For my RSS feeds I used Bloglines for quite a while but I switched over to Google Reader some time back now. I still like Bloglines neat...

Managed to get hold of the DVD Set of the entire series of Get Smart . I loved this show when I watched it in the sixties and seventies but...

Summer holidays are here, time to clean up the house and get rid of all the accumulated rubbish one (or, more precisely, one's family) c...

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 ...