Category Archives: Internet

Using Google cache to view blocked (by server) pages

The US military has an project called JRAC (Joint Rapid Airfield Construction) that has some of our gear as part of the solution. Recently a US colleague emailed a URL to read the blog posts of the current trial in … Continue reading

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Tax done online

Woot! I just did my personal IR3 tax return online, all very painless. Quite satisfying really. Until I remembered I’d not mention donations.. luckily donations rebates are submitted separately on a IR526 Thumbs up for the IRD and making it … Continue reading

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Where has my SPAM gone?

I’ve been letting my spam collect in my Gmail account, but presently I’ve been getting low volume, and I want to know why? Here the graph of daily count the last 300 SPAM, <PICTURE LOST> See, less SPAM, and I … Continue reading

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Google Finance and stock splits

Trimble has just had a stock split, and Google Finance just doesn’t deal with it correctly. The graph looks correct until you look at the pan back a few days, then you see start of day spikes to the old … Continue reading

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187th Simeon

Eric was talking about wrongness that geek bloggers vs. Grammy winners, and that due to the nature of the web that geeks ranked higher than real world popular personalities. So inspired by the potential I went search for my ranking … Continue reading

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