what i learnt today - General CrapolaRandom crap that I learn. No particular topic. Anything I feel I want to post and have the motivation to post, will be posted.2015-08-15T10:48:18+10:00fukawi2urn:md5:a865e0fca55289dd0bb01a2a26e97267DotclearAdjust Ring Time Before Diverting to Voicemailurn:md5:351a228e7c7c751f90b7715469a7d3232010-12-21T17:20:00+11:002010-12-21T17:22:18+11:00PhilGeneral Crapolahowtophreaktechnologytelstra<p>Little known hack on the phone companies to adjust how long your mobile phone will ring for before diverting to voicemail.</p> <p>XX = seconds, increments of 5 (I think).
Vodafone
@@* * 61 * voicemail_no * * XX # SEND (for diversion to voicemail)
* 61 * 0414122000 * * XX # SEND (for diversion to CALLminder)@@
B Digital
* * 61 * 321 * * XX # SEND
Optus
* * 61 * 321 * * XX # SEND
Telstra
* * 61 * 101 * * XX # SEND
3
* * 61 * 0430005333 * * XX # SEND
OR... <a href="http://www.wandin.net/dotclear/index.php?post/2010/12/21/Adjust-Ring-Time-Before-Diverting-to-Voicemail"><em>Read</em> Adjust Ring Time Before Diverting to Voicemail</a></p>Screw You PayPalurn:md5:47214746dd54733f49025057e808dbf12009-09-02T14:11:00+10:002009-10-02T17:50:01+10:00PhilGeneral Crapolae-mailebayemailidiotsspamtechnologyuce<p>I know this is just adding to the ocean of <em>PayPal can go suck a fat one</em> pages around the internet, but I don't care. This is my experience of why I told PayPal to go forth and screw themselves.</p> <p>You think that with PayPal being one of the major targets of targeting phishing in spam e-mail, they would think that sending you an e-mail to advise that your account has been suspended, click here to login and find out more isn't the right way to go about it. Yet this is exactly what I got from them a couple of months ago.
For some reason... <a href="http://www.wandin.net/dotclear/index.php?post/2009/09/02/Screw-You-PayPal"><em>Read</em> Screw You PayPal</a></p>Black Saturday - Videosurn:md5:571ee4917596f6e1b02283ce8a202c6e2009-08-07T21:00:00+10:002009-08-07T22:02:33+10:00PhilGeneral Crapolablack saturdaybushfirecfacommunityfirefire brigadefireswesburn<p>Well I was going through my phone and found some video I took on the night of Black Saturday, and a couple of days after after Black Saturday...</p> <p>First up, this is a structure fire we came across a little bit before 10.00pm in the Dixon's Creek area. Unfortunately, due to both to the extent the building was involved, and the lack of water in the area we couldn't do anything to save this building. We spent some time watching it a protecting the other buildings around it to ensure it didn't... <a href="http://www.wandin.net/dotclear/index.php?post/2009/08/07/Black-Saturday-Videos"><em>Read</em> Black Saturday - Videos</a></p>New Zealand Holidayurn:md5:f3013f2b2f6826b49f1e10f75cdc1dd12009-05-11T20:42:00+10:002009-05-27T13:21:07+10:00PhilGeneral Crapolaholidaynew zealandtravel<p>Our trip to the South Island of New Zillund.</p> <p>Day 1
Flight delayed by 3 hours due to a faulty radio on our aircraft. This meant we didn't get to Christchurch until 6.30pm NZT so we couldn't pickup our campervan today. Pacific Blue were nice enough to give us meal vouchers worth a whole $6 that we could use - once we got on the aircraft after lunch. We're staying at an airport hotel tonight... <a href="http://www.wandin.net/dotclear/index.php?post/2009/05/11/New-Zealand-Holiday"><em>Read</em> New Zealand Holiday</a></p>The Story of 1 Fire Fighterurn:md5:e7a25190ad90aff447a073e51ddcef972009-02-20T17:05:00+11:002009-04-14T21:04:14+10:00PhilGeneral Crapolablack saturdaycfafire brigade<p>This is my account of Black Saturday. All times are my best estimate of when they happened, except where I have been able to verify them against pager messages, log entries, photo timestamps or some other method.</p>
<p>The events of this day still play through my mind constantly, just like it does to hundreds, if not thousands of other fire fighters and emergency services workers, as well as members of the public caught up in them. I ended up being the Crew Leader on a tanker that day, and the decisions I had to make on that day were some of the toughest I've had to make, but I made them to the best of my ability and believe they were the correct decisions at the time.</p>
<p><strong>UPDATED:</strong> I've found some photos and added them to the story.</p> <p>Being the Group Communications Officer and a Lieutenant of my brigade, I was privvy to the briefings given by our Operations Manager prior to Black Saturday. It was clear that tomorrow wasn't going to like other "hot" days. While I've only been a member of the CFA for 8 years, even I got that gut feeling that things could turn out seriously bad... <a href="http://www.wandin.net/dotclear/index.php?post/2009/02/20/The-story-of-1-Fire-Fighter"><em>Read</em> The Story of 1 Fire Fighter</a></p>