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Correspondence with Property Manager LJ Hooker Belmont WA – Tenant leaves 9 Jul 2013 | 08:46 am
Having recently received my bond and completed my transactions with LJ Hooker Belmont WA, I thought I would share my last agent property manager facts. On 24th January 2013, my LJ Hooker Belmont WA P...
Asus Slate EP121/B121 disassemble and BIOS replacement 7 Jun 2013 | 09:10 am
Recently, I upgraded my Asus Slate EP121 to the latest 704 BIOS version, through the inbuilt BIOS flash utility and unfortunately I bricked it (failed to power on or boot). It was out of warranty, and...
HP MicroServer N40L and Gigabit HD 6450 horizontal flickering line 7 May 2013 | 05:15 am
I recently purchased a HP MicroServer N40L and half-height Gigabit Radeon HD 6450, after installing Windows 8 I noticed that a third from the screen was a flickering white horizontal line, noticeable ...
Calculate last business day in month with Excel 2 Apr 2013 | 06:54 am
Here is a quick post to calculate the last business day in a month taking into account holidays. This is useful for with finance calculations and wanting to know a bank’s last banking day in a month. ...
Tool to remove VGA/DVI mounting screws – 5mm Hex socket 8 Feb 2013 | 12:22 pm
I was salvaging a number of motherboards from a server and noticed that the VGA mounting screws were connected to the chassis. Done with time-consuming pliers I decided to investigate if there was a s...
Home loans – Fixed vs. Variable interest rates 8 Feb 2013 | 06:08 am
I saw an interesting chart on Canstar which plotted the history of RBA Cash Rate, variable and 3-year fixed interest rates. This data is all available on the Reserve Bank of Australia website, look fo...
Family Day, Doha Qatar 16 Dec 2012 | 03:48 pm
Family Day in Doha, Qatar is a common occurrence on Fridays (the weekend), were main shopping centres refuse entry to single males without family. There is quite obvious discrimination with south-east...
ComputerSphere – modding the original base to include a DVD burner 2 Dec 2012 | 05:25 am
I thought for a change in scenery, I would look at modding the original square base. The square base was an attachment that could be used to support the Videosphere, it wasn’t needed if the Videospher...
Lazy Load v2 – delay image loading Nivo Slider v3 23 Nov 2012 | 06:29 am
Nivo Slider is a great image slider which I recently implemented on one of my WordPress blogs, the problem with the current version is all images need to be loaded first prior to running the Nivo Slid...
PHP eval equivalent to include 14 Nov 2012 | 04:37 am
The PHP include statement includes and evaluates a specific file, not what if we want to modify that file first before including, i.e. a version template file. Well this can be done with PHP eval. I f...
