I’m still alive – mostly. Last couple of weeks have been pretty horrendous. Trip to NZ 3 weeks back to present at some seminars for work, not terribly taxing (although I never sleep well the first couple of nights in NZ because of the 2 hour time difference), but I didn’t get much of anything … [Read More »]

Bought a portable airconditioner last week for the study – it gets really hot in here on sunny days. After quite a bit of research, I settled on the Delonghi PAC60ECO. Ironically, just like my Axe in the Chook Shed incident with the ADSL router, I seem to have successfully scared the warm weather away … [Read More »]

Bought myself a Lacrosse Technology WS9211 Weather Monitor. It’s a temperature / humidity monitor with remote sensors that can be placed outdoors, which communicate the temperature and humidity readings back to the base station via wireless links. I have the base unit set up in the study – it also has a clock and calendar … [Read More »]

vBulletin v3.5.0 forum software went “Gold” today – finally out of testing and considered ready for production. This is good and bad. Good because there are some great new features in v3.5 Bad because I’m going to have to put aside a few days to upgrade all my forums – especially the ones that have … [Read More »]

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