It’s past midnight. I’m sitting on the lounge watching the Monaco Grand Prix. And I’m devastated to have just seen Mark Webber’s car fail – again.

Mark put in a terriffic qualifying performance to score third on the grid (which became second after Michael Schumacher was sent to the back for a ‘professional foul’). His qualifying [...]

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Die, CRT, die!

At Macquarie Anglican Churches we support a number of missionaries in various parts of the world.

One of the challenges of supporting missionaries is the maintenance of interest amongst the congregations: it’s easy to lose contact with people half a world away. We’ve tried (with varying degrees of success) to use multimedia in church to build [...]

UPDATE 15 June 06: I tried the updated version of this utility. It still produces screen corruptions in PowerPoint. Tried on home PC and laptop. Same problem on both. Recommendation now fully withdrawn. Shame.

UPDATE 5 June 06: There’s an updated version of the software available from the link below. I haven’t tried it (yet). If [...]

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Fuji Xerox has a $200 ‘cash back’ promotion on their popular Docuprint C525A colour laser printer. Details here. If you are looking for a colour laser printer, this could be quite a good deal.

I remember very clearly the night (Australian time) F1 driver Ayrton Senna died.

I didn’t have a lot of love for Senna out of the car, but I admired his driving tremendously. He was blisteringly quick, and could control a car like a seal balances a ball on its nose (eh?). His skill was perhaps best [...]

I love a bargain. Who doesn’t?

Well, here’s a bargain that I can’t use… Maybe you can.

Uncle Steve (that’s what he calls himself) at Eastwood Hifi (one of Sydney’s few remaining specialist hifi stores) has some Celestion AVP305 5.1 speaker systems available at the special price of $990 (marked down from $3,199).

Regular visitors to this site will know that the Nerd not only flies—he edits video (for fun, not money).

I have two video editing programs on my PC at present—both from Taiwanese software house Ulead.

For heavy-duty editing with maximum versatility and control (and complexity), I use MediaStudio Pro 8 (MSP). As I’ve said before, I reckon [...]