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Random: North-West Metro, Swollen Redmi Note 4X, New Sharp Aquos S3 (FS8032) & more

Posted on May 5, 2019 by lui_gough

It’s been another busy week – so busy in fact that I can’t see myself doing much in the way of blogging for the next month or two. Between working away on my research, RoadTest reviews and keeping everything running, … Continue reading →

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long Rnd(): Birthday Analysis, Spoiling Myself, Fixing Stuff, Thrifty Finds, Parking Tickets & More

Posted on April 21, 2019 by lui_gough

It’s been a busy long-weekend, but there’s no better post than a “long random” for a long weekend! This time around, it just so happens to be my birthday as well. Happy Birthday to Me? Really? Well, what can I … Continue reading →

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rnd(): Ghosts in the Air Glow, Networking Woes, Surprise T-Shirt, Opal Receipts & Parking Tickets

Posted on March 31, 2019 by lui_gough

It’s been another busy week, as usual, but I guess it’s nice to be occupied. You wouldn’t want to be bored … so I thought it would be a good time to make this “random” post that covers some things … Continue reading →

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Random: Hailstorm, Floppy Torture, Earpad Repair & Creative Racking feat. GS724Tv3

Posted on March 17, 2019 by lui_gough

It’s rarely the case I don’t get a chance to post until the very end of the weekend, but this week has been one of those weeks. Busyness knows no bounds, made worse when you get some surprise events thrown … Continue reading →

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Random: Happy New Year (2019) – Reflections, ABC/TBS Satellite Feed & Other Stuff

Posted on January 2, 2019 by lui_gough

Happy New Year everyone! No, it’s not deja vu, we’re in 2019 … despite the blunder that occurred in Sydney’s NYE celebrations. Now that 2019 has arrived, it’s time to reflect on the year that passed and look at the … Continue reading →

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Random: Crap Cables, USB Charger Repair, USB “Condom” & Win10 October Update

Posted on December 13, 2018 by lui_gough

At last! Another random post … code-word for “frustrations of the past few weeks that don’t quite deserve their own posting”. This time, it’s crap cables (again), repairing a problematic USB charger, building my own USB “condom” and being subject … Continue reading →

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Random: Kogan vs Catch Connect LTE Speed, Crap CAT5e, Unboxing RPi3B+

Posted on November 18, 2018 by lui_gough

It’s been a while since I wrote my last “random” post, so I thought it was about time to put up another. After all, sometimes there are just some observations that don’t quite warrant their own posting but are still … Continue reading →

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Site Update: HTTPS (at last), with a Terms of Use & Privacy Policy

Posted on August 24, 2018 by lui_gough

Just the other day, an anonymous poster commented on one of my recent posts asking whether I had considered using HTTPS and reminding me that I needed a Privacy Policy due to the use of Google Adsense and Google Analytics. … Continue reading →

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Random: 3M Views, Birthday Analysis and Taronga Zoo

Posted on April 22, 2018 by lui_gough

“It’s been a while since I last posted.” “A lot has happened since my last posting …” It’s unfortunate, but I’m afraid that this might be the way I start most of my posts in the future. Life has become … Continue reading →

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A Belated Happy New Year?

Posted on March 7, 2018 by lui_gough

“Happy New Year!” There. I said it at long last. But a quarter of the year has already passed, you exclaim loudly at your monitor. It’s bloody March! You’re too late even for the Lunar New Year! Yes, indeed it … Continue reading →

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Site Update: 2.5M Views, Holiday Plans & Optical Disc Corner

Posted on July 23, 2017 by lui_gough

The site’s been pretty quiet as compared to how it was before the start of the year. I didn’t expect it to get this way, but it did, for better or for worse. The first major leg of my holiday … Continue reading →

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Site Update: 2 Million Views & Site Future

Posted on December 6, 2016 by lui_gough

Readers may have noticed recently that my posting schedule has become rather erratic and sometimes posts have been getting rather thin on the ground. This is because I’ve been extraordinarily busy behind the scenes, and a few things had happened, … Continue reading →

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Review, Teardown: Crest USB 2.0 All in 1 Mini Card Reader (CZUSBCR)

Posted on October 1, 2016 by lui_gough

This particular review and teardown is a little different. In fact, this card reader was not one that I had purchased, since I normally swear by my Transcend RDF8‘s as being a decent performing, reliable and compatible reader at a … Continue reading →

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Site Update: A Trip to Melbourne for OzWater’16

Posted on May 8, 2016 by lui_gough

Readers may have noted the slight quieting down of the site over the past weeks – indeed, this is a sign of my continuing busyness. As I like to say, what people see is the results, but only you know … Continue reading →

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Big-Random: Public Transport, UNSW Electrical Upgrades & Vending Machines

Posted on April 3, 2016 by lui_gough

It’s been ages since I put out one of these random posts filled with random observations. That hasn’t stopped me collecting random observations, although the pace of collection had slowed down as I wasn’t sure if I would ever get … Continue reading →

