Archive for November, 2005

Bank Usability

November 28th, 2005

The number of bank transfer forms that won’t accept ###### for a BSB number but it will accept ###-### is astounding. What ever happened to being liberal in what you accept?


Appendicitis and all things Appendix

November 27th, 2005

I’ve had an interesting week, last Sunday I was feeling pretty sick and wrecked all day long with a bit of vomiting really early in the morning, I didn’t think too much of it thinking that it was probably just a bit of food poisoning and that I would get over it relatively quickly.
Well I […]


The Thing About Platforms

November 17th, 2005

The thing about platforms is you can stand ontop of them, or throw yourself off.
Related links: 1, 2, 3 and 4.


Open Office Preferences Dialog

November 16th, 2005

The OpenOffice 2 preferences dialog boxes are downright terrible. To select which document format to Save As, you have to select “Text Document” from one dropdown box and then change a second dropdown to “Microsoft Word”, then to edit the preference for Calc, you have to change the first dropdown box, which automatically changes the […]


Multiple Monitors on Ubuntu

November 7th, 2005

I’ve spent a couple of days trying to get multiple monitors working on my desktop at home. I wanted to get it working in a similar way to Windows with Ultramon. This basically puts an individual task bar on your extra monitors. While there isn’t any real documentation on how to do this at the […]


Spike Magazine

November 5th, 2005

A new Australian volleyball magazine called Spike has just started being published. While the website isn’t really too pretty, the publication is great. It has a good combination of beach and indoor and the articles are well written and informative. I hope they keep up the good work.