Category Archives: General

Should we get a 13 or 1300 number?

These numbers are a good idea and have some advantages. For example, you can have the same number with different locations and depending on the caller, it will route to the closest branch. BUT the world is changing. More and … Continue reading

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robertwarner1965@gmail.com – Gumtree / Paypal buyer scam

We’re selling our Ford Focus on Gumtree and got an SMS which we replied to as requested. NOTE: Didn’t check the phone number the SMS came from. It was +16786617688. Obviously not an Australian phone number which for anyone reading … Continue reading

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Update site to WordPress

The old PHP Nuke site was running tired, hard to update and add to. So move across to WordPress which was not to difficult a migration to complete including all the post data from the old Nuke site. All up … Continue reading

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Roadtrip to Queensland Oct 2011

We’re off on a roadtrip to Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria over the next few weeks. You can follow our adventures including live GPS tracking at my travellog blog

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Affiliates and Friends links

Association of Trevs in Australia Description: If your a Trevor, and you live in Australia, you probably will be interested in this site. It’s there for you, a Trevor in Australia. www.trev.net.au Added on: 21-Oct-2006 Cheffing Around Description: Cheffing Around, … Continue reading

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Trevor’s Electronics Blog

Are you interested in Electronics? Or embedded electronics? Or any of the Microchip PIC microcontrollers like the PIC18, PIC24, the dsPIC33 or the latest PIC32? So am I so I’m writing about my adventures with these devices in my blog … Continue reading

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Kookaburra sits on the old gum tree

Kookaburra sits on the old gum tree, Merry merry king of the bush is he. Laugh, Kookaburra, laugh, Kookaburra, Gay your life must be! It’s a well known Australian folk song but how many have actually seen a Kookaburra. Well … Continue reading

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New version of Banksia Park Weather online!

Finally got around to changing the Banksia Park Weather Station site to its new version moving the Flash movie off to a sub page and using JavaScript to keep the ‘static’ page updated every 25 seconds. It’s got more features … Continue reading

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2003 Ford Falcon BA Workshop Manual

Workshop manual for the 2003 Ford Falcon BA. This is what seems a very extensive workshop manual at 2,089 pages, however it does not include the electrical diagrams. It goes into fault diagnosis of most of the electrical though. It … Continue reading

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Telstra moves more Australian jobs to India

A comical help desk call from a customer with a very strong Australian slang to the Telstra India help desk with an agent that has a very strong Indian accent and doesn’t understand many of the Australian slang terms. It … Continue reading

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