By popular demand (well, two people asked), I’ve added a photo of The Deck to my article about rainwater tanks.

Enjoy.

Once again the FIA (Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile) – global motorsport’s governing body – is conducting an on-line survey about Formula 1. You can access the survey here.

Diet Coke + Mentos = ?

Check this out.

See?

A few weeks ago, one of the marketing reps for Ulead Systems, a maker of video editing software, was in Australia to launch a new version of one of their apps. Tobie (the marketing guy) participates in a video editing discussion list that I read, and I met him on that list. As a former [...]

Here’s a new topic for the Flying Nerd.

You’ve probably notice that I nejoy writing about technology. Formula 1 sneaks in as it’s probably the sport that uses the highest level of technology.

Well, here’s a change of pace – but it’s an interesting use of a combination of simple technologies.

[Lots of pictures on following page – [...]

Ulead, creator of my preferred video editing software, has been through turbulent times in Australia.

After many years being distributed by Company A, they changed over to Company B. Result: they almost disappeared from the Australian market – it was almost impossible to find (current) listings for Ulead software with Australian resellers.

Well, Ulead saw the problem, [...]