Surely one of the most useful and cost-effective PC add-ins these days is the DVD burner. Not only can you make video DVDs for playing on your favourite set-top DVD player, but you can store HUGE tracts of data on discs that cost way less that $A1 each.

If you don’t have a DVD burner, surely [...]

Norton Internet Security: you have stuffed up my home PC for the last time. You’re outta here.

The Akismet spam prevention plug-in for WordPress detected and blocked its first flyingnerd.com comment spam last night.

Two attempts to place comment spam were detected. Both were intercepted and blocked. No intervention on my part has been required. So far, so good.

This post will probably only interest people with a video editing bent. I sent it to the mug-sw email list earlier today…

The Akismet comment spam detection and obliteration plugin has now been installed on this site. With a bit of luck, I won’t get many more moderation requests for comment spam.

Your intelligent and friendly comments are always welcome!

The mighty (if slightly fallen) WiliamsF1 Formula 1 team has signed GP2 champ Nico Rosberg (son of former F1 World Champ and also Williams driver, Keke Rosberg) to partner ‘our Mark’ Webber in 2006.

I celebrated my second 21st birthday a week or so ago. One of my gifts was the newly-released CD: She will have her way: the songs of Tim and Neil Finn.

Fresh posts have been few and far between for the last few weeks and may be spasmodic for the next few as well.

The Flying Nerd site has been active for some time now and has been blissfully free of comment spam. Until yesterday, that is.