I have long enjoyed e-mail security thanks to a free certificate from Thawte (Pronounced “thought” I believe), and have been quite happy with the processes and results. It’s pretty easy – join on their site for free and you can almost immediately get a free certificate to sign & encrypt your e-mails. The only problem…

Losing a long term pet is hard…

For those who choose not to make the switch to a better browser Microsoft will be releasing Service Pack 2 for you … soonish 😛 According to this: “Windows XP SP2 RTM!“, it will be available to average-joe users on or about 16-Aug (For Aussies, this will really mean 17-Aug sometime). While I’m impressed with…

Twice in the last 24 hours I have felt like a stranger to my “home” city. I have been working the ‘evening shift’ a few days each week; starting at 4pm, finishing around midnight-1am. As a result, I enter and leave the city at different times to what I am used to. And it’s strange!…

He/She has been absent for some time … but they are back! Yes, the genius at my office who can’t even open milk properly. I can’t answer for the rest of the world, but here in Australia our milk cartons have two clearly labeled sides: One says “Open Here” and the other says “OPEN OTHER…

Now that I’m using WordPress 1.2 I’ve noticed plenty of references to “Trackbacks” and have found very little information about what they are. Here and here are two reasonable explanations … I’m yet to see it in action; must be time to go looking. An associated concept are the “Pingbacks” and there is slightly more…

Yes, it’s time for System Administrator Appreciation Day again, and I’m really hoping someone remembers it this year … not like the last 4 years when everyone just points and laughs when I mention it! 😥 If you’re at a loss for what to get for me, I have gone to the effort of preparing…

Amost all the things I think I am, I know “artist” is not one of them… And so, we have no logo/image/icon to characterise myself and my family on letterheads, blogs, etc Suggestions and sample from any helpful, friendly, neighbourhood designers would be appreciated. My other option is to use some of Seb’s artwork –…

Pros: I think it looks nicer than Grey Matter The creation and editing of content is much nicer for me (and faster) Plenty of nifty built-ins like tracking, linking, categories, users, drafts, private posts, RSS feeds and much much more Easy import of my old Greymatter content Cons: All pages run with PHP instead of…

Apart from being a nerd and/or a geek, I have to admit to being an “Eco-Fanboy”

Stuff: No. I am NOT dead. 😀 Mozilla. Use It. Pattern Recognition Reasons not to blog: Lazy. Holiday. Sickness. Other Hobbies (Electronics). Family. … Profit. 😀 Dream On.

I rarely have trouble remembering passwords, so I find it odd when people tell me “Passw0rd” is too hard to remember… I’ll think this article is likely to get printed and pinned to the noticeboards near the more password-phobic staff.

As every (living) post-adolescent boy knows, “I am immortal!” How do we know this? Because we aren’t dead yet… 😛 Thus it came as quite a shock to me this evening when I saw for the first time a man staring back at me in the mirror. My “Residual Self-Image” is apparently a boy of…

Alas and Woe, our chooks are no more… 😥 In a list of unfortunate circumstances, our dog killed our chooks on Tuesday. We don’t believe he actually intended them to become dead, and he didn’t make any attempt to eat them once they were, but they’re still dead. Kim was quite distraught – chooks are…

“I’m not mad I just say ‘Penguin’ at the end of every sentence. Penguin” 😛 SPAM is everyone’s un-favourite topic in IT security, and has been for the last few years… Why isn’t it getting any better? Good question, and everyone has a different answer. MY answer is this: Bloody useless ISPs Current case-in-point is…

I’m fairly sure most people have to work to achieve balance between Motivation and Procrastination, but I’m finding anything approaching balance is fairly distant. I’m motivated to get motivated, but when the time comes I just end up procrastinating… Chip in from Kim: As Garfield says, “My get up and go got up and went.”…

I have had the title of this entry stuck in my head since Kim and I had a brief discussion when I arrived home. It went something like this: R: Hi there, how was your day? K: Hectic and tiring R: What did you get up to after lunch? (Kim and her grandparents ventured into…

I’m sure most working parents know the feeling of coming home and being greeted by a child who hasn’t seen you all day and are jst so excited to see you that you almost think it would have been easier to stay at work. You’re tired, the child is tired, and your partner is tired…