TheGeekStories

Managing a micro-business online, or offline, usually involves paperwork. Lots of it. From customer enquiries to invoicing, the tracking of your biggest concern: the customer, is a tough task.Shouldn’t computers and the internet make business easier?You could just create a blog. Then add an email…

Did Geeks exist in the 19th Century? They sure did. Did they have Geek gadgets. Oh, yes they did!Telephones, typewriters, calculators: all blossomed through the 19th Century.The screen capture is of a unique device called a Curta Calculator. Invented by Curt Herzstark, a survivor of Buchenwald, it…

Did Geeks, as we know them today: polymaths, introverted, shy with the opposite sex exist in earlier times? They sure did.Matthew Connell from The Powerhouse Museum introduced me to a William Stanley Jevons. A true geek of the 19th Century.Who is Jevons?He lived at the same time as Babbage, and…

Social networks are not new. Humans throughout our existence communicate, connect and correspond with like minded humans.Written documents are the evidence trail that historians and museum curators, such as Matthew Connell from Sydney’s Powerhouse Musuem, use to decipher the lives of famous…

You can add this to your blog too: Add Windows Live Messenger to your BlogIt is a simple matter of going to the above live.com (obviously, log in with your Live ID) and using the simple online form to configure your Messenger web widget.The really, really cool thing is that you can have either a…

In a house with 3 Windows laptops, 2 Mac laptops, 1 Windows Desktop and a lone Debian file server; time absorbed in home administration was getting out of hand.The lone Debian file server runs on an old PC desktop. Last year in a weak moment in between jobs I decided to reconnect with my Unix side…

Gary Barber, the Man with no blog, is the celtic druid of the Australian Web Industry Association, previously known as Port 80.Perth, being so remote from the rest of the known world, has a unique culture of involvement and inclusiveness; much to the chagrin of other Australian cities.In…

Cameron Reilly, replete with his own wikipedia entry, is Australia's premiere podcaster and Founder/CEO of The Podcast Network.What you may not realise is that Cameron is a Napoleon Geek. So much so, that his podcast has tens of thousands of listeners and Cam has been named a Fellow of the…

Virtualized, tatooed, 1970s and 1980s geeks abounded at Podcamp Perth.Held on a Saturday, the famous Perth Port80 Posse hosted various luminaries, bloggers, famous podcasters and lowly corporate types in an free unconference of information (and beer) interchange.Geek Stories? You betcha. Have a…

Web Directions South is a yearly conference held in Sydney. The core of Australia's web-construction community emerge from their twitter, blogs, HTML, CSS, Notepad+, Dreamweaver and Photoshop to talk shop.I attended the first day of Web Directions, and captured a collection of Geek Stories from…