Archive for the 'Random' Category

150th Year Anniversary of the Eureka Stockade

Saturday, December 4th, 2004

So, it’s the 150th anniversary of the Eureka Stockade uprising in the goldfields of Ballarat, in Victoria. Have just listened to the first two g’day world podcasts by Cameron Reilly and Mick Stanic, and that reminded me about reading the news (during lunch break) about something which played quite a significant part of Australian history. [...]

a brief intermission…

Thursday, December 2nd, 2004

due to a lack of good quality content, it has been decided a temporary, brief intermissi0n may well be the order of the day. thusly, it has been decided a brief dose of randomness may be required, so in the current phase of podcasts, audioblogs and whatnot, i present to you the following audio clip. [...]

GMail Notifier, for all you GMail Users

Friday, August 20th, 2004

Google has released a new tool [though it is still in beta], it’s called the GMail Notifier. Basically it just sits in your tray and pops up new message summaries. Fairly cool, don’t mind it too much. Here it is if you are curious: http://toolbar.google.com/gmail-helper

Blog watching… a passion?

Saturday, August 7th, 2004

I’ll be honest, I do read a lot, and I do mean A LOT of blogs… Not all blogs that I do end up reading are technical ones, some are personal ones where people will talk about things that they do, their emotions and so on. Or some just write about getting a new haircut [...]