The Pool Room

The Pool Room: where all the good stuff ends up

  • Grace Makes The News

    Late last year we all went to see Hi 5 in concert at the Wollongong Entertainment Centre. Grace absolutely loved it, and danced down in the mosh pit for most of the concert. Sarah was a bit overwhelmed by the whole thing, and spent most of the concert asleep with her head in Megan’s lap!…

  • iPod Video TV Playback Problem Solved

    For a while now, I’ve been unable to play video from my iPod video through to one of my TVs. Of course, the TV it didn’t work with was the good stereo one in the loungeroom, not the smaller crappy mono TV in the family room. I finally found some [info on the net](http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/11/18/video-ipod.html?page=2) that…

  • Two Great Christmas Presents

    Here are two great presents I’d love to find under the tree this Christmas: – [The Cubes](http://www.cubefigures.com/) – [Roboraptor](http://www.roboraptoronline.com/) Wouldn’t that combination be wonderful? Hours of fun!

  • Site Redesign

    This site is now running under WordPress. More content to come soon!

  • New Web Site: OneStopUnder.com

    My newest site, OneStopUnder, is now online. It’s for higher-end photography enthusiasts – the type of people who own (or long to own) digital SLRs, rangefinders, medium format gear, etc. This site won’t list every new digicam on the market (there are hundreds released every year!). It will link to releases and reviews of new…

  • Welcome Hannah Lisa-Marie!

    Hannah Lisa-Marie Collins was born today at 5:40pm, in Figtree Private Hospital. She weighed 3.590 kg (7 lb 14.5 oz) and measured 50.5 cm (19.9 in) – our biggest yet, despite being two weeks early! Megan and Hannah are both doing very well.

  • Mobile Phone Location

    Here’s an interesting site tracking the growth of location-based mobile phone services – mobloc8. It tracks news articles, web sites, etc with a breakdown of posts by category. Very handy if you’re trying to research a specific topic or company. It’s quite new, but looks like one to watch.

  • New Designs For My Sites

    I’ve redesigned some of my sites using CSS. This new design is cleaner and simpler than the old one, and I think it looks more professional. Please let me know what you think! Content HQ Personal Finance HQ Home Improvement HQ Oh yeah, and check out my mate Peter’s new program, InternetOwl. It’s a free…

  • Bubblegum eBay

    I had an interesting experience via eBay this week. I’ve been selling novelty chewing gum on eBay. A guy from Russia contacted me to ask how much shipping would cost him if he won the auction. No problem. After the auction, he asked if he could send me extra money to buy some extra Australian…

  • Programming Blog

    In addition to my new photography blog, I’ve started a programming blog. Why the two new blogs? Well, I read a lot of online articles about both photography (my main pasttime) and programming (my profession). I wanted to keep track of interesting articles I come across, so I can read them again one day or…