2014 was probably the most turbulent year of my life. The following photo’s are highlights of that year. Click on image to expand.
Optical Illusion
Stare at the cross between the two changing faces. What should happen is the features of the faces merge if you are at the right distance from the screen.
Simple tricks on passwords
Hackers are getting smarter. They have learnt that most people will have one password that does it all. So once they get it from one place, it can be put into the automated robots to try it on every other site on the internet. Imagine if it’s your banking password as well as your Facebook password. This article is not going to guarantee that you will never get hacked, but…
Peanuts may contain traces of peanuts
Came across a packet of peanuts with the warning “May contain traces of Peanuts”. If only traces, what am I buying?
Australian Public Hollidays 2013
ACT Vic QLD SA WA Tas NSW NT Nbr of days in year 12 11 11 11 11 10 10 10 1-Jan New Years Day x x x x x x x x 26-Jan Australia Day x x x x x x x x 28-Jan Australia Day replacement x x x x x x x x 4-Mar Labour Day x 11-Mar Adl Cup day x 11-Mar Labour Day x 11-Mar…
Lovebuy on ebay – recomend
Every now and then something doesn’t work as planned when buying on ebay. We see ratings and you can read all sorts of stories, but the real proof in a good ebay seller is how things are handled when something doesn’t go right. That’s what happened with Lovebuy and they really came through. I won’t go into the detail except to say this is a shop that is there is…
Target out of stock of 3 arm mens jumpers from catalogue
Target’s latest catalogue has an advertisement on thier front page with a picture of a son, mother, father and daugter all wearing what looks like very comfortable fleece jumpers. The mens one is interesting as it’s got 3 arms, 2 right arms (one on the wifes shoulder and the other between the wife and himself) with his left arm holding his daughter. Anyway, I’ve called a few stores to…
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 more people are starting to use the Internet for their phone calls because of cost. Example: we changed from normal Telstra landline to Engin VoIP and our bill went from…
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 this, is the first hint that they are about to get a scammer trying them. SMS Message from +16786617688: Is the car still available for sale and whats your final…
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 about 10 hours work. The next few weeks will be doing minor tweaks with the way things look and work. If you can’t find something, from the old site, please…