Archive for the 'geek' Category



I’ve been mucking around looking at new web apps - since if I ever get round to starting up my web business it’d pay to be up with the play.
Jon mentioned Google Reader, which has made keeping track of my overseas friend’s antics, as well as things like news, tech, and the latest on net […]

Gallery2 and Joomla download

Since the Joomla forge has been taken down there are a few components/extensions that are no longer publicly available as their authors haven’t migrated them to the new Joomlacode site (at least this is my understanding of it all).

I spent a while trying to find the Gallery2 bridge for incorporating the classic Gallery webapp into […]

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This is my lucky number.
It also seems to be the lucky number for HD-DVD.

Warcraft in Southpark

I just recently have been watching the 10th season of Southpark - which I’m finding pretty entertaining after not originally being drawn to the show. The last episode I watched was “Make Love, Not Warcraft” which, as you might guess, is a episode about World of Warcraft. It’s pretty damn funny, and awesome that Blizzard […]

Fucked up hard drive

So I needed a 300G hard drive to store results from my research, and I asked for an external one so that I could take the results home with me if I wanted to work at home. ITS got me one (after trying to convince to get an internal one, claiming they are more of […]

Back to Gnome

After spending the last year or so in KDE land, I’ve decided to come back to Gnome and see how I feel.
It’s refreshingly simpler - the other bonus is that it’s the default Ubuntu desktop, so seems to be integrated much better.
GEdit is can be made to look similar to Kate (I wanted to learn […]

Rude Goldberg Physics contest

If I had any spare time I’d love to attempt this:
Rube Goldberg Bullet Physics Contest 2007

My headphones are fixed

Today I finally fixed my DJ headphones. The plug end had a bad connection. Having headphones give out, even if it is just one channel, is No Good when you are playing live. I thought I better fix it before KiwiBurn.

Anyhow, what follows is a brief description of how to do so.

Supreme Commander

In case you all didn’t all ready know:
Supreme Commander is a new game coming out 23rd Feb and designed by the maker of Total Annihilation.
I hope it is just a fraction as good as TA, and then it’ll still be pretty awesome.

I have a question which the internet/google didn’t immediately answer for me.
I have a really nice Microsoft (I know that sounds like an oxymoron) USB mouse, but unfortunately the USB cord has given up on it around the plug. My question is thus: Is there anyway of salvaging a mouse that is perfectly fine except […]