You’d have to be under a rock for the past 6 years to not know of the great successes of the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity. Initially only designed for…
I spent a good part of my life being tagged with either one of the terms you see in the title above this post. For a long time I took…
After working with enterprise level gear for a while you start to miss certain things when you’re working on your own kit at home. One of the biggest things for…
Conjure up in your mind a picture of the humble nail cutter (or if you have one handy grab it!). Not only is this device a marvel of modern technology…
Just over a year ago today I started this blog as a part of a larger body of work to combat the lunacy that is the Internet filter. I thought…
If you’ve spent any amount of time in those team building workshops you’ve probably already heard the saying “The camel was the horse designed by committee“. This is even more…
I’m not what you’d call a big grassroots political kind of person. Really the only thing I was ever actively involved in was the Internet Filter malarkey (which in fact…
If there’s one thing I’m a sucker for it’s a good light show. When I used to live out in the country I had an absolutely fantastic view of the…
No matter where you go on the web you’re almost guaranteed to run into a Flash object or two. Primarily this is because Flash has the awesome ability of being…
I love virtualization, really I do. Ever since my first encounter with it back in university when I didn’t have the spare cash to build another PC to run Linux…