The Daily Bublé - Michael Buble

Canadian singer and songwriter, Michael Bublé, is becoming more and more popular, not just because of his music, but also his down to earth personality and sense of humour.  Today's Weblink is The Daily Bublé, a newspaper style website/blog with daily news, updates and links to anything to do with Michael Bublé.

The site has lots of embeded YouTube clips of Michael's radio and TV inteviews, which always have the viewer laughing with Michael. 

 

Check it out... http://thedailybuble.spaces.live.com/ 

If you'd like to hear some of Michael's music, his fan-site is a good place to start; www.undeniablybuble.com or the official Michael Bublé website; www.michaelbuble.com

Geek and Poke cartoons

If you follow the technology or gadget scene, you should get a laugh from this cartoon blog that pokes fun at the tech industry.

With a new cartoon almost every day, you'll find yourself coming back again and again to Geek and Poke for a quick giggle at the technology and computer industry.

Check it out... http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/

Cairo / Egypt - Daily photo

Last month on Weblinks I wrote about the photography blog "A Photo a Day from planet Earth".  Today's link is something similar, only it's a daily photo from the Cairo / Giza area of Egypt.

Check it out... http://cairogizadailyphoto.blogspot.com/ 

Jessica Watson crosses the equator

UPDATE: Feb 2010; new blog URL.
http://jessicawatson.com.au/_blog/Official_Jessica_Watson_Blog

On October 21 I posted about Jessica Watson, the 16 year old girl setting out to sail around the world solo.  Well, a month after setting out from Sydney, she has crossed the equator into the Northern Hemisphere and is going very well.

Jessica's blog has become very popular, receiving hundreds of comments to each post.  Her website has also been updated and now has a map showing her course so far and her current location.

Check it out, again...
www.jessicawatson.com.au
http://youngestround.blogspot.com/

Rove calls it quits

Last night Rove McManus made the shock announcement that he is walking away from his successful Australian TV variety show "Rove".  I could write about Rove's history and hosting performance, but as this blog is all about weblinks, below are links to Rove and the reporting of his announcement last night.

ROVEFEED   ROVEDAILY   SMH   NZH    THE AGE   NEWS.COM.AU   ROVEONLINE   YOUTUBE   TECH-AU   TWITTER   TWITPIC   FINDA

At the time of writting (the morning after), Wikipedia's Rove entry hasn't been updated, but there is a constant stream of Twitter tweets going on.

So what will Rove do now?  Following a couple of appearances with Jay Leno, American blogger Tamaryn thinks he might be headed for bigger things in the US.    (More Tamaryn Rove posts here).

Firefox turns five

Firefox, the second most popular web browser, has turned five and they want you to have the party!

A firefox party might be over the top for all but the biggest die hard fan, but their birthday web page has some interesting stories, photos, links and a cool cartoon.

Check it out... www.spreadfirefox.com/5years 

Official Google Australia Blog: Googlers pose for Street View camera

Official Google Australia Blog: Googlers pose for Street View camera

As I mentioned in my previous WebLinks blog post, the Google Street View cars are hitting the road in Australia - starting in Sydney.

Check it out on the Google Australia blog and SMH report.

Google blogs

As far as the tech and online community go, things don't get much bigger than Google.

If you want to check what's new in the Google universe, there are several blogs with all the latest Google goss...

The Official Google Blog;  http://googleblog.blogspot.com/
The Official Gmail Blog;  http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/
The Official Google Australia Blog;  http://google-au.blogspot.com/

There's heaps more too, check out the Google Blog directory; 

Big news on the Aussie blog recently was that the Google Street View cars will be hitting the road to update the street view images on Google maps.

Lee's off to see the Wizard

A friend of my wife from Scotland is on a 12 month holiday to Australia. Reading his travel blog provides an interesting insight on Australia from someone who's been away for almost 20 years.

Check out his GetJealous travel blog... www.getjealous.com/leemchugh

Church of WiFi

If the previous Weblinks post on the "inSSIDer" programme from Metageek sparked an interest in Wi-Fi, you might like to check out The Church of WiFi.

www.churchofwifi.org

WiFi

If you use a notebook or netbook (and even some smartphones) to browse the web, there's a good chance you use a wifi connection to avoid being tethered by network cables. The problem with this is that you're not alone, there's a good chance your neighbours are doing exactly the same thing, meaning the wifi spectrum can easily become over crowded. (The family next door to me set up a wifi router just so they could give their Playstation3 access to the internet!)

"inSSIDer" is a small free download from metageek that allows you to look at wifi use close to you by channel, signal strength and SSID name.  If you're having trouble maintaining your wifi connection, checking the graphs on inSSIDer could point to too much activity on your channel, or maybe that brick wall between your study and bedroom means your neighbour's wifi signal is stronger than yours.

The above shows my wifi signal (as the red line in the left graph and the red wave on the right) as I walked around the house with our laptop.  There are a few other users on the same channel as me, but wherever I went our signal strength was much higher and therefore not worth changing my set up.  If I was having trouble, I would probably move to channel 6 where there is only one other user.

Metageek supply a range of hardware and software to network administrators and IT professionals, but you can download their free programme "inSSIDer" to check out the wifi spectrum in your house.
Check it out... http://metageek.net/products/inssider