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Well, it’s a baby boom alright here in Melbourne and we just had to be in it! Here’s one of baby’s first photos at 20 weeks; baby is doing great (Ange too) so expect to see a crazy man driving a pregnant woman in labour to the hospital around the 15th September!

I know I’ve been majorly slack in blog updates, but it gets like that everynow and then; work deadlines creep up on you and the only way out is to put your head down and get it done… Nevertheless, now that our GPL racing season is over, I thought I’d take the time to upgrade our Melbourne GPL League site.

I concluded on using WordPress as I found it easier to manage that MovableType (and I’ve been a long time MovableType user). WordPress also has such a great collection of themes, you need hours just to see them all. I end up using the Blix theme for WordPress and made only minor modifications. I might even consider switching this site to WordPress at some point — I love good software.

MD5 implementation for LotusScript

Almost a classic: How to destroy the Earth

I’ve been looking for a simple way of sharing files across friends and colleagues (particularly during projects). I was thinking of a private, peer-to-peer network where we can all share files seemingly with each other in a secure manner. Now there’s plenty of stuff out there, some more complicated than others - in summary:

• Direct Connect and DC++ apps (very cool but seems a little hard to set up hubs etc)
• those Kazaa and grouper type apps (not suited for business use)
• messenger/skype apps (good for comms, not so good for files)

Recently I stumbled across FolderShare which seem to be exactly what I want - apart from the fact that it’s not entirely free (did I say I wanted something free?) but nevertheless the free basic version only has a few restrictions.

Now remember LapLink? It was THE tool for transferring files around - now they have sharedirect that allows you to create an instant secure network for sharing files. The sharedirect client is fully integrated with Windows too. This one’s not free either (subscription plans) however there is a free version with some restrictions.

Perhaps I should consider building my own using JXTA.

Update: I’ll trying out grouper this week.

PortForward.com - helping hand setting up routers and firewalls.

I’ve successfully moved over from Bigpond to Internode as my ISP. The whole process was a total breeze and the churn took place exactly when they told me; I was up and running in literally 2 minutes! I’ll say it again, Internode rocks!

Nifty Corners: rounded corners without images