happens in Victoria. More importantly, the app also allows me to set a 5 km watch zone around my house. In theory, if anything happens within that watch […]
December 29, 2014
2014 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 55,000 times in 2014. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 20 sold-out performances for that many […]
