marxy's musing on technology

A great application for Android is WarDrive . It records the GPS location of wireless networks it sees and exports the data as KML which can...

I'm enjoying having the 24 hour ABC TV news channel around. If you visit the Ultimo centre it's right there in the foyer: Presumably...

I'm a news addict but the house is overrun with paper and it's time to go electronic. News Limited did a fine job, right at the iPad...

I've loved the iPhone 3GS and was ready to pick up an iPhone 4 but I currently have a bad feeling about them and given that my life is s...

I was impressed when Alastair tweeted reporting that he's got IPv6 internet connectivity working thanks to #internode and #openwrt. Rece...

The python global interpreter lock (GIL) has not worried me up until recently when I've been deploying applications on quite well equipp...

A conversation at the recent Pycon in Sydney got me thinking about reducing the base load power use at our house. Today I purchased and inst...

Attended a very well organised and content rich Google Developer Day that hi-lighted the new Google Maps version 3 API (version 2 is now de...

I've just finished a weekend at the first PyCon held in Sydney. A fantastic conference, well done to everyone involved. Here's Mark...

Finally, I managed to visit the famous Kurrajong Radio Museum and catch up with the friendly proprietor Ian O'Tool VK2ZIO. We'd met...

To counteract the long days of sitting in an office staring at a computer screen full of code I'm having another weekend away, this time...

We're a bit slow on this one but have just caught up with a fantastic show out of New Zealand called "Seven periods with Mr Gormsby...

I've just returned from a weekend away with two other hams about four hours west of Sydney. The country and the site was lovely: We erec...

Another great meeting out at the WIA shed at Dural today. Stephen VK2BLK has been busy mixing integrated circuits and valves: His shortwave ...

Netbooks are great, but sometimes 600 vertical pixels isn't enough. Ubuntu includes screen sharing but it's just a mirror of the sma...

Regrettably the iBook store still only appears to have free books this morning. It's great for project Gutenberg as it will draw many n...