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Here is an easy way to use Google Voice for voicemail transcription in Australia, with a bit of help from Skype: Sign up for a new Skype account (it’s best you don’t use your primary one, since you won’t be able to receive calls on it anymore) Add an Australian Online Number to this account [...]

When the opportunity to move to the United States first came up, the number one potential issue in my mind was obtaining a working visa. The U.S. Embassy website makes the process seem incredibly complex, and the only first-hand accounts of the visa application process made it sound very hard and daunting. Plus, these accounts [...]

As some of you may know, I am departing to live and work in San Francisco tomorrow, and I really wanted to do a quick post thanking a few of the people involved in getting me there. For a start, I truly want to publicly thank the guys at Happener. Markus and Greg totally blew [...]

For all those Twitter lovers out there, like me, I’ve put together a little script based on the work found here to calculate some statistics from your Twitter timeline and present them using the Google Charts API. Statistics include: Tweets per hour of the day Total Tweets per day of the week Total Tweets per [...]

I was honestly surprised to read this week that the FIA has ratified a ten-year engine freeze for F1 motor sport. F1 teams must deliver an engine design to the FIA no later than the 31st of March next year, and must stick to that design through the 2017 season. The reasoning the FIA has [...]

This is in response to Kent Newsome’s request for inspiration for his feed reading list (his ‘swivel feeds’ experiment). As you can imagine, most of my 150 or so feeds I read regularly (there are more that I only glance at now and then) are focused on mobile technology, but there are still some that [...]

Save for a couple of hours this morning, I’ve just emerged from bed for the first time today (it is getting late at night here) due to a nasty chest infection and head cold. Now my wonderful other half has hurt her back at work – seems there is no luck for us today. Consider [...]

I don’t know how it is in other countries, but here in Australia there is a general uproar over the closure of a lot of bank branches, especially in rural areas. It is not limited to just one bank, either, all of the banks have come under fire for branch closures. While the case is [...]

Readers from the US may not know what a Christmas cracker (or bonbon) is, so have a quick read here if you are confused. In any event, here is a list, in no particular order, of some of the terrible jokes that came out of my family’s Christmas lunch crackers this year: Q: Why are [...]