There are six reasons why I enjoy working in help-desk environments: I am real, I will listen, I will support, and either resolve or escalate your issue, and I enjoy the work. Save Save
Essential Security in Windows 8
Interesting fact: There's no need to install Microsoft Security Essential on Windows 8: According to Microsoft... In Windows 8.1 and Windows RT 8.1, Windows Defender provides the same level of protection against malware as Microsoft Security Essentials. You can't use Microsoft Security Essentials with Windows 8 and Windows RT, but you don't need to—Windows Defender is... Continue Reading →
My Ten Favourite Photographs (This Week So Far)
I've had a few great opportunities to shoot interesting and varied photographs this week. Of the many family, portrait, abstract, and landscape photographs I have shot with both my Canon 50D and my Samsung Galaxy Note II, these are my favourite. Well, so far. See if you can pick which were shot by Canon or... Continue Reading →
Bookmarks of Interest
Despite two real-world events today, I've still managed to get onto the online world to visit and read a few world wide web sites of personal interest ... and here they are for others to read. OK, they are really published here so I don't have to bookmark them on my computer. Since Deli.ci.ious changed... Continue Reading →
Reminiscing (1996)
I almost remember it like it was yesterday, yet suddenly feel so old. The wife and I had been dating about 6 months. We had spent one evening looking after the young three daughters of my wife's Aunt, plus about nine of their friends, taking them all for dinner to local McDonalds. It was the... Continue Reading →
Bicycles in Adelaide
We are all enduring that time of the Adelaide calendar when bicycles encircle the Adelaide city & descend from the surrounding hills for the SANTOS Tour Down Under. So I felt it time to wheel out my photographs of two-wheeled non-motorised cyclists, professional and amateur, enjoying riding purely for the fun of it! Last but not... Continue Reading →
Capturing Architectural History through Photography
Much earlier this evening, as I was traversing the Adelaide CBD seeking a bus to escape the ropes of employment, I spotted the remains of a non-heritage building. The demolition crew were surveying the fine mess they had made, the dust settling around them ... so I took the moment to sneak a few photos... Continue Reading →
Twenty Dollars can buy you four hours of Motivation
Gotta thank the Coromandel Valley Rotary Club for having a plant sale yesterday afternoon (Sat 3rd November 2012). After buying five native plants for $19.50, both my wife and I were inspired to dig up the front yard. Four hours of digging up soil, raking it around and digging up weeds was painful. Here's how... Continue Reading →
The Entrepreneurial Life of Stephen Mitchell 