The myth of the retina display
As more and more Android phones are coming out with high resolution displays, along the same line as Apple’s iPhone’s Retina Display, many tech journalists are comparing their screens to the iPhone. They’re saying thingts like “it’s lower than the iPhone, but still above the ‘magic’ 300 pixels per inch mark”. It’s important to note, … Read more
If you could go back in time, what would you change?
If you could go back in time and change one thing in your life, what would it be, and why? If it’s embarrassing, just tell me a very very general answer. Be as vague (or as specific) as you like. Just leave your answer in the comments, or email me at jimcullenaus@gmail.com. Feel free to be … Read more
The effect of blogging on people’s writing ability
This is a blog post that originated from when I wrote for The Teen Geek, a website that has now been discontinued. I then cross posted it onto my Tumblr, before I gave up on that service. This is my first blog post here, and effectively my first ever, so I thought it would be … Read more
YouTube Easter Egg: Let Google Rick Roll you!
I just discovered a cool little Easter Egg that YouTube has included in its HTML5 version. By going to http://youtube.com/html5 and joining the experiment, the right click menu on a video will give you the option to ‘Save Video As…’ If you click that option, it takes you to a video of Rick Astley’s song … Read more
He is an ironman
My dad finished his Ironman in the amazing time of 10:52:12. That’s 10 hours, 52 minutes, 12 seconds. Ben Turner got 10:26:10, and Wayne was around 10:05. All three of them got amazing times, and I’m sure all their families are extremely proud of them. This Ironman saw the breaking of a world record. 34 year-old … Read more
Guten Tag from Austria
Just a quick check in from a café here in Austria. It’s the middle of my dad’s IRONMAN, and I’m sitting here to upload some photos of the event. http://ge.tt/84HVxc5 Click that link to see the photos as they upload. Ge.tt is an awesome website for uploading files and sharing them with people. Unfortunately it doesn’t … Read more
Problems with WordPress
About two weeks or so ago now, I was working on another blog post about the power of a tool named Prey. Months ago, I created a draft post where I posted a link to an interesting story regarding Prey, and then left for a while. When I came back to work on it again, … Read more
Just my luck
I seem to get everything I need right after I need it. I recently helped in making a film, and just a few days after the deadline for submission, the rainy season finally started. We had been waiting to try and film in the rain for weeks prior to that, and ended up doing the … Read more
Ho Chi Minh City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera
No joke, that’s the full name of the orchestra I went to see this Monday; the only real professional orchestra that I know of in Saigon. They played a really cool repertoire; consisting of Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture and Violin Concerto in D Major; Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on the theme of Paganini; and Mussorgsky’s Dawn on the … Read more
Respecting Authoritative Decisions, even bad ones
In part 1 and part 2 of this series, I talked about why the (then) recent decisions relating to school prefects and head students were terrible choices. Now I’m going to talk about why I will still respect those decisions. There really isn’t much to be said about it. The fact is that even though … Read more












