Today eDonkey, a popular file sharing network, was shut down by the RIAA after a settlement of $30 million. The eDonkey 2000 software will be no longer distributed, and the servers shut down. Of course this doesn’t affect the people using eMule, the open source clone of eDonkey which has the option to use other [...]

Something odd is going on …. on Monday this week there was shocking news that Steve Irwin, the crocodile hunter famous for making Americans think Australians say “Crikey!” all the time, had been fatally wounded by a stingray. The death of Steve was very unexpected, but I could handle it. Then yesterday, Peter Brock, the [...]

While I was away in Melbourne working at Microsoft (read my earlier posts), I purchased a 3.5″ removable hard disk enclosure, in the hope that eventually I would buy a hard disk for it and use it. About a month later, I noticed Scorptec had a sale on their Seagate 160GB drives, for the relatively-low price [...]