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Just looking at one of the bits of paper that came with the docking station I bought for my new laptop from Lenovo.
I think it is supposed to be some form of notice or warning - but I couldn’t really work out what they were saying !
Docking Station for Lenovo ThinkPad Notebook PC is for [...]

Just remembered - my other “new” laptop arrived today too !!!
I bought a reconditioned T41 ThinkPad from IBM (probably ex-staff machine), to use as a server.
I’ve been running an old T22 for the last couple of years as my always-on server, which runs my backups and my digital set-top-box EPG (electronic program guide), plus various [...]

Okay - I’ve got the ThinkPad T60 operational, complete with memory upgrade to 2GB (would have liked to go higher, but the 2GB modules are about 4 times the price of the 1GB modules at the moment … buying two 2GB memory modules would cost more than the laptop does !!!!!)

I also bought the [...]

Yay - my new T60 ThinkPad arrived this afternoon - I can move everything off my desktop machine and let it go back to being just a games machine.
I also got a memory upgrade and a docking station.
Will post more once I’ve spent some time setting it up.

Had to migrate off of my laptop - it has developed a problem with the screen which makes it difficult to use.
I’ve installed the most important software I use on my desktop games machine (which I don’t normally use because it is loud and generates a lot of heat).
I’m going to have to give my [...]

Great video from a pretty cool beat-box:

Thought I might just explain the photo I’ve used as the banner at the top of my blog.
It is a photo I took back in January 2000 of a sunrise over outback Australia as seen from a 747 jet flying from Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) to Sydney.
It was on the return leg of my first [...]

Aarrgghh … of course, just after I finished upgrading my parents’ blogs, an urgent new release of Wordpress was posted, fixing some malicious vulnerabilities inserted into the v2.1.1 code. So I’ve just gone through and upgraded them all again - this time to Wordpress 2.1.2.
*sigh*
Let’s see:

Trevor’s Writing
Trevor’s Birding
Trevor’s Travels
Mallee Native Plants Nursery
The Rhyme of Sim’
Rose’s [...]

I’ve done a new design for my Dad’s three blogs, and my Mother’s blog too:

Trevor’s Writing
Trevor’s Birding
Trevor’s Travels
Mallee Native Plants Nursery

I think they look quite good - and with the great photos Mum and Dad are uploading to our Photo Gallery shown in their blogs - they look even better.
This has inspired me to [...]

The big questions in Life (and some answers provided by me !!):
Why is it that people say they “slept like a baby” when babies wake up every two hours?
It’s not how long they sleep, it’s the way they sleep - they don’t have fully developed thought patterns which keep them awake - it is [...]