PreshBlog

Hmm, Metcheck seem to think it’s going to get a little breezy next week:

Forecasting 305mph winds on Wednesday night? That would be rather far off the wrong end of the Beaufort scale, and I don’t think my fence would take kindly to that :)

I recently upgraded from a Blackberrry Curve to a Blackberry Bold 9000, which has a higher screen resolution (480×320), so I decided to re-do the wallpapers I resized & cropped and shared last year, and figured I may as well share the results.

Below are a selection of wallpapers I chose; some my own photos, the others are taken from various places around the web. I believe them to all be in the public domain but unfortunately I’m not certain, as I didn’t think to note where each one was downloaded from.

Each thumbnail links directly to the full-size 480×320 image, so you can just right-click & “Save Target As” or similar.

Enjoy!

I read a Twitter post earlier mentioning Google’s public DNS service, and suggesting that it could displace the popular OpenDNS

I thought it would be interesting to do a performance comparison between Google and OpenDNS, to see how they compare. I also decided to include the nameservers of my ISP, Virgin Media, to illustrate whether there are performance gains to be had by changing to OpenDNS (which I primarily use, along with others) or Google, or whether staying with defaults works. (continue reading…)