Evironment
The hip bone has millions of transistors in it
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009Health practitioners learn anatomy; IT practitioners learn computer architecture This was part of the opening line that my Computer Systems lecturer began with. Too many times people don’t understand the problems they’re having, or experiencing. They may see the symptoms, but can’t actually work out what is the cause of them. Back when I worked [...]
Great Southern Land
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009Whilst we await the 2nd installment of Kris’s musings about the economy, I wish to share some interesting things about my last week. See, my wife, myself, my brother and his girlfriend recently made an (almost) 3000km trek across the country to visit my parents in Adelaide. Now, my car is just a normal car. [...]
Genesis
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009I did something silly. In my current line of work, I do a lot of tech-support, and trouble-shooting/repair of infected and non-working systems. This means having to install programs from my USB Memory Stick on occassion, which means this little stick does get into some dangerous territory. I’m not one that usually has protection (AntiVirus [...]
Lamb in wolves skin
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008Some recent musings with a fellow uni-companion brought to light the fact that many people go out purchasing Apple’s ‘macbook’, with the only intention being to scrap the host os (OS-X), and replace it with windows, usually XP, but some are going to Vista. We were discussing how stupid it was, the main reason being [...]
We live in a digital world.
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008I’ve always been really conscious of the ‘waste’ of the world – in terms of how we, as humans, are just eating up the resources that this planet has to offer – without so much as a thought for the future, and implications this will bring it. I suppose that is why we’re exploring other [...]