I’ve been wanting to get some photos of these magnificent birds for some time now.  I think the recent heat wave made them less likely to fly off. These guys come and eat/shred the dead protea flowers, which really does me a great service. I don’t need to prune the plants and they make […]

Came across this site today: http://www.onesentence.org/ Enjoy 🙂

That pink flowered weed I posted yesterday is likely to be a member of the Centaurium genus.   I’m guessing at Centaurium pulchellum. (Century). “pulchellum” coming from the Latin word pulchellus meaning beautiful Centarium is said to be from Greek mythology: The lore associated with centaury is that it was used by the famous centaur, […]

I got this note from Julie I liked so much I just had to share : Pretty flowers…good Screaming bunnies…bad 🙂

WARNING: If you’re feeling squeamish, please don’t read any further. Most of you have probably heard of the film “The Rabbit Proof” fence. The fence is a striking symbology of the mistakes we’ve made, and the often flawed later attempts to address those mistakes.  I’m not going to talk about the actual subject of that […]

The weather forecast for the next few days is record highs, so I took the opportunity to take a few snaps now before the heat wave sets in.  Some of the predictions are for a one in a hundred year heat wave . Remember the strawflowers from a couple of months ago ? Well two […]

Last month (December 2008), Microsoft released some security updates for VB6 components such as the MS Chart control The first update http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932349 updates MS Chart to 6.1.98.12.  The second update http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957924  updates MSChart to 6.1.98.13. Both these versions have a serious bug that will crash the application or cause instability, the chart not to draw […]

One of the nice things about the My application framework in VB.NET is the ability to easily show splash screens.  The splash screen is displayed using a separate thread and by default will close when your main form’s Load event is called. There is however a quirk with it sometimes. Whilst testing, if I launched […]

A comment by Joe Duffy on the Framework Guidelines for Extension says : Extension methods can also be used to provide actual concrete method implementations for interfaces. And this is a very important point. In .NET there is no support for multiple implementation inheritance. So although you could use an abstract class (MustInherit) with some […]

Queensland tourism has a six month position open: The Island Caretaker will need to post a weekly blog, photo diaries and create video updates to let the world know about the unique experiences available on the Islands of the Great Barrier Reef. There will also be some interviews with members of the media. The contract […]