Ingrid writes and interesting post over at The 80s Club – 80s Cliques and talks about the various groups of teenagers typically found in an 80s American High School. While some of them are quite US centric, there are some similarities that we had here in Australia too. One issue I take is with the … [Read More »]

You know that satisfying feeling when you get the washing in off the line 2 minutes before a thunderstorm starts ? Yay. Also closely related to that moment of panic that you feel when you hear thunder and realise there is still clothes on the line !

VMware have just announced a free version of their VMware server product line called … VMware Server! I use the VMware Workstation product extensively for my work, and their other products, VMware GSX Server and ESX Server have looked nice, but have simply been too expensive for non-enterprise use. Now, with a free version of … [Read More »]

Mozilla have released a maintenance update to Firefox – v1.5.0.1 Read the Firefox v1.5.0.1 Release Notes for more details. Most people should have the new release automatically downloaded and installed – unless you deselect the option to have updates deployed automatically.

I use NotesBuddy as my IBM Sametime instant messaging client for work. I find it much more flexible and useful than the default Sametime connect client (although upcoming versions of that might make me change my mind about that!). It’s also nice to have a lightweight mail client rather than running the full Notes client … [Read More »]