Heimic

Took out the Traxxas Revo on the weekend and it wasn’t at all fun. It kept stalling, and I put that down to glow plug. Put new one in and still same problem. So I believe since I slightly changed fuel types it will need a bit of attention regarding the tuning.

In the process of changing the glowplug I damaged the wiring, so now I need to buy another wiring harness. Oh the joys.

Will order some parts I need tonight, and I do believe I have a spare left over in my kit that I can use to fix the rear wheel assy. As it seems loose.

The Revo is awesome when it runs, no so fun when it don’t. As you can imagine.

After a bit of thought on the situation, my wife and I finally decided that we would put our house on the market.

We have thought about it for a while, and when we went overseas the plan was to come home and then put it on the market before Xmas.

As of the weekend, we signed with the agent of choice. By tomorrow the paperwork for the contract should be complete. At which time we should arrive home to find a For Sale sign posted on the lawn.

Our house has served us well, but we seriously need to consider future things. Namely plan for children, so with that in mind we hope to build a place in one of the nearby suburbs. We had found a house plan we like, however it appears the blocks of land available are not as we liked. So we might even buy some land just up the road from where we live now, and build with a different builder. As it will be a bit cheaper then we had planned elsewhere. Probably about 20,000 cheaper.

Of course if and when the house sells, it means we will have to go rent for a bit. So I will probably loose broadband. Oh no..

My wife and I went to the Motorshow on Saturday night. And I must admit it was a good time to go. It wasn’t really busy, and was an easy stroll from car to car.

We took a few photos, and when I get time tonight I will upload what photos we did get. Although we mainly went to have a look around and not have to go for a trip around Sydney to see all cars we wanted to see.

Been thinking about getting a Golf TDI (Diesel) for our next car, although the new Audi A3 Sportshatch looks very nice. So it might be a tough decision just yet when the time comes.

Update: Pictures now online. Click the image below to visit the gallery.

It appear’s as though mactalk is in recovery mode of recent problems.

Site was running an old version of IPB which had some security issues, which were exploited twice. So it was taken offline until they can migrate and have a new theme configured for the new forum software.

So it appears all steam ahead. It also appears the many suggestions are onboard. Namely the call for a Wiki which I personally have called for. Another suggestion I have called for is a PlanetPlanet RSS aggregator setup. Since I can’t comment on the post they made, let this post serve as a reminder with a friendly trackback.

Of course let’s not forget. Good work guys and gals.

Tonight is our 3rd year Wedding Anniversary and my wife and I decided that we would eat out for the event.

We decided we would goto a local restaurant which we haven’t been to for atleast 3 or more years since it first opened. The first time we went the food was amazing and the restaurant was amazing too. The interior is very nice with all the sandstone walls.

We arrived at The Hermitage Restaurant and were seated fairly quickly, pays to book ahead just incase. I ordered a Snapper Fillet and I must say it was totally awesome. It came with Battered Fries and they too were excellent. My wife ordered Steak and it too looked very nice.

On the whole, an excellent evening and a wonderfull meal.

Happy to recommend this place, so if your in the area and want to eat somewhere that is nice. Go for it.

Thought I’d post about my experience with fighting spam, especially in response to Simon Rumble’s post about him moving his MX records to a third party provider who will filter mail for him.

It appears a number of email addresses seem to get a quite some spam. I put this down to the fact that the account when used on a number of mailing lists didn’t filter said email address in the list archives. So it comes up in google results all the time.

I’ve ran my own mail server from time to time, but I didn’t want to do this. Since if and when we move it means I have to change things around. Then I saw that Google was offering Google Hosted services as a beta. So I created a subdomain and pointed the MX records to Google Hosted services for that subdomain.

We all know how good Gmail filtering is, so having this type of setup with my subdomain and for free was a great idea.

Sure enough the solution works very well and blocks quite a large number of spam.