DB Revisited

Good Gift

For Mr Apple ? what do you think grasshopper ? before your next trip on a plane or up a hill

Oops

Just noticed the WIP to add a banner changed the whole theme without my noticing ! Banner will make it back when I have time and enthusiasm to re-learn some CSS, been a while since the mblog days.

Converted

Mr Apple will be smiling when he reads this...

More Goodies from Google

If you have a g-mail account you can now get instant messaging to go with it, I wonder what these guys will add to the service next.

Gadget Dave Does it Again

I was keeping this one under wraps but after dear actually commented that this little magic box was a good thing I couldn't resist posting. It has taken me twelve years to find a gadget dear enjoys as much as I do. I wonder how many years until the next one ?.........

He Smote My Home PC

  I have spent about 24 hours during the past four days getting the home PC back to talking on the net. We had a big strom which knocked down trees on the power lines and a resulting spike that tripped power to the condo and our unit switchboard. Everything seemed sort of normal but the modem was out of action. Luckily we took the package where TM owns it not us but took a couple of days to get a new one installed.

Then the real headache started as the PC would not talk to the modem anymore. I could connect via the router with my work PC so it looked a lot like a software issue. Especially as the internal diagnostics kept saying the onboard LAN was ok. I tried everything I could find in the online forums and hardware sites to no avail so did the dreaded clean install only to find that it was still incommunicado.

So 35RM later for a new network card bingo it was back online. I could have saved 23 of those hours and a lot of re-installing software and up to date drivers if I followed my instinct rather than logic first ! Worst part is I backed up all the files except the emails so we have lost a bunch. I am getting rusty to miss that one as well. Trust me if you get an error with assignment of an IP from your ISP or router try the LAN card first even if the light is on as mine was.

Are you looking at me google ?

gotta hand it to them they have a search for everything and now blogs

thanks baggas

Condo Clearance

Unpacking and trying to get the office organised and we have a couple of excess gadgets to get rid off.

1. Audioline analog cordless phone with answering machine - free to a good home

2. IPAQ Model 3870 PDA (bluetooth model) with leather case and desktop cradle, has been upgraded to Pocket PC 2003 - any reasonable offer

3. Sony Ericsson bluetooth headset (doesn't have long enough talk time for my after hours telecons !) - any reasonable offer

It takes a bot to catch one

Amazing the things that go on in cyber space, perhaps Tron is not that far off after all.

Creepy

Anybody else find this creepy