Yes, I’m Canadian

In my last post, I introduced the TomTom GO 710 GPS receiver (GPSr). I recently bought this device for car navigation but have since found it to be a surprisingly versatile gadget! With the right collection of tweaks and add-ons, it can become a great device for geocaching, and a lot more besides.
In this post, […]

If you’ve been watching my Flickr photos lately, you’ll have noticed that Jess and I are getting into geocaching, the world-wide treasure hunt where participants follow GPS coordinates to the locations of hidden caches of goodies.
The one essential tool for geocaching is a GPS receiver (GPSr), which gave me the perfect excuse to add this […]

For better or worse, Windows Vista is out today and I’ll shortly be moving to it as the primary operating system on both my work and home PCs. Aside from compatibility glitches in certain Adobe applications, everything I need to work on Vista does (if a little shakily, in the case of Firefox).
The one issue […]

Sitting in my hotel room in Oviedo soaking up my last few hours of expensive hotel wireless, I can’t help but feel like I haven’t taken full advantage of my time here in Spain. Before I return for another visit, I definitely need to learn a smattering of Spanish—enough to order food at restaurants other […]

Web Directions South has just wrapped in Sydney, but while I wait for the shower in our hotel room to be free I figured I should record a few rapidly fading memories.
Having attended last year’s Web Essentials 05 as a vicarious observer, getting to contribute to the conversation this year as a speaker alongside the […]

When using the Firefox extension to post a link to the del.icio.us social bookmarking service, I’ve often typed long, informative descriptions into the “Notes” field, only to see that text cut short when I submit the link.
It turns out this is a bit of lazy programming on the part of the fine folks at del.icio.us. […]

My interview about SitePoint and our new AJAX book is available for the next four weeks in MP3 format on the Byte Into It web site.
More permanently, you can also grab it here: RRR AJAX Interview (MP3, 10MB).

I’ll be appearing on RRR’s Byte Into It tonight (102.7FM in Melbourne) between 7PM and 8PM to talk about AJAX and plug SitePoint’s latest book, Build Your Own AJAX Web Applications. There is a podcast feed for the show, or you can just download the episode from the archive if you prefer. I’ll mirror it […]

Like a good nerd, I spent my Saturday installing the latest pre-release operating system on my computer. Having bought a 64-bit processor several years ago, now, I figured it was about time to try running a 64-bit operating system on it, so I downloaded the 64-bit version of Windows Vista Beta 2.
The insallation went reasonably […]