As some of you may know, I have my spinal surgery coming up in January. So I thought now was just as a good time than ever to stop smoking, or at least try to stop. I told Chell the other day that I wanted to buy an e-cig, so went to the local tobacconist… Read More
As most of you are aware by now, The Pirate Bay along with other sites like Suprbay.org, Bayimg.com, Pastebay.net, EZTV, Zoink, Torrage and Istole went down due to a police raid in Stockholm, Sweden. Police seized servers, computers, and other equipment. However there is some misleading information in regards to the raid have come to light.… Read More
Yesterday, hundreds of homes were evacuated in Heatley as the Explosive Ordinance Responce Team were called in to detonate a suspicious device found in a bin. Townsville Police were informed of the device around 11:30am after being found at Long Tan Memorial Pool on Fulham Road. Townsville Police declared an emergent situation under the Public… Read More
Today is October 15 here in Australia, and there seems to be a rumour about it being a massive day for Android. After all, Google hasn’t officially mentioned anything regarding any new devices, announcement dates or their upcoming version of Android L. However there’s plenty of information about the Nexus 6, Nexus 9, and Android L.… Read More
I recently discovered a product called kinetic sand, and it is pure magic. It was invented by the Swedes it contains 98% pure sand, the other 2% is magic. The sand sticks to itself, and nothing else, which allows you to build or cut it cleanly, however it is somewhat alive, and can also move… Read More
It’s understandable that people are worried, even freaking out about the ebola virus. It has killed around 70 percent of people that were infected in West Africa. However there’s not necessarily any reason to worry due to the fact that it spreads slower than other infectious diseases. The following infographic taken from NPR’s post on… Read More
The other day there was a discussion about PayWave and PayPass on Facebook. A discussion that I tried to chime into and educate the people that were spreading misinformation. The point of this post is about how here, in Australia our PayWave and PayPass cards use NFC, instead of RFID or EMV like what is… Read More
I ended up getting a pair of the Alpinestars S-MX 1 boots which say they deliver protection and comfort which is exactly what I want in a pair of boots. Commuting to work everyday I didn’t want a full length boot which would be uncomfortable to walk around in, so these are a happy medium.… Read More
Update: I no longer have my N5 undervolted, but will keep the voltages here. I have however changed a few of the CPU options, and in turn have updated this post. So I managed to get myself a Nexus 5, which best of all was free. So I thought I would do another post about my… Read More
I wrote a post many many moons ago about making your URL a no-www URL. Since that post, my site has always had the www. removed from the URL, and if you type in www.justynsmith.info you will have a 301 redirect to justynsmith.info. There are sites that don’t use www. and also ones that do. I… Read More