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 Property Manger informs me that the tenant “has admitted that he cannot pay the rent”, owes $1850 in unpaid rent and…

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 even if it was in warranty, a failed BIOS upgrade is not covered. A bit of googling revealed that…

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 when playing movies in full screen or moving the mouse around the right start bar. The problem doesn’t lie with the MicroServer of…

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. =WORKDAY(EOMONTH(A2,0)+1,-1,holidays!A:A) Where; Cell A2 is the reference month cell Range holidays!A:A is a list of holidays

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 special tool to remove these screws. There isn’t, but a standard 5mm hex socket driver works perfectly. Find it on eBay…

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 for A2 and F2 statistics. I thought I would take it a step further and determine from past history if the…

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 Asian and Indian males being always refused entry, whilst local and western men are not hassled when they enter. I propose the following solution;

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 Videosphere was hanging. To keep with this idea, I decided to make the base a removable DVDRW drive, with a…

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 Slider JavaScript. After a bit of searching I found a fork by Lee Powers named Lazy Load, the update…

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 file is included as follows; Using eval, we can achieve the same as above as follows;