There's been a lot of noise lately about Google's new Chrome browser. I've obviously downloaded it (I wouldn't be a tech freak if I didn't). Personally, I'm a little underwhelmed. There's nothing really there that hasn't been done before: tabs on top, ch… more »

That's the question I've been asking myself recently. On the 4th of February, my telephone and ASDL went down. Now, it had been raining a lot that day, and there had also been some minor flooding in my street (which I'm sure was due to some pavement work… more »

Looks like I'm not the only one advocating buying your petrol on a Tuesday in Sydney. Here's a recent article from The Age, where the ACCC† boss says basically the same thing I did in my post. He goes on to say that there is no "obvious evidence" of c… more »

The .NET Base Class Library team have a couple of posts on their blog, about the new DateTimeOffset class in the BCL (title "A Brief History of DateTime" and "A Brief History of DateTime Follow-up"). In those posts, they go to some lengths to describe… more »

Seems crazy, right? After all, the PS3 has a Blu-Ray player built right in, so why would you pay twice as much, and get only the Blu-Ray player? I mean the PS3 is an awesome console (not sure it's $999 awesome, but still awesome)... so how on earth is a… more »