Technology, Food and everything in between
April 15th, 2010
Musings on the Tassie Trip, the good, the bad, and the annoying… Friday the 8th of April 2010 We left Friday morning for Melbourne. On the drive, it didn’t stop raining for almost the whole 8 hour drive until half an hour from our stop at St Kilda in Melbourne. I remember at about [...]
November 24th, 2009
It’s been a journey that many have taken. Migrating from a Windows operating system to Mac. The word Mac used to grit through my clenched teeth, I almost spat it out at the thought of using one. What has happened in the mean time has been interesting. I like to muck around with computers and [...]
November 12th, 2009
The Atom 330 is a Low power Dual Core/hyperthreading architecture destined for the Mini-ITX market. This market would be: People not wanting a super speedy machine and want to save power. People wanting a low power NAS. My plan is to investigate the possibly of replacing it with my main TV Recording box and see [...]
November 12th, 2009
Introduction The McAngus burger is indeed a master deceiver of epic proportions. When you eat it, it tastes fantastic, you are sure that’s it’s doing your body good. Instead, this burger filled with sugar, additives of the unnatural kind, flavours, fat (of the saturated kind), and colours (over 100 ingredients in all), mark my [...]
November 12th, 2009
10 of the most useless iphone apps which probably exist. iGetUp – Can’t decide to get up in the morning or not? Let this app decide! iDrinkTooMuchCoffee – Put in every coffee you drink in the day to monitor your coffee usage. imTooFat – Think your Budda’s sibling? Before eating something, open this app up [...]
October 14th, 2009
Ok, time for another 10 things . These are 10 things you do not want to see on food packaging, going with 10 to 1, in no particular order. Ok, I found a few more to add in my demented brain, so it goes past 1 (and past 10, why, I don’t know, I told [...]
July 23rd, 2009
Ok, everyone loves a good competition, but, muesli bars, who would have thought? I decided, these days, there is enough difference amongst food’s to give a good competition, so we are tipping off against two muesli bar types, the Carman’s Apricot and Almond Muesli Bar and Uncle Toby’s Apricot Muesli Bar (“chewy”). “But they are [...]
June 1st, 2009
Now that Vista is almost dead and the almighty Windows 7 is going to take over, we need some therapy to see it off. Here are some things your likely to hear about Vista over the next few months. You laugh nervously when you see a computer tagged with ‘Windows Vista Ready’. That [...]
February 14th, 2009
Dont get me wrong here, the iphone app, Fish Tycoon is a very fun and addictive game, but just like some games out there, its not quite up the standard of one of the best games I’ve played on the iphone and there’s a few things the developers of this app could do to make [...]
October 2nd, 2008
Ok, I did try and find another name for it, but alas, I just couldn’t! Whilst editing and updating my facebook page, let me say, I just love the application, the way it works and how everything is integrated into a couple of actual pages, they take the Internet social networking scene to a new [...]