bought www.thehangover.com.au for $22.00 yesterday 
The Hangover
May 31st, 2011I’m back Jerry
May 17th, 2011The famous words of George Costanza from Seinfeld.
Wordpress has been updated, and no longer erroring out on my host, it’s been a long time coming. I can now update wordpress, so some quality posts are in the pipe lines.
In the meantime, I’ve been working on a few other little progress, including my Craigieburn website, and it’s quite evident the site centres on Craigieburn, the area I live in.
Check back soon.
Offline for a while
August 12th, 2010No new updates because one me my plugins for Wordpress is broken, limiting update functions to the android WP app.
Porter Davis will be coming out soon for the 12 month maintenance inspection, hard to believe we’ve been in the house for almost a year!
Anyhow, ill add some more photos and news when I fix this php issue with Wordpress.
Random Images around Melbourne
May 31st, 2010I thought I’d post a few random images I’ve captured around town on my Google Android HTC Tattoo Phone.
The 5 Megapixel camera is OK, it doesn’t have a good zoom or flash, but it does the job of capturing random pics during the day.
CCIE
A bit of a joke around the office.. The theory is, you need to have Cisco branded number plates on your car to be able to sell Cisco Networking Equipment. Nothing to do with expertise or the certification itself.
TIO
A very sick sick joke in the office. I happened to visit the building where the TIO are run out of in Melbourne, and stumbled upon this revelation that explains a lot about the complaint handling and escalation process within the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman.
Modern Values
A highly appropriate image to be advertising on the back of a school bus, don’t you think?
Doodle
This is one of the many creative and amusing shapes that are made out of the many milk crates in the vacant lot next to my car park in the city. I imagine the shape is visible from the top stories of the rialto and Bourke place. Quite funny. I think the person responsible has either given up, or was a bored employee of the car park, and subsequently been fired.
Corner Feature Chalet Facade – coming soon
May 10th, 2010We’ve just acquired some wood for a little project to add to the front facade of our house.
At the display home, Porter Davis show the Kensington 24 in the Chalet Facade, however they also show a feature which is not an available option (like many other elements of a porter davis display home).
The item is a wooden frame attached from the brick pier, around the front of the bedroom, and instead of the house having an indented look, it squares it off quite nicely.
Regardless of the frame, the house looks good either way, but it’s something we wanted to do for a while.
Pictures will be posted when completed.
Other pending rennovations or work to be done, include:
- Spraying the concrete in the al-fresco
- Gas connection to the BBQ
- Extension of the Al Fresco / Outdoor Patio
Stay tuned for updates.
Uninstall Apps on Google Android
March 25th, 2010I’ve been tinkering with this new Google Android HTC Tattoo Phone a lot recently, and have spent the better part of a day filtering through and installing the applications from the Android market.
There are a lot of great applications (whois, process/app killers), a lot of quirky (Midori cocktail recipes), and some apps that are just plain stupid (Atheist quote generator, Scientology tests, etc).
I’ve decided I don’t want my phone filled up with rubbish applications that are beta versions, or simply don’t work on my phone/OS, and whilst the Android Market makes it very easy to install an application, there isn’t a blatantly obvious method of uninstalling.
I’ve found the simplest way to uninstall applications on the Google Android is as follows:
- From your home screen, open your “Android” menu, or “All Programs” menu
- Go into your settings applet
- Select Applications
- Click on Manage Applications
- you’ll now be present a list of applications that you can press and then uninstall
Caution: Be careful not to uninstall any of the critical/core operating system applications, as this could cause problems with your phones functionality. If you’re unsure what an installed application does, just leave it installed!
Netcomm Wireless Reboot
March 23rd, 2010I’ve had an annoying problem with my wireless adsl router at home recently.
I’ve got this new Google Android Phone and thought I’d connect to my wireless network at home for internet usage, rather than using the mobile 3G Access.
Unfortunately my Netcomm NB6plus4W Wireless modem/router kept rebooting everytime I tried to connect.
I thought my modem may have been fried after recent storm activity in Melbourne, but it turns out there is a firmware problem according to this whirlpool post which causes the modem to enter a reboot cycle when “non-computers” try to connect via Wep (ie: iphone, other smartphones, xbox, playstation, etc).
New Netcomm NB6plus4W Firmware to fix the problem is available here and here.
In the meantime I’m using the NetComm NB9MAXX and testing out VOIP functionality on it.
Site Debris Part 3
March 22nd, 2010I received a call regarding brick cleaning two weeks ago from the site supervisor from the neighbouring Porter Davis Lifestyle home, and a day after talking to the supervisor, a cleaner was sent around, and thankfully the bricks were cleaned to a satisfactory standard (albeit 6 months late).
I think there has been some irreversible damage or stains caused by the time the mortar was stuck to the bricks, but it’s not overly noticeable and it’s on a side of the house mostly out of view, so I’m not going to stew on it too much.
HTC Tattoo Phone
March 22nd, 2010I am trialling a new mobile phone for work, The HTC Tattoo featuring the Google Android operating system.
I am writing this very post on the phone’s touch screen qwerty keyboard using the Wordpress for Android plugin. Quite nifty.
The phone doesn’t have the plethora of apps like the iPhone but the android market still features a respectable and growing list of applications.
I currently have my Hosted Google Apps Gmail and calendar synced to the phone, as well as Facebook, but haven’t bothered with Twitter or Flickr yet.
I’m beginning to grow quite fond of the android platform and HTC Tattoo, and looking forward to the Google nexus one.
ONE will be stocking The HTC Tattoo Phone from April 2010. Pick one up from myone.com.au next month.
Retaining Wall Part 2
March 10th, 2010I just received a call back from Porter Davis about the retaining wall.
Basically:
- They advise it’s not needed (although I haven’t been advised of, or seen any engineer’s report)
- They won’t be installing it, nor will the be any refund or rebate issued (contrary to previous discussions)
That was the reaction I expected.
On a more positive note, I spoke to the neighbour’s supervisor earlier (Porter Davis Lifestyle), he’ll be on site today and chase up the issue of mortar on the side of the house, so hopefully this is a step in the right direction.