http://blog.akb.com.au Just another guy on the net.. Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:50:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For the past 3 days, my Thunderbird has not been able to download mail. It would just sit there trying to download the first email. I tried selectively disabling 1 pop account at a time, disabling AV scanning, moving my profile from one disk to another - none of it worked. ... http://blog.akb.com.au/2008/07/07/thunderbird-giving-me-the-sh1ts/ As published by watoday.com.au here: "Microsoft halts sales of XP". With XP gone in 2009, does this have the potential make 2009 the year of the Linux Desktop - as previously coined for every year since 2001? Let's hope so :) http://blog.akb.com.au/2008/07/01/microsoft-halts-sales-of-xp/ Call me cheap, I know I am, and call me a winging pom (my mum was english): As I do almost every day of the week, today I went on my 10 minute walk to the local Subway store to get a Veggie Delight. The reason I eat Veggie Delights and ... http://blog.akb.com.au/2008/07/01/subway/ The trailer for Bill Maher's documentary Religulous was released the other week, check it out here: Religulous Trailer. It doesn't reveal much, but like most of Maher's work it looks hiliarious, interesting and educational at the same time. Unfortunately, they've pushed the release date back to 3rd October (was suppose ... http://blog.akb.com.au/2008/06/16/religulous-trailer-out/ Last week (25th May 2008), the Libertarian party voted Bob Barr as their Presidential nomination, over Mike Gravel and another dozen or so candidates (article here). The full results have been published on the wikipedia page here: 2008 Libertarian National Convention. Following the outcome of these results, Gravel decided to end ... http://blog.akb.com.au/2008/06/04/the-end-of-gravels-political-career/ Like most people, I've had a mobile (in some shape or brick form) for almost a decade now.. Anyways, last week, I bought a new phone due to the speaker on my old Panasonic VS2 dying. I had it for a good 2 years & 6 months, so it got ... http://blog.akb.com.au/2008/04/14/noobie-mobile-guide/ One of the hobby projects I've been working on these last few weeks, is a wireless hotspot for the multi storied apartment building, my Dad Manages. There were lots of offers by various companies to setup and maintain this sort of thing, but most of them involved a revenue sharing system ... http://blog.akb.com.au/2008/03/25/hotspot-project/ As some of you would know by now, Hillary Clinton has surprised most, and won just about all the primaries and caucuses voted for today in the American states of Ohio, Texas, Rhode Island, and Vermont. It's a pretty big come back for her, since Obama had won the ... http://blog.akb.com.au/2008/03/05/super-tuesday-2/ I can't believe how fast each week is going.. Before the week actually starts its already over.. I guess that means either I'm getting old, or I'm too busy to notice... Anyway, last weekend was the Australian 2007 election, which saw Kevin Rudd voted in as the next Prime Minister of ... http://blog.akb.com.au/2007/11/30/november-in-review/ While, it was a busy week (for which I'm a little late in posting), there's unusually not much to post.. Wrote a mini sub-module for Epublish sorting options in the Drupal Views Module. Finally setup a secure credit card payment system for my business. On the less work focused front.. after some resistance, ... http://blog.akb.com.au/2007/10/28/week-review-43/