Archive for the 'Online' Category

Got this email today:
This email is to inform you that your ADSL service … will be migrated to an Internode DSLAM port starting on 14/09/2006.
That is fantastic … I’ve been waiting nearly 2 years for ADSL2+
It will be interesting to see how fast my connection is … I’m less than 1km from the exchange [...]

Chewbacca, the star of the StarWars movies has a blog: UUUHHHGGG-rrrrRRR!
(via Duncan)

When designing web pages, it is important to take into account the range of devices that people will be using to view your site with.
Fortunately, almost nobody uses 640×480 resolution anymore - so there’s no point trying to cater for that as a minumum. Which is good - because that really is very small on [...]

Rhys Alexander from b5media interviewed me for the b5media blog - since I’m one of b5’s new bloggers writing at IBM Eye.
Read Blogger Interview: Sim’ Hampel
Does this count towards my 15 minutes of fame ?

I’ve upgraded my ZooBeat Forums to the latest version of vBulletin and applied a new skin to make it look a lot better. I’ve also tidied up abit, getting rid of some of the forum topics that weren’t really being used.

I upgraded my blog to Wordpress v2.0 and took the opportunity to update the design a bit.
Let me know if anything doesn’t work.

Wordpress v2.0 has just been released. Like most things in life, this is a double edged sword.
While the new functionality and bug fixes are great - it also means that I have to spend quite a bit of time carefully upgrading all my blogs (and all the blogs I manage for other people!). Unfortunately it [...]

A couple of weeks ago when I was in bed with the flu I had an interview for a position in a new team at IBM. I had been waiting for weeks for the interview, so I really didn’t want to reschedule it - especially given how difficult it had been to come up with [...]

I seem to have developed a bad habit of saying “howdy” - both as an online and a face-to-face greeting.
That might be okay if I was from Texas or somewhere similar - but as an Aussie, it’s a very bad habit and one I’ve got to stop myself doing.
Funnily enough, I do also say “g’day” [...]

Well, so much for getting organised and making some progress on my to-do list … I got the flu early last week and it basically took me offline for most of the week. I spent Tuesday and Wednesday in bed, mostly sleeping and occasionally surfing (WiFi is wonderful) … but even when I was able [...]