Michael Kratz

Last week at WWDC2006, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the replacement of the Apple Power Macintosh G5 with the Mac Pro (as if we didn’t see that one coming!). Personally I think this machine is going to proove quite popular, not just because its ‘new’, and not just because its now on Intel like the rest of the Apple lineup. Read more

If you’re like me, and you make extensive use of Apple’s iCal to manage your daily scheduling, if you’ve previously wanted to sync it with a central Sun Calendar server, up until a short time ago, you’d have been out of luck. Read more

If you’re using Wordpress and you’ve turned on WP-Cache and now getting problems with blank pages coming up, check out this page for the solution. It worked for me!

Apparently it’s to do with some syntax changes between PHP4 and PHP5, which WP-Cache has not accounted for yet, due to it being written for PHP4.

About a week ago, I saw a wierd advert on a website for a “Cryo Kennel“. Thinking, thats wierd… lets see what thats all about, I clicked on it, much to my surprise, I ended up at http://www.scifi.com/eureka/.

Turns out it was a quirky advertisement for a new Science Fiction TV series called Eureka. Read more

Adam, one of my work colleagues, has some really nifty weather and climate related graphs on his website. The data is parsed from information on the Australian Bureau of Meterology website, and extends back for up to 2 years. Which makes it really handy for seeing changes in seasons, trends and averages of temperature, rainfall, etc.

Check out the graphs here: http://www.bugman.cx/weather/

Also, on the topic of the Bureau of Meterology, if you haven’t already discovered, they make available on their website a significant amount of climate and weather information, including Rain/Precipitation Radar, this is my favourite feature of the BoM site.

Quite a while back, over a year ago infact, I came across this wonderful little program called CCleaner (short for Crap Cleaner). It’s a small freeware Windows program which ‘cleans the crap’ out of Windows.

What I like about it, is that it takes all the tedious cleaning tasks one would ordinarily do manually and bundles them all up into an efficient and easy to use ’single click’ program. Read more

Wow, I’ve finally got around to creating a Blog.

So… here’s the first post, the first of many (hopefully!)