The world seems to have gone mad this year with list and rankings of just about everything - some of the yearly "review and recap"...

I wrote about Zoho some time back in June and again in October . Worth mentioning them again, not only because they produce excellent - an...

Well, here we are a week later, the fires are still burning and not much rain in sight. The NASA Earth Observatory has some photos from th...

The mercury hit 38C yesterday and peaked at a bit above 42C in Melbourne today - the fires are still burning. Here's another site from t...

* Photo courtesy Skynews Some of you will know that I live in Nillumbik Shire which is a semi-rural area in the city of Melbourne , state o...

This one might worth a peek - something new from the Microsoft Labs - Photosynth . It's a technology preview which they reckon is a few ...

Been trawling around the RSS feeds with Google Reader - a lot of new sites I find go directly into the Black Stump directory but there are t...

Lots of news lately about YouTube and its purchase by Google . Seems like a lot of people are worried by this. As a matter of coincidence ...

Having flown in and out of Hong Kong many times in the past, I just loved this little entry in the Humour Cafe . I recall the first time I f...

The US has banned good old Vegemite ??? I don't like the stuff personally but it's a bit of an Aussie institution - Ok, you lot ca...

Here are a few extra new sites I've stumbled across recently...no theme, just a random ramble! 2.0 Websites A Boat Show on the Internet ...

Seems like a whole raft of neat software announcements have been made lately - the first was the announcement of Google Docs & Spreadshe...

EMBED, Google video and html validation......a trail littered with one-way streets and dead-ends... I decided to give Google Video a go on...

Featuring two sites today, Grisoft.com and Grc.com. Grisoft.com features both free anti-virus and anti-spyware programs. Not much else to s...

Someone once told the camera never lied - and like most people, I don't like most photos that are taken of me....and make up your own mi...

Thrill-riders? ... the Segway to my latest blog entries is Segway Stumbles in Europe and Glitch Leads to Segway Recall . Ooh-ah, expensiv...

Be on the lookout for nasty Word documents in the next few days. Here is an FAQ on this issue. More info in these sites: Trojan.Mdropper.Q ...

Phones these days can just about do everything except slice bread - but for a blast from the past check out the Payphone Project . Still som...

Wow, we must be sooo Ugly ! - have fought our way right back up the chart to Number 1 position after dropping out of the Top 20 momentarily....

Hi Folks, Two sites worth taking a peek at today - the first is the McAfee Site Advisor which some of you might find useful. SiteAdvisor is...