I’ve been thinking for a while about the best way to provide almost-always connection to the internet for my laptop. There are times I could be more productive if I had an internet connection – such as sitting in a cab, on a train, in someone elses office, and most importantly, when doing a demo … [Read More »]

People often ask me where I buy my computer hardware from. At the moment, I get: – monitors and laptops from IBM – PC components (I build my own PCs) from EYO – PC peripherals (the bits that connect to the PCs like printers and such) from Harris Technology

Sleep time I think… been catching up with posts on the Somersoft Forum since I’ve been pretty busy this last week preparing for my demos/presentations today. Been doing all this forum stuff while lying in bed using my wireless (802.11b) laptop running on battery (great battery life too). Leanne was asleep hours ago after yet … [Read More »]

Unfortunately I have discovered that the large increase in the numbers of users was not a result of a sudden interest in the forum – it was in fact a web crawler. The somersoft.com forum is currently being indexed by the inktomi bots – they are crawling our forum, following every link and indexing every … [Read More »]

The Somersoft Property Investors Forum has been growing, and fairly rapidly. We have been watching the measure of “most users ever online” (at one time), and using this as a measure for the growth in popularity. I came home from my trip to Melbourne this afternoon to find that our previous record of 109 users … [Read More »]