It’s interesting that car engine diagnostics have been standardised in the US since 1996, and you can buy consumer grade readout devices for your car. I wonder if that means that they’re standardised in Australia and that I never realized? This sort of thing is probably of interest to lots of hardware hackers.
Author: mikal
Cadbury doesn’t own purple?
I worked at the Australian Trade Mark office when Cadbury applied for their purple trade mark. That mark has now been litigated on a couple of times and it looks like it’s not so certain a thing. Interesting, especially given the IPAustralia web site still has information about the original grant online, without any mention…
Man tripping on LSD thinks he’s a bridge troll
A most excellent hallucination if i do say so myself.
What is the point that people’s morals evaporate?
Apparently people’s morals evaporate at around $1.39 a litre. That’s good to know. Is it therefore safe to predict widespread anarchy when fuel gets to $2 a litre?
What would you ask Mr T if you met him Starbucks?
I don’t know if this is the perfect question or not, but it is certainly a first order approximation.
How to lay people off
Guy Kawasaki tells CEOs how to fire people, he makes an interesting point, although I’ve never worked somewhere going through layoffs, and hopefully never will.
Goat demoted
It must be a hard life being a ceremonial goat, especially when you can be demoted for trying to “butt the drummers nether regions”.
It seems to me that most people don’t save enough for retirement
This article seems to confirm that my parents generation isn’t saving enough for retirement, and I think that’s true of my generation as well. The problem is that it simply isn’t sexy to save money in a super fund, or a 401k as they’re called in the US. I think it’s even worse for the…
Bear dines on pizza and beer in vintage car near Tahoe
Best. Journalism. Evar..
Bike maintenance
I’ve been noticing that the ride to and from work has been becoming more and more effort. At first I thought it was just that I am getting slacker in my old age or something, but tonight on the way home I noticed that the rear tire was looking a little squooshed when I sat…