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Site Update: Celebrating 1 million+ views (25 Jan 13 – 3 Sep 15)

Posted on September 11, 2015 by lui_gough

On 23rd January 2013, this site (i.e. goughlui.com) was officially born out of the ashes of gough.ath.cx, formerly served from home on an ADSL2+ link with a humble Raspberry Pi Model B with WordPress, and before that, a Pentium III … Continue reading →

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Site Update: Major Downtime at 29/07/2015 1044UTC – Cause: GoDaddy

Posted on July 30, 2015 by lui_gough

I was going to spend some time in the evening (here in Sydney, Australia) doing some blogging when, to my surprise, I got an e-mail from my uptime monitor saying I had been downed for over 20 minutes. The downtime … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday: Facebook Post Experiment & SSH Honeypot

Posted on April 20, 2015 by lui_gough

Another birthday, and it’s a reminder that yet another year has passed. Time seems to pass by quickly, even when you do your best to make the most of every day without overloading yourself. That’s just how life is, I … Continue reading →

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Rand: SSD Dying (or not?), Ankle CT, iMac Temp Sensor Hack, Fake Batteries, More Opal, etc.

Posted on March 7, 2015 by lui_gough

It’s been a while since the last random post, so here comes another, which is jam packed with carefully curated observations and events that have occurred since the last posting. Gough’s “almost” heart-attack Before anyone gets too scared, no, this … Continue reading →

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Mega Random: Merry Christmas, Site Updates, Transport Updates etc.

Posted on December 24, 2014 by lui_gough

Gee, it’s been ages since my last random post. Since then, countless security vulnerabilities, mobile OS updates, world news events, scientific discoveries, scandals and wild weather events have happened – so many that it seems pointless to try and even … Continue reading →

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Site Update: The Camel’s Back is Well-and-Truly Broken!

Posted on November 14, 2014 by lui_gough

As this site slowly steams towards its second anniversary at the https://goughlui.com address, and (nearly) half-a-million views, this week has been a week of terrible service. The site was down or intermittent for the better part of the past two … Continue reading →

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Random: Sydney Trains Rail Observations, DTRS Sites, Opal & Other Thoughts

Posted on October 26, 2014 by lui_gough

Readers have probably noticed that it’s been awfully quiet as of late. Unfortunately, that quietness coincides with the fact that I’ve been insanely busy with my studies and will be for the foreseeable future. Whenever the time permits, and I’m … Continue reading →

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Random: Site Stuff, LG D686 Fail, Shellshock, Transport Stuff, etc.

Posted on October 11, 2014 by lui_gough

It’s been a few weeks since my last random post, and many things have happened in the tech world. Unfortunately, because of the amount of work that I’ve had to do, I haven’t been able to take a break to … Continue reading →

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Site Update: WP Super Cache Active

Posted on September 23, 2014 by lui_gough

So far so good. It seems the use of CloudFlare CDN hasn’t broken anything critical yet, although as CloudFlare only caches static content, the slow response time of Ziphosting’s servers is still a problem. So far, I have found that … Continue reading →

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Site Update: CloudFlare Active

Posted on September 22, 2014 by lui_gough

Well, I guess it was a long time coming. Despite having initial reservations about running CloudFlare, it seems that I have little choice but to do it to help improve load times and reduce loading on my already ailing web … Continue reading →

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Random Post: Another Sydney Trains Meltdown, TfNSW E-mail Blunder, iOS8, Opal, etc.

Posted on September 21, 2014 by lui_gough

It’s been another busy week, but there’s really not that much variety of things to report on. The mind is still clouded with many observations and rants, so lets get them off my chest. Another Sydney Trains Meltdown It doesn’t … Continue reading →

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Random: Site Update, Sydney Trains & Opal Stuff, Tech News, etc.

Posted on September 13, 2014 by lui_gough

It’s been a rather busy week, so I think it is understandable if the random post is a little more limited in scope than usual. Site Update It seems that my content is being more and more widely discovered each … Continue reading →

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Visited: ElectroneX 2014

Posted on September 13, 2014 by lui_gough

ElectroneX is the premier trade show for electronics design and assembly in Australia, and is held in Sydney and Melbourne in alternating years. This year, they were back in Sydney at the Australian Technology Park at Redfern, making it easy … Continue reading →

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Random Post: Happy Mid-Autumn Festival, ElectroneX, Train Stuff, Site Updates, etc.

Posted on September 8, 2014 by lui_gough

It’s been another long break from my last random post, and it’s no co-incidence that I’ve been extremely busy. In fact, I’ve been so busy that the blog hasn’t been able to get the time it deserves – so I … Continue reading →

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Random: Site Stuff, Sydney Trains Stuff, Raspberry Pi Fun, Permissions Creep, etc.

Posted on August 24, 2014 by lui_gough

It’s been a while since I’ve made a random post, or any sort of post for that matter. Don’t worry though – I’m still here, and I’m still busy as always. If there was a picture that could describe how … Continue reading →

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