I received this link in an Southern Cross Gliding Club group email. The link takes you to a moving hand/eye coordination and reflex testing puzzle.

To ‘play’ the puzzle, click on the red square and ‘hold’ it. You must drag the red square around in such a manner that you don’t touch any of the moving [...]

The Flying Nerd operates at (and sometimes beyond) the bleeding edge of technology. I always like to bring you news of new technology that will enhance your life and make the world a better place.

This is NOT such a technology!

I suppose if you were amongst the laziest 1% of the population, this device (a gun [...]

KonicaMinolta is exiting the camera business. This article describes the various steps that KM is taking to close down and divest itself of its own-brand digital camera business, and its film and paper manufacturing operations.

I remember fondly my old Minolta Dynax 3si SLR (a film camera) that I owned in the late 80s and [...]

We LOVE Mythbusters at our house.

Who’d have thought that 11 and 8 year old girls would love to sit down with their Dad and watch a couple of well-paid septic Nerds try to prove or disporove urban myths? Well, they do. And, like me, they especially enjoy blowing things up at the end.

This site contains [...]

Here’s a good article containing links to sites that have free or low price stock photos (for use in PowerPoint presentations, for example).

My two good flights at Forbes can now be viewed on-line, courtesy of the AeroKurier international on-line soaring contest.

The on-line contest (OLC) operates through a web site onto which glider pilots from around the world can load their flights for scoring and viewing by others. I’ve loaded my flights for 10 January (Forbes – Narromine [...]

After a few busy weeks at home (Christmas, Test Match, sermon preparation), this week the Nerd really is flying!

I have travelled to Forbes (central western NSW, south west of Parkes) to participate in the Southern Cross Gliding Club’s annual camp.

Yesterday (Tuesday) was my first flying day. I flew the club’s DG-303 glider. It was a [...]

After following a relatively simple set of instructions, the Flying Nerd site has been updated to Wordpress 2.0.

Users shouldn’t see much different. But the management back-end is massively upgraded and looks very nice indeed.

If you come across any issues, please add a comment to this post.

(And yes, I know there is a slight displacement to [...]

The host that powers the Flying Nerd has just increased the storage and bandwidth allowances that apply to the $US7.95 per month plan that I use.

I am now entitled to 20GB of storage and 1TB (yes, 1,000GB give or take a bit) of data transfers monthly.

And both of these increase every week. The storage entitlement [...]