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Quotes to live by

November 11th, 2009 · Comments

These are my favourite quotes… what are yours?
- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. – Albert Einstein
- "All that is too complex is unnecessary, and it is simple that is needed" – Mikhail Kalashnikov, inventor of the AK47 Kalashnikov assault rifle, which has been in continual use since 1947. [...]

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NAB finally gets iPhone / Blackberry internet banking

October 28th, 2009 · Comments

Well, to be precise, it's iPhone / Blackberry / Nokia internet banking — they're the platforms that NAB has tested with (but NAB says "not all models" … only more recent ones, as older models have less capable web browsers.)
You just have to go to nab.com.au in your mobile phone web browser and you'll find [...]

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I rode the Google staff shuttle bus!

September 13th, 2009 · Comments

I'm on a Gray Line bus out of San Francisco, en route to Yosemite National Park. There is FREE wifi on the bus – amazing! San Francisco really would be the place to live if you were tech minded.
The bus driver just commented that the reason this bus has WiFi is that it does [...]

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Tags: Personal · Telecommunications · Travel