hi there!
I see you've stumbled on to my humble home on the net, Drive:Activated. My name's Sam, I'm an ambitious and driven uni student, residing in Melbourne, Australia, wanting to make my mark on our world. This is my site, which is mainly just my blog and some other bits. There's no definite theme to my blog, just anything that interests me, and currently that's web trends, startups, ideas and cool stuff. Check it out, leave me a comment, click on 'Who is this?' to find out more about me, or drop me a line by clicking on 'Let's Talk'. Hope you enjoy it!
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I recently had the need to connect to the Internet on my laptop, but really didn't want to load the whole Nokia PC Suite on to it. I don't have an issue with it, in fact, of all the mobile phone companion software I've used, it's the best of the lot (compared to the LG one... shudders...
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This isn't the way I'd like to start the new year here, but it's creating a storm and it's something that has the potential to affect everyone as internet users. For those who have been out partying it up over the new year and haven't yet caught up with Australian news, Senator Conroy...
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With the view of going to RMIT next year (I've officially become a number there a few days), plus continuing work, I'm going to be spending a fair amount of time in transit. So I can fit everything in, and bypass RMIT's crappy internet rules (no non-RMIT email access allowed - WTF), I've...
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Porn filters no barrier for net users "A MELBOURNE schoolboy has cracked the Federal Government's new $84 million internet porn filter in minutes... Tom, a year 10 student at a southeast Melbourne private school, showed the Herald Sun how to deactivate the filter in a handful of clicks. His...
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I was trying to send some VB.NET source code (.vb) to a mate using my Gmail account, and Gmail decided in its infinite genius, that was bad and can't be allowed. Ok, fine, just because .vb is also the extension of VBScript files which may automatically execute in some poorly-written email programs...
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I recently sat back and had a general look at where my time goes on an average day and I realised that I spend around 3 hours a day just catching up on news. One hour reading the newspaper (the physical version) while eating breakfast, then another two on average reading my collection of feeds which...