All the same.
Why can’t electrical manufacturers make products that support different standards? Televisions for example, Australia uses the PAL colour system and Japan uses the NTSC colour system. TVs sold in Ja... Read More
Not what the calendar says.
Calendar Spring is now here. I call it “Calendar Spring” because according to the calendar it’s now Spring, but it sure doesn’t feel like it. Calendar winter is now over and do... Read More
We can see more.
Now something a bit lighter. We have added some more images to our gallery. Images of our visit to Little World (Inuyama, Nagoya), a huge sakura (cherry blossom) tree in Okazaki and Mount Beerburrum (... Read More
They’ll pay us?
News.com has a story that Microsoft will reimburse direct damages their Anti-Spyware Beta software causes on your PC. They’ll reimburse you up to $5 (US dollars I presume). Now is this a joke or... Read More
Do different hertz hurt?
Hopefully you know that if you plug a 100-127 volt electrical device into 220-240 volt mains (plug) you’re going to fry your device. Plain and simple. And if you plug your 220-240 volt device in... Read More
That hit the spot.
Umm hmm… made myself a bacon butty for lunch today! Two strips of bacon, placed them in a red hot pan and fried/cooked the living daylights out of them. Then when still hot took them out, placed... Read More
Ahead of the pack.
Last month Kiyomi took the Test of English for International Communication or TOEIC. She got the results back today. Scored over 900 (out of a possible 985). Which is in the top 1.6% of test takers. I... Read More
Through our eyes.
We have changed the layout of Blood and Soil a little. It now displays a random selection of some of the photographs we’ve taken over the years. Clicking on the thumbnail will take you to the ph... Read More
Seven deadly sins.
So Micro$oft is going to release Internet Exploder (IE) 7 ahead of the next version of windows despite telling consumers that there would be no new version of IE before then. Reasons for doing so are ... Read More
Is there an Expo happening?
2005 is the year of the Aichi Expo (Expo 2005 Aichi, Japan) which has been in the pipeline for a while. Work, plans, other countries announcing they’re participating have been going on for over ... Read More