iPhone solutions for cold hands in winter

10. January 2010

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iPhone solutions for cold hands in winter

As many iPhone owners who have experienced cold winters know, you often have to make a very difficult choice: keep your hands warm or take off your gloves to use the iPhone to text your best friend about how cold you are. Unfortunately, the iPhone’s touch screen does not recognize gloved fingers. I discovered this [...]

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Dell Zino HD headed for Australia .. ?

21. November 2009

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Dell Zino HD headed for Australia .. ?

The ‘Bloody Hell Dell’ Run-around I had a simple question for a local Dell staffer - “when will the Zino HD be released in Australia?”.  You’d think that calling a local 1800 or local exchange number might actually get you a local , wouldn’t you? However, after several calls during which [I swear] I was transferred between [...]

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6. October 2009

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HP MediaSmart Servers coming to Australia .. kinda

LX197 & EX490 for Australia - no EX495 Just got off the phone with HP Australia (Melbourne and Sydney) … HP will release LX197 & EX490 Windows Home Server based machines on the 19th October 2009 (less than two weeks).  That’s right, no EX495 (Grrrr! HP).  This is contrary to reports on the OzziCom Blog which [...]

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27. September 2009

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20 Places Not to Eat

20 Places Not to Eat

CAUTION: Harsh Restaurant Signage Follows ;-o Yes yes, it’s the online equivalent of a fart joke - immature, boyish and likely to stunt my intellectual development (not to mention skew the readership of opinionroad), but if for no other reason than to liberate it from the giddy roundabout of endless ‘fwd:fffwd:re:’ emails, here are the Top [...]

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6. August 2009

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Spotted #001 - random photographic observations

Spotted #001 - random photographic observations

In this [first of a series] I cover some random photographic observations made during the forgoing week. This week's includes hot salami love, death marketing success for Michael Jackson, Chinese quality control (or lack thereof) and deceptive advertising.

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12. July 2009

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Website Monitoring Services

Website Monitoring Services

Following the migration of a number of my websites from physical servers to virtualised hosting, many of the sites experienced worrying outages. I subsequently went in search of a decent web server monitoring service that could shed some light on the actual downtime. The following is a review of the top 3 of those services, along with screenshots and recommendations.

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