Grimsy's Blog

A cold weekend in May

I spent last weekend at our property in Bungonia with friends and family. Thought I'd post a few pics.

Updating Google Maps in MarsDroid ROM

I'm running the MarsDroid ROM on an HTC Magic from Three in Australia. I saw that a new version of Google Maps came out (4.1.0) that I wanted to try, but I couldn't update via the market. This is what I did to get it running: geoff@desktop:~/android-sdk/tools$ ./adb root geoff@desktop:~/android-sdk/tools$ ./adb remount geoff@desktop:~/android-sdk/tools$ ./adb shell ls /system/app/ | grep map maps3.4.0-brut3-MT.apk geoff@desktop:~/android-sdk/tools$ ./adb shell rm /system/app/maps3.4.0-...

Trying out Tynt

I've just added a new script to my pages from tynt.com. Our patent pending Tynt Insight technology tracks what’s being copied off your site and automatically adds a link back to your content with every paste. Read more: http://www.tynt.com/#ixzz0by1i2hgN Apparently it works with images too. Free sign-up and fairly painless to add a line to the wordpress template.

Saying goodbye to a father and a friend

On the 26th of November, my dad died. He'd been battling various forms of cancer for just over a year and as much as we're saddened by his passing, we're also relieved that he doesn't have to suffer any more. Yesterday (Monday 7th December, 2009) We held the funeral for family and friends at St Cuthbert's Anglican Church in Carlton. Many thanks to all of those who came along. It was great to see so many faces, many of which I haven't seen in years. Staff at the Botanic Gardens organised ...

More fishtank photos

Just a few more photos now that I have the tank up and running and my fish moved across. Sorry about the quality of the photos, my fish don't seem to like posing so most of them are slightly blurry.

A new fish tank

I've started to set up a new fish tank in my lounge room this week. It's a new 3' tank on a stand that I got from a friend. I've been reinforcing and fixing up the stand over the last couple of months, and it's good to finally see it being used and holding some weight. I've put some shell grit in the tank and will hopefully be adding some crushed coral shortly to break it up a bit. I'll move my existing fish across in a few weeks if all goes well. It'll be nice to have my kitchen bench spa...

A Bag of Potatoes

Finally found a use for those 'environmentally friendly' bags that you get from Coles and Woolworths. A while ago I saw an episode of Jamie At Home where his gardener (Brian) planted potatoes directly into a bag of potting mix. It inspired me to try this out. I basically put some potting mix in a bag, stuck some potatoes in there, watered them and waited a few weeks. They're outgrowing their current home though and I'll be donating them to my sister's new vegetable patch soon.

billabong…

Just found out that my cousin Catherine (http://myfolklover.typepad.com) has made a T-Shirt with Billabong. Check out the details over at her blog.

New battery for ClearOne Max Conference Phone

We have a ClearOne Max conference phone at work that has been in need of a new battery for a while. When we do get new batteries for it, they never seem to last as long as they should and always need to be ordered in. Solution: Use an RC battery pack. The battery in the conference unit is a 7.2V 1800mAh NiMH battery pack. The RC battery pack is 3000mAH so we get much longer out of it on a single charge. We're still able to use the normal charger that came with the phone too. Sure it might be ...

Moving the blog…

So I've just moved my blog to my own domain (yay!). My old one should automatically forward to http://blog.grimsy.net now. I'm using wordpress and am getting Free DNS from freedns.afraid.org.