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 big and ugly (I’ve hot glued it to the phone) but it works amazingly well.

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.

A while ago I read a blog post on drvino.com about making wine bottle terrariums. The post was inspired by the work of Paula Hayes.
I thought it looked like fun so made a few. One of my favourites is in a Spring Valley bottle. Check out the pics:

So over the years, we have some old desktops in the office which aren’t really good enough to use for development any more. I’ve started breathing new life into them by using them to backup our Subversion repositories by using svnsync.
By setting up cron jobs to sync every x minutes or even hours you can have a huge amount of redundancy for next to no cost.
The read only mirrors are also handy for other applications that create load on your repositories (build servers etc) so I use a near real-time mirror to run trac and our Bamboo server from.

Just finished version 0.1 of my BambooTracPlugin
It adds items from your Bamboo rss feed into your trac timeline.

It’s basically just a hacked up version of the HudsonTracPlugin but I’m still proud of it

Feedback is welcomed, not sure how active I’ll be with development though so if anyone wants to take ownership (or co-ownership) of it just let me know.