Author Archives: Dan
I thought this was a free country
After 38 years of living in what I believed to be a free country you can imagine my outrage when I came across stories about the Rudd government’s latest brainwave Minister welcomes advances in internet filtering technology (Computerworld have a … Continue reading
Cheesey Goodness
I’ve been meaning to try this for a while now, making cheeseymite scrolls that is. Armed with our trusty bread machine and a 10kg bag of breadmix I decided to see if I could come up with something yummy for … Continue reading
A Sethy-sized Laptop
With the last of our tax refund we bought the boys a sub-notebook to play with, the eeepc 4g from Asus. The specs are as follows Display: 7″CPU: 900 MHz Celeron-MVideo: Intel GMA 900OS: LinuxColour: WhiteNetwork: 10/100MB Ethernet & 80211b/g … Continue reading
Geocaching, the modern day treasure hunt……
Inspired by my Texan colleague and enabled by my recent acquisition of a 3G iPhone I decided to have a crack at Geocaching. For the uninitiated this involves trying to find a hidden cache of goodies based on GPS co-ordinates. … Continue reading
3G iPhone….. Yay.
I decided to update my iPhone to the new 3G model for a number of reasons * GPS * 3G data * A locally supported legit phone So far I’m very happy with the upgrade, Viv has inherited my previous … Continue reading
Happy Birthday Toby
On the 24th of May 2008 at 4:14pm we welcomed yet another member to the extended Drysdale Collective. My brother-in-law and his wife took delivery of their first child Toby George Micheal The labour and delivery went well and mother … Continue reading
The Drought Has Broken
After many failed attempts 😉 amongst the immediate family and friends there is finally a girl!!!! Contgratulations to Shane & Jo on the birth of their daughter Makayla Natasha Born 03:14 on 22/04/2008, weighing 3.36kg (7.7lb) and measuring 52cm Mum, … Continue reading
Fixing Mail.app on the iPhone
I wonder if I should start an iPhone category 😉 I recently used the Pwn Project tools to make a custom 1.1.4 firmware that is activated, jailbroken etc, it all worked well and after restoring the firmware to my iPhone … Continue reading
All Hail Prince William
At 05:45 on March 24th, 2008 after an "Easy" 4 hour labour my sister Rachel gave birth to her 3rd boy William Vincent Whyte Weight: 3.750 KgLength: 51 cmHead Circumference: 37 cm Mother and baby are doing well…. This takes … Continue reading
Fixing My iPhone Camera
I recently updated my iPhone’s firmware to 1.1.3. Last weekend I took the boys to the park and used my phone to take a few photos (or so I thought), unfortunately when I got home there were no photos on … Continue reading
