Will’s Blog

Only just noticed that there was a blog by a guy by the name of Andrew Haigh who went for a trip to India to follow the Australian Cricket Team’s tour of India. So, go check out the blog if you’re a Cricket fan! If you’re not, then ignore this post. And if you just [...]

As I posted on secretgeek.net (in the comments): Just got this exact email this morning in my inbox. So, I decided I should check out the source code to see if it did contain what you mentioned (about the additional words that were inserted). And yep, they were there, and they seemed as random as [...]

Wow! Now this is impressive! [Found via once again, BoingBoing] No, seriously, it is impressive what they did. Basically all you need to do is write some XML markup, and the server marks it up and churns out flash movie files. So, what am I talking about here? I’m talking about Laszlo. What is it? [...]

As reported in today’s Australian IT, Telstra is set to launch it’s i-mode services on November 1, 2004. They have lined up, according to the article, 60 local content providers. Although, i’m in no rush to jump into the queue and see what all the fuss is about. I will definately keep an eye out [...]

So does anyone out there make backups of their blog entries? If so, how? Do you simply backup your blog via SQL? Or do you write them locally and paste them into your blog? I was just reading Tatham’s blog and he accidentally deleted all of his blog entries and has no backups (aside from [...]

Can blogs influence decisions of others? Yes, I think they can. Do you? Just look at what happened here. snap.com has now revised their linking policy due to blog posts posted at boingboing.net and trainedmonkey.com. Ok, so news travels fast, this is an ever connected world we are in now. I may not have met [...]

Just browsed over to boingboing.net and saw a post about a new search engine. First thought? Oh no, not another one! Ok, well this one is called Snap. So, what is so special about snap that made me blog about it? Well, one feature stands out above the rest. That is, it allows for quick, [...]

I’ve been getting a lot of comment spam over the last few days and there is one key element that is the same, and that is they all come via the following referrer: http://12.163.72.13 The IPs may differ, but the referrer has consistantly come from the same address. I doubt I am the only one [...]

Was just browsing through blogs.msdn.com RSS feed and noticed that Iain McDonald is now blogging. Welcome to the blogosphere Iain! For those that haven’t heard of him, he’s an Aussie based in Redmond. And he was interviewed Scoble on Channel9. 1 & 2. Oh, and he ran the Windows XP War Room. And from Robert [...]

This technology is really cool! AAPT to eat its own WiFi [Australian IT] Imagine using WiFi to do VOIP calls while in WiFi zones, and as soon as you’re out of it, your smart phone will just switch over seemlessly to using the GSM network for your voice calls. Well, it’s all possible through a [...]