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, I’ll describe the TomTom GO 710’s on-road navigation features, and offer some useful tips on how to make them better!

Continue reading ‘In-Car Navigation with a TomTom GO 710 in Australia’

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 long-coveted piece of technology to my car. But finding a unit that would make a good on-road navigator (with good maps, nice screen, useful routing features, and an extensive Points of Interest (POI) database) as well as a good tool for geocaching (offering accurate coordinates and useful off-road navigation features) would prove to be a challenge.

Continue reading ‘Navigation, Geocaching and More with a TomTom GO 710′

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 that almost prevented me from making the move was my need to connect to the shared printer at the office.

Continue reading ‘Connect to a Network Printer on a Windows XP Server in Windows Vista’

My sandwich had bugs in it today.

I ate most of it before I noticed.

Live bugs.

All I’m going to say is this: Nurses who give out test results over the phone should make sure not to mix up the names of common ailments with those of dangerous sexually transmitted diseases.

There are three Sundays left in Impro Melbourne’s Theatresports™ season, and at this point its looking like I’ll appear in all three shows, but if you were hoping to see me and Jess play this year your time is running out! Tickets for the Grand Final on November 26th are sold out, and November 12th and 19th each have only a handful of seats remaining.

We’d love to see some familiar faces in the audience over the next couple of weeks. Book now while you can!