A couple of months ago I started spending a bit of time on Drivetribe.com, which is the website owned by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May – formerly of Top Gear fame, and the hosts of The Grand Tour. As well as finding the moderators and (most) users extremely welcoming and hospitable I have […]

I recently took advantage of one of the newest additions to the museum, and so got some pictures of the AMAZING Bugatti Veyron. Birdwood Mill April 2018

The Jaguar National Rally was held in South Australia this year. Sunday 15th April had most of the entrants displaying their cars at the amazing National Motor Museum in Birdwood. As is my wont, camera on the ready, and off we go. I got pictures of *most* of the cars, but the weather wasn’t very […]

8th April 2018, and the Austin 7 Club held a FunKhana on Houghton Oval.  Events included Delivering a rolled up newspaper into a tyre, catching balls, driving around in circles maintaining tension on a string, and describing a 360 circle with a cardboard box over your head (see the pictures!) Austin 7 Club Funkhana – […]

The South Australian Vintage and Veteran Car Club hosted a free display of some fabulous vehicles in the Adelaide Parklands.  I popped along and took a few pictures – Enjoy! Show me the Pictures!

We have arrived home from another holiday – The United Kingdom this time.. Lot of photos at : United Kingdom 2017 And I managed to squeeze in a few Car Museums that rev-heads might like :- Kilgarvan Motor Museum 2017 Bo’Ness Motor Museum 2017 Lakeland Motor Museum 2017 The British Motor Museum 2017 Donington Motor Museum […]

I recently picked up a few Fujitsu D2607 RAID Controllers (cheap off eBay!) to replace the Rocket RAID controller in my NAS, which I have come to distrust as it has at times been a little flaky (plus, they have never provided a single firmware update, and support if asking anything is non-existent). The Fujitsus […]

I headed out with camera again, this time to the Classic Adelaide.. Classic Adelaide 2016 Enjoy 🙂

Dani bought me a new DSLR for my birthday, and I’ve gone crazy taking pictures 🙂 Check out the recent holiday to Europe, including visits to the 2 Ferrari Museums in Modena, and the Schlumpf Collection in Mulhouse (France). I also took some pictures while they were setting up for the 2016 Classic Adelaide.

Here’s a small ( but annoying) problem which has arisen a few times for me, and it always takes me a while to either figure it out or find somebody else who has.. Opening a new Tab in Google Chrome suddenly defaults my location to Google.uae instead of google.com.au. The solution is simple – try […]

You may have heard of Cryptolocker or Ransomware. If you haven’t then the chances are that you will soon enough, possibly the hard way. What is it? Ransomware is big business, and a major risk and potential expense to everybody who uses a Windows Computer. Ransomware is a program that will encrypt every file on […]

Whilst I’m generally really impressed with the quality and function of Gigabyte Motherboards, I’ve now encountered the same issue with 3 separate ones – an i5 and two i7’s, running Windows or Linux. The issue is that you shut down the computer, everything goes off.. then starts right back up again! This appears to be […]

I’m running through one of my cars tidying some bits and pieces up. I dropped the wheels off to clean the calipers and suspension, and didn’t realise just how bad they were. It doesn’t look like they’ve EVER been cleaned Covered in grime and dirt, really ground in and built up. This is a job […]

I found a great little plugin this week. Titled “WordPress Backup to Dropbox” is free, with a couple of “premium” addons if you want to zip up your backups or receive email notification on success or failure. It initially backs up all designated folders, and then on a schedule you determine it runs an incremental […]

After years of providing a first class environment for the residents of West Beach, the West Beach Trust has moved under new management, which appears to have a completely self-serving, empire building agenda. Issue 1: The beautiful public golf course has been decimated by the development of a new Baseball facility (I’ll come back to […]

Very unusual sunset at West Beach last night.. [pe2-image src=”http://lh4.ggpht.com/-uZQOL5bILqI/VIzJr_v0_XI/AAAAAAAA8U8/0mBIE4exAlw/s144-c-o/20141213_201016.jpg” href=”https://picasaweb.google.com/116730948297768793432/Blog#6092466153609035122″ caption=”” type=”image” alt=”20141213_201016.jpg” ]

A couple of weeks ago I invested a massive $12 in a very cool gadget called an SDR (go look it up!) I initially set up a piece of free software called Visual Radio, but have since added the output from my SDR to a growing network.. See plane.watch, scroll over to Adelaide, and watch […]

For quite a while now, I’ve had a personal Weather Station running. With the availability of low-cost solutions with a PC interface, I recently updated and put my Station on-line. The page is updated every 5 minutes 24/7, and has a comprehensive history also. Click Here to check it out! The site also automatically updates a page […]

I had a few pictures sent to me this week – that I just had to share  🙂     And one Non-doggy one..  

We stumbled across this lot while we were out walking the dogs this morning.. Surprisingly enough, it was the Golden Retriever Club (which, like most clubs, I have studiously avoided!) Seemed a nice bunch of people, apart from the obligatory crabby old bitch who got pissed off that my dog looked at her dog, and […]