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Bundaberg Flood 2013 chart
Comparison of the 2013 flood (worst flood since records began) to the one in 2010/2011, this one is so much worse: Hopes and best wishes to all affected by this disaster.
View ArticleGoogle Reader
I’m kinda upset that that Google is killing reader. It’s not like they need to spend any money on development, they haven’t done that for years anyway. Leaving it as it is doesn’t cost them a cent....
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10 years of Darkgate
10 years ago today I registered the domain “darkgate.net” and started up this humble website. Wow, that’s a long time… yet it seems like only yesterday I was racking my brain trying to come up with a...
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Bundaberg River Height
The Bureau of Meterology website has some excellent data on river heights and was an invaluable tool during the flood in Bundy. I noticed the river height graph for the Burnett River in Bundaberg is no...
View ArticleXBox/Netflix via VPN HOWTO
Unfortunately Australia is way behind the rest of the world when it comes to online services. Digital streaming services like Netflix and Hulu are geo-locked, so if you try and access them from an...
View ArticleNew Site!
It’s been a while since the last revamp, we’ve got a new WordPress theme and I’ve updated almost all of the back-end code. The site has also moved “into the cloud”. Hopefully this will make Darkgate...
View ArticleFixing 2GB Application Storage on Samsung Galaxy S2
For months now my Galaxy S2 has been telling me I have no room for new apps (or even downloading my email) and I need to clear space. I’ve moved everything I possibly can to the SD card and still, it...
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Syncing files from Linux to an Android Tablet
I’m not sure why but Google seems to love Linux in their datacenter but hate it everywhere else. Most of their apps no longer have native Linux versions (like Picasa) and if you’ve ever tried to plug...
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Syncing files from Linux to an Android Tablet – Part 2
So… the “progressive slowing down” was really getting to me. I couldn’t work out what was causing it, so I decided to try a few other things and now I’ve found a new system that I’m really happy with....
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