RIP Ayrton Senna

1 May, 2008 (10:48) | Karting, Racing | No comments

Today marks 14 years since the life of the great Ayrton Senna was claimed at Imola in the 1994 Formula 1 Grand Prix.

Still today, I marvel at Senna’s brilliance as a driver and believe that even today, he has never been matched.

Rest in Peace, Ayrton Senna.

Apple FileVault and Apache HTTP Server

26 April, 2008 (08:57) | Apple, Security, UNIX | No comments

Last night before heading off to bed I decided to try Apple’s FileVault encryption on my MacBook Pro in an attempt to protect the data in my laptop’s home directory. Setup was simple and painless, and this morning I was presented with a login screen to allow me to login to my freshly encrypted home drive.

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Looking for work..

11 April, 2008 (10:43) | Personal | No comments

So, I just found out my 12 month contract wont be renewed in June, due to a lack of work coming in around that time.

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Another PHP5 Framework?

9 April, 2008 (16:39) | PHP | 13 comments

I’ve been working on an Object Oriented PHP5 Framework in my spare time since before many of the current frameworks were around, it’s been around 2 years now since I started coding (mainly in my spare time). I’m now considering releasing the code to the world as Open Source (licence undecided as yet) to see what happens but would like some opinions from the PHP Elite.
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Building a Solaris 10 SPAM Box, part 1.

29 March, 2008 (10:01) | Solaris, UNIX | No comments

Not the SPAM you’re deleting from your Inbox every day, the SPAM that is comprised of Solaris, PHP, Apache and MySQL. These articles are for my own usage more than anything, but perhaps someone else will find it useful so I though I’d blog it.

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iPhone, again!

19 February, 2008 (17:27) | Apple, Personal, UNIX | No comments

so here I am posting this from the couch on my brand new Apple iPhone! Its everything I expected, its fantastic! Predictive text is great, but safari dost work with the wordpress wysiwyg editor. Does everything else incredibly well!

iPhone!

5 February, 2008 (09:08) | Apple, Personal | No comments

My iPhone has been shipped by my mate in the USA; it should be here within the next week or so! :D

Next step, to unlock it and get it working here in Australia :)

Project Budget cuts suck.

23 January, 2008 (23:11) | Personal | No comments

Working for a semi-government owned software development company has been everything I’d hoped it would be; until now..

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First meeting of the year.

21 January, 2008 (18:45) | Karting, Racing | No comments

Yesterday the 20th of January was the first meeting of the 2008 Sprint Karting Season. Read more »

Karting Season 2008, Revised

15 January, 2008 (12:04) | IPRA, Karting, Mazda, Personal, Racing, Rotary | No comments

Since my previous post on my goals for season 2008, there has been some changes in the expected class competitor numbers - so hence my goals have changed :)

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