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Light At The End Of The Tunnel

systems administration meanderings

Tasker - just brilliant

The title describes how I feel about this app for my Nexus One. Tasker allows you to set up your phone to perform certain actions depending upon a criteria, these criteria can be time, place, application ………. I have implemented tasks that react to applications, so for instance if I launch Maps, then the Tasker profile I have setup turns on the GPS, and when I exit the application it turns off theGPS. Read more →

Moving to WordPress

I have moved from blosxom to WordPress lets see if I can keep up with writing some more articles/entries. Read more →

orangeHRM leave summary report

At work we wanted to use orangeHRM to allow the staff to request leave and have it signed off by the managers, getting rid of a slow paper based system that offered little visibility to the staff on when the leave was signed off. The only issue is that whilst orangeHRM provides some reports, it does not currently allow for a leave summary report to be exported only shown in the web interface as tabbed pages. Read more →

Justice of the Peace and the RTA

I sold a car last year, the guy paid in full and in cash. I duly filled out his details on the vehicle disposal form. Then walked round to the RTA and dropped the form into the box set in the foyer set out for the forms. The seller is supposed to re-register the vehicle, this he hasn’t done as you’ll see Last week I received a note saying that the car has been caught by a speed camera in Adelaide, just happens to be the city where the buyer lived. Read more →

Sharks versus cars

In my opinion one of the good things about living in Australia is that it has managed to retain/protect some of its wildlife, both land and sea based. Most of Europe seems to have wiped out most of their wildlife, especially dangerous ones, centuries ago. So it always amazes me that every shark attack that occurs here makes the headlines without fail. I have to assume that its due to the rarity of the event rather than to the event itself. Read more →