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Monthly Archives: January 2008
My mountain bike
I haven’t seriously ridden my mountain bike since I got back from Asia last year. This is a tremendous shame because I really enjoy riding and my health was really improving as the weight dropped. I hope to get back into it soon. This photo is from 2007 where I had let my friend Daniel ride my bike down a tricky bit of hill to try it out and when he stopped the bike stood perfectly balanced for around 5 minutes. I managed to take a few photos before it fell over.
Posted in Environment, Fitness, Mountain Bike, Photography, travel
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xxxxx1th tank of fuel for the VTR1000f
140km to 14L = 10L/100km. I was getting better economy last year but in my new job my commute is less highway and more gridlock.
Posted in Environment, motorcycle
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Yard control
The house I moved into had a quite overgrown backyard with lots of lantana that was strangling the trees which had grown rather ugly (and mostly dead) in an attempt to escape the strangling vines. In an attempt to control my yard I have over the last few weeks gathered an arsenal of backyard weapons including such things as a 4 Stroke Rover lawnmower, a Fiskas saw on a pole and a Ryobi 2000w electric chainsaw. Believe it or not the electric chainsaw is the stand out item of the bunch and the most surprising. It was extremely cheap (especially compared to the petrol models) and the salesman tried his best to discourage me from buying electric because it wouldn’t be able to do anything bigger than tiny branches. Oh my was he wrong. It sounds like a circular saw … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Fitness
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I’m online! Naked ADSL2+ and VOIP
Well it’s finally all working. The DSL was took about 30 seconds to setup but I spent about 4 hours working on my Linksys VOIP box before I had all the functionality available to me. I’m pleasantly surprised though to find the calls over VOIP are crystal clear and reliable. Surprisingly the voice quality appears better than PSTN. I plan to write up a quick guide to iinet VOIP with my Linksys VOIP box soon.
Posted in General, IT, Technology
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Telstra arrives!
After spending another 25 minutes on hold to iinet last night the support person informed me that he had scheduled for a Telstra technician to correct the ‘fault’ with my connection at 7am this morning. At 7:30am I tried using my telephone and was disappointed to find it still working so I made breakfast and got ready for work. As I was stepping out the door at 8am a Telstra van pulled into my driveway and he called me on my home phone to say he was commencing work and could he come inside to test the connection inside. He asked me about this eye eye net thing and is it true it works without having a telephone number. Does this VOIP thing I’ve heard of have a telephone number too? He tested my 2nd telephone port and found the … Continue reading
Posted in General, IT, Technology, motorcycle
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So long without the internet! (Where is my naked DSL iinet?)
When I moved house over christmas I left the world of having broadband behind. Unwittingly I stepped into a world of difficulties when I attempted to setup iinet’s new Naked DSL at my new house. My first two attempts resulted in a “No such service address” which iinet said was a response from Telstra that my house couldn’t have a telephone connection. Given there was two telephone points in the kitchen and there was a ‘connect with optus’ letter in my letterbox I presumed that someone who previously lived there had used a working telephone. I then decided that rather than fighting with a webpage and long telephone support queues I would submit an application to Telstra to have a telephone line connected. Within a few days a Telstra technician arrived and after a few false attempts at connecting the … Continue reading
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Pre-Macworld prediction
I’ve noticed Dell’s new tablet pc has 64GB Solid state storage. If Apple release a subnotebook computer there is a good chance that it’ll also contain this drive. The question is what does the big banner at the front of the conference “Something is in the air” mean?
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Third tank of fuel in the Yaris
It’s been a while since I filled up but I’m still without internet at home so it’s been harder for me to update. On my last tank I travelled 606km on 30L which is around 4.95L/100km!
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