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Traxxas Revo 2.5R Nitro

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

Had my trusty Traxxas Revo 2.5R Nitro Monster Truck working today, however just as I was getting into the swing of things, noticed the rubber between the exhaust and engine sprung a leak.

Guess I will need to order a replacement when I order a few parts in the next 2 weeks. At least I had the unit running again, will give a tune another attempt once I fix the above mentioned part.

Still waiting on our Rustler VXL Brushless buggy to show up. Still no update on the tracking website. Hoping it arrives sometime this week. Will post some pics and video footage eventually.

iPhone ringtone – Yo! Sweetness by MC Hammer

Sunday, June 21st, 2009

Created an iPhone ringtone from the song Yo! Sweetness by MC Hammer. Click the link below to download a copy.

Yo! Sweetness.m4r.zip

iPhone ringtone – LoveGame by Lady Gaga

Sunday, June 21st, 2009

Created an iPhone ringtone from the song Love Game by Lady Gaga. Click the link below to download a copy.

LoveGame.m4r.zip

Site changes

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

Site has undergone a number of changes. Things may break from time to time. However if after a few days you still see something broken, by all means make a comment and/or contact me.

In the meantime, it would appear I have finally found a reasonable theme. So I am attempting to use this theme and change things to suit our site. It’s a work in progress, however I have certainly obtained some understanding of WordPress themes in the last day or two while tinkering around.

One area needing work is some old attachments and pictures, I will slowly fix these over the next few weeks. Don’t be surprised if you see a number of new entries start to appear from time to time, I will try to post a few more things.

Extremely busy

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

I’ve been extremely busy lately, although it’s not an excuse not to be posting. Hopefully as things settle I will start to post a little more often about what is happening, especially what I might be up to.

I just noticed 2 very interesting talks taking place at the meeting tomorrow for SLUG. I honestly wish I could go to listen to both talks, however don’t think I can spare the evening. Maybe someone can let me know if the meetings are recorded in some way and made available for viewing. Although I suspect maybe not.

Today is my 2nd day back at work after 2 weeks off. Took 2 weeks off to spend with the wife and our new baby boy Darwyn. Will be sure to post more pictures of Darwyn as soon as I sort out how I want to host them.

I’ve moved the blog location on the server, have decided to just keep it at the top level of our domain, since I don’t really have any other plans for it. Besides maybe eventually my wife might want to chime in and post sometimes (maybe only when we are away on holidays possibly).

Anthony Rumble: Rest In Peace

Friday, May 15th, 2009

I’ve just learnt that Anthony Rumble passed away after an accident at home some days ago. My condolences to his family. I’d never met Anthony Rumble personally, however I had dealt with him a number of times in the early days of Everything Linux. Further more I had exchanged emails with him in the past via SLUG.

All I can say is this is a great loss to his family and the community. Anthony Rumble was a great guy and someone whom I certainly had respect for. Anthony will be missed by everyone who had dealt with him.

Richard Black: Rest In Peace

Friday, May 8th, 2009

It’s with sorrow I announce the passing of an Uncle. We were informed yesterday evening that things had taken a turn for the worse. My wife and I were planning on travelling up to Bathurst to see my Uncle tomorrow morning, however it appears that wasn’t meant to be as he sadly passed away in the afternoon of today.

He will be sadly missed by his family and friends.

Rest in peace.

Open-Mesh

Monday, April 27th, 2009

I had considered the purchase of two open-mesh wireless units, just curious if anyone else reading this might have already done so. I only consider it now, as the ISP plan I am on allows me to give back to the community. Besides I wouldn’t mind help foster others getting involved to allow the mesh to be a bit bigger in my area.

Linode announce 33% more diskspace for all users

Friday, April 24th, 2009

Linode announce 33% more diskspace for all users. This is great news, especially since I am a Linode customer.

Oddly enough I had been considering the purchase of some extra diskspace. Guess I don’t have to consider no more, as I now have 4gb more. All I need to do is to decide a good time to shutdown the host and expand existing volumes as required to make use of the new found free space.

I highly recommend Linode. I’ll be renewing my account once the 12 months expires around the end of September this year. If you’d like to sign up with them, then please by all means use my referal code by clicking here.

Sun xVM

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

I’d heard a bit about Sun xVM but hadn’t actually had the chance to look at the product.

In the last day or two I have a chance to install the product. All I can say is I am very impressed. It works extremely well. Not bad for a product that is Free.

The GUI is easy enough to use, and the performance of the guests seem good too. It’s also good to see they have packaged tools packages for various supported operating systems, so the installed guest gets some extra handy functions.

Question is, what will happen to this product and others once Oracle take over. I surely hope they don’t disappear.