Yes folks, I have a new job. I'm now the "Internet Sales Co-ordinator" at Computerbank Victoria

What does this mean? It means I rummage through piles of odd IT and multimedia gear, research specifications online, and then list them on ebay. For a day a week of this and a couple of hours from home, they pay me $23.50 an hour ( Read more... )

How to teach an artifical "intelligence" system the meaning of love.


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Here's another free movie. Pirates Of Silicon Valley - a docudrama about the beginnings of the personal computer revolution.

And you thought I was bad...

For the nerdier amongst us, an interesting article from Make magazine.

Open source hardware, what is it? Here's a start...


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Now are you sure you want that sitting on your lap?

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ReacTable? Lemur? Pfeh! How about off the shelf hardware and some F/OSS love?

WARNING: CONTAINS BAD RAPPING

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From Music Thing, whence links to how to build it in the comments.

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Often when you recycle an old computer, you find weird things on it. I just scored a beauty.

On a 40MB drive from a Mac LC - a Word doc of notes from a meeting between Ivan Milat and his lawyers in Long Bay remand centre.