Archive for March, 2003
GPRS Munging
Monday, March 24th, 2003Posted from: Macintosh Ti PowerBook, running MacOS X 10.2.3 with Bluetooth (simpler, more integrated than Windows XP) using Optus GPRS (also more and better integrated than Windows XP). Just double-checking that this works. Seems to drop out a little quickly...
In all this talk of 1980s music, I keep forgetting that Crowded House's Don't [...]
A-Ha
Sunday, March 23rd, 2003Just proving my point that the 1980s are cool: Holden are now advertising the Barina with a reworking of the 1983 hit: A-Ha's Take on Me. Go Morton!
Can the only logical reason be that we teenagers of the 1980s are now cashed up? Are the advertisers purposely trying to use nostalgia to free [...]
GPRS
Tuesday, March 18th, 2003Posting this entry via Bluetooth, GPRS. Wireless, Baby. Yeah!
GPRS connection setup time is really quick; there is no overhead of normal modems (handshaking) - but its still a little slower than ISDN setup time. It feels about as fast as a 56K modem connection, so its still not super-fast, but much more acceptable [...]
AI
Monday, March 17th, 2003Saw AI Artificial Intelligence for the first time last night. What an intensely moving and thought provoking film. As a fan of 'hard science fiction': my saying is that the sadest thing about dying is that you miss the future; and science fiction is the best way to experience what you miss. The movie [...]
MINI
Sunday, March 16th, 2003Sunday drive with 7 MINI Cooper S's. Sydney MINI Cooper S Meet 16 March 03
The Word Spy linguistic zeitgeist.
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DOS attack
Saturday, March 15th, 2003After over a week, the site is back. Last October, the period of downtime was due to DNS configuration issues. This time, its a collection of cascading problems: all to do with the hosting provider's data centre turned off my server due to a Denial of Service attack. In fact, look at [...]
More Travel
Sunday, March 2nd, 2003Arrived home Saturday. Fly to Brisbane Sunday for 4 days.
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