marxy's musing on technology

A phone call came in this evening presumably from India. The woman explained that the computer in our house had some problems and they were ...

A lovely day for a trip to Dural. The photographer in me appreciates the nice side light. Here's Tim, VK2ZTM: And Peter, VK2EMU: Peter s...

I've been mourning the death of true HD (1080p) broadcast television as one by one the stations re-allocate their digital bandwidth to c...

Gartner group is predicting that the war between mobile phone operating systems will end with Google's Android on top. I decided to for...

Do not watch if you suffer from vertigo. An earlier copy of this has been removed so it's likely this one will disappear soon too. U...

Dropped in to Winterfest today. It was a stunning day and I took a few shots with the HTC Desire. Here's the Home Brew table where I dis...

I had a chance to chat about the broadband policies of the government and the coalition this morning on ABC Radio National. You can hear it ...

Digital Radio Mondiale is the digital radio system for short wave. There are few broadcasters and even fewer receivers. Here's one of t...

Why would I need an ebook reader when I already have an iPad? The iPad is a fantastic device and works wonderfully indoors, but I wouldn...

A new toy arrived today, a MiniVNA Pro . It's a very nice bit of gear and comes with calibration loads. I've failed to get it going ...

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...