My first power wheelies

This morning I had a couple of moments free so I headed to a place where everyone practices their shit on motorcycles...I wanted to try out doing pow…

Continental Conti Attack 2

Just ordered these beauties yesterday for my ZXR 750 Streetfighter project. Looking forward to (ab)use them :)

Gordon's Mods for XR400R

The following is a list of must-have mods on your stock XR400R. It is considered by many an authority, a bible, you know - a de facto standard, afte…

Being a DBA

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintanance

I am sharing this post for those people who either want to work on their own motorcycle themselves or to at least know how the motorcycle internals w…

ZXR750 Streetfighter Project Part 2

In Part 1  of this series I talked about the purpose of the project and what has been done so far. In this part I will list all the additional upgrad…

Parking business card

Someday I am getting myself printed a bunch of these business cards.

Change application icon in OSX

Changing the icon is simply a process of copying and pasting. Go to the application which has the icon you want to copy, right click and choose "…

Triggering a Shell Script from Application Dock in OSX

As I have commented in the previous post , sometimes you need to frequently run a set of commands or a shell script from the Terminal application, fo…

Install Alfa Wifi AWUS036H on OSX

So you are an Apple freak but you do admit that our macbooks have a really weak wifi connectivity. You must have also purchased one of the best USB w…

ZXR750 Streetfighter Project Part 1

I must say I am lucky enough to be the owner of a 1994 ZXR750, deemed to be a future classic superbike. And I am so proud of this bike that I decided…

Transfer images from iPhone or any camera to OSX

This must be one of the most asked questions amongst the Apple community. The easiest and fastest way to transfer pictures from iPhone or any other d…

Connect Perl to MySQL

If you are a MySQL DBA, one of the most useful things you need to know is Perl. This will make you able to create custom tools such as for example be…

Install make or gcc on osx

At the moment I am playing around with Perl - however to my dismay I just found out that I cannot compile additional Perl modules on my macbook becau…

XR400 vs Traffic

Took the leisure to try out the new camera setup on my thumper! It vibrates a lot but at least the Kodak V570 tries to compensate the shaky image. An…

Breaking the chain

First off I don't want to make this post sound like I have been enslaved in the corporate world for the past decade! You never know what the futu…

Find which table has a particular column in Oracle

Sometimes we need to find out which tables contain a particular column. In Oracle this can be simply done by querying the DBA_TAB_COLUMNS system tabl…

What moustache?

I confess I haven't laughed this hard for quite a while now...

My gastroenteritis experience

As you may have noticed I haven't been blogging for the past few days. The reason is due to gastroenteritis which led me to an intimate experienc…