Archive for April, 2007

Posting from Microsoft Office Word 2007

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

This is neat. Microsoft Office 2007 knows how to post to a WordPress site. I’ve prepared this post by typing into Microsoft Office Word 2007, and simply pressing the ‘publish’ button.

It just works!

It’s just a fun photo

Sunday, April 15th, 2007

What happens when your kids are banned from using the computer for a day? They have to use their imaginations to play.

Stunning gliding video

Friday, April 13th, 2007

(It’s not like this in Australia, folks…)

Video magazine for Australia

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

For years, Australian newsagents’ shelves were graced by the magazine Video Camera. At the end of 2006, the publishers closed down Video Camera and terminated the contract of the editor. As one who has some interest in things video, I was a little bit sad.

I’ve just learned that David Hague, formerley the editor of Video [...]

Easter Bunny is ‘too Christian’. Eh?

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

Now this is really silly.

A school in Rhode Island (USA, where else?) has banned the Easter Bunny for being ‘too Christian’. They have replaced him/her with ‘Peter Rabbit’.

Maybe I’m missing the point, gentle readers, but it seems to me that the Easter Bunny:

represents a crass commercialisation that adds nothing to the most significant of Christian [...]

Easter 2007: It is finished

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

John reports Jesus’ final words on the cross as: “It is finished“.

What did Jesus mean? What was the ‘it’ that was finished? And why does ‘it’ matter?

Keith Baker of Macquarie Anglican Churches spoke powerfully and clearly on this subject on Good Friday. Download this file to listen to what he had to say.

flyingnerd.com upgraded to WordPress 2.1.3

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

Latest bug fixes and security code. Please post a comment if you find anything broken.

Beyond 10,000

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

Traffic here on flyingnerd.com seems to have picked up markedly in the last few weeks.

I noted back in February when unique site visits passed 6,000. That milestone took around 18 months (around 330 visits per month). In the last two months, the total has raced ahead to 10,000 site visits (2,000 visits per month in [...]

Another screen shot utility

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

Window Clippings looks like a nice utility for capturing windows in either XP or Vista environments.

ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite - don’t use a download manager

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

Checkpoint has released an update to my Internet security suite-of-choice: ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite (ZAISS). So I downloaded it, of course.

This is just cute (warning: furry animals)

Sunday, April 1st, 2007