Grimsy's Blog http://blog.grimsy.net Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 20 May 2010 04:51:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 A cold weekend in May http://blog.grimsy.net/2010/05/20/a-cold-weekend-in-may/ http://blog.grimsy.net/2010/05/20/a-cold-weekend-in-may/#comments Thu, 20 May 2010 04:51:49 +0000 Geoff Jacobs http://blog.grimsy.net/?p=179 I spent last weekend at our property in Bungonia with friends and family. Thought I’d post a few pics.
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]]> http://blog.grimsy.net/2010/05/20/a-cold-weekend-in-may/feed/ 1 Updating Google Maps in MarsDroid ROM http://blog.grimsy.net/2010/03/23/updating-google-maps-in-marsdroid-rom/ http://blog.grimsy.net/2010/03/23/updating-google-maps-in-marsdroid-rom/#comments Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:57:43 +0000 Geoff Jacobs http://blog.grimsy.net/?p=174 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-brut3-MT.apk
geoff@desktop:~/android-sdk/tools$ ./adb uninstall com.google.android.apps.maps

From there I was able to install successfully from the Market.
The version that shipped with MarsDroid has navigation outside the US, but since I don’t really use it, I wasn’t too fussed.

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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.

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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 a lovely arrangement of grasses and water lilies for the coffin. Mum has posted a photo on her blog here.

He was an amazing Dad. He seemed to know everything and was a great source of knowledge throughout my life and will be inspirational for years to come.

I love you dad.


Surrey Wilfrid Laurence Jacobs 1946 - 2009

Surrey Wilfrid Laurence Jacobs 1946 - 2009

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Sorry about the quality of the photos, my fish don’t seem to like posing so most of them are slightly blurry.

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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 space back (where my other 2 tanks are currently residing).

A few photos of the in-progress set-up:


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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.

Bag of Potatoes

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Check out the details over at her blog.

Catherine Tee
]]> http://blog.grimsy.net/2009/08/25/billabong/feed/ 2 New battery for ClearOne Max Conference Phone http://blog.grimsy.net/2009/08/13/new-battery-for-clearone-max-conference-phone/ http://blog.grimsy.net/2009/08/13/new-battery-for-clearone-max-conference-phone/#comments Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:28:23 +0000 Geoff Jacobs http://blog.grimsy.net/?p=100 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.

ClearOne Max conference phone battery mod

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

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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.

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