Posted by Nathanael (admin) on March 31st, 2008 in general
As much as I love Weewar, it is just a game, and so in the category of productivity and actual useful web applications Box.net is easily the most awesome web app I’ve seen so far this year.
I went looking for online file storage last night to transfer files between two computers not on a LAN; […]
Tags: boxnet, drive, files, idrive, share, storage, transfer
Posted by Nathanael (admin) on March 30th, 2008 in general
How annoying are they? To update I mean. I update my avatar somewhere around every 1-6 months and it takes over half an hour to go through all your profiles to upload the new pic, not to mention having to process it first into a range of different sizes.
I create a 1200×1200 pixel master image […]
Tags: accounts, avatars, keepass, profiles
Posted by Nathanael (admin) on March 27th, 2008 in general
I know Steve would be particularly disappointed about this, given Rentoid’s position on Hummers: “Hummers aren’t welcome here. Buy yourself a hybrid and rent it out instead.“:
The H3 consumes about 15 litres per 100 km … compared to my Mini Cooper S which does 8 L/100km.
Glug glug.
Not to mention that putting big cars on […]
Tags: canberra, competition, environment, hummer, resources
Posted by Nathanael (admin) on March 26th, 2008 in general, music
I’ve had my Asus Eee PC for a couple of months now and my Vodafone 3G USB modem for just over a week … but today I listened to streaming Internet radio on my way home on the bus - and the fact I could do that just blew me away.
Set up the laptop and […]
Tags: 3G, asus. eee, crumpler, GPRS, HSDPA, internet, laptop, mobile, modem, radio, streaming, vodafone, wifi, wireless
Posted by Nathanael (admin) on March 15th, 2008 in general
For years I’ve wondered why some managers just don’t get what a prototype is; it’s purpose and scope of use. The prototypes I’ve built to demo features only to cringe when they’re taken over and pushed into production. When my very own creations are used against me to negate my estimates for the time it […]
Tags: project, prototype, terminator