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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 […]
December 27, 2014
Christmas postmortem
Now that Christmas 2014 has come and gone, I can safely say I’m glad it’s over. I tried to eat normal amounts, truly I did, but I doubt anyone will be surprised when I say I failed. It started with Christmas Eve dinner. We spent it with relatives, and seeing them all was lovely, but […]
December 23, 2014
Happy Holidays!
It’s Wednesday, December 24th here Downunder, and that means Christmas Eve has arrived, sort of. Now if you are of Anglo heritage, Christmas Eve probably doesn’t mean much to you. To those of us from a European heritage, however, Christmas Eve is Christmas! I remember when I was a kid, I’d get all my presents […]
