Getting a pool from green to blue

I swear the pool looked fine 2 weeks ago! 
But last week, I noticed it getting greener and greener.  During the week, I did do a manual vacuum of the whole pool, but it didn’t make much difference.  I think when I manually vacuum, I tend to be impatient and do it too quickly which results [...]

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ADSL2 but not ADSL2 speeds

12 months after signing up for ADSL2, I have finally got ADSL2!  Yep it’s taken that long!  No, not iiNet’s fault – but it seems that my local exchange actually didn’t have enough physical space to add more lines – so I was basically waiting for someone to leave or Telstra to renovate the exchange.
But [...]

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Keeping the internet safe for kids part 2

I’ve recently found a way to configure Internet Explorer as a whitelist filter.
This will basically block all websites from being accessed except for the sites in the whitelist.  If you don’t want to buy or install extra software to set up a whitelist, then follow my steps below.
But please note that a clever computer user [...]

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Keeping the internet safe for kids

We recently bought a Lenovo S10 netbook for our Miss 10.
I’ll review the netbook in another post, but one concern I had was internet filtering. Our family computers are currently in the family room where we can monitor our kids computer usage. But we have also put NetNanny on our current computers to filter sites [...]

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Removing a stuck lens filter

So, on the first day of our Italian adventure, my Wifey picks up my camera bag and accidently drops my SLR with new lens attached onto the floor – lens first!! Aargghh!!!
I picked it up, turned it around to look at the lens and saw cracked glass.  It was devastating   Now, [...]

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