Experiences with MR16 LED downlights

Executive Summary:

I bought some LED downlights last year that were a disappointment. However, the latest products in this realm (especially this one, the Ecolume 4W MR16 LED lamp) are ‘the business’ – and (for my purposes) are a genuine (and energy efficient) drop-in alternative for Halogen lamps.

I’ve tested four different LED downlight products in order to reach this conclusion. Read on for the full story.

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A blast from the past : Internode and Agile in 2002

Well, here’s a bit of a blast from the past.

I came across a couple of recordings of short TV programs aired back in 2002 about Agile and Internode.

The first one is about the Agile ‘Coorong Project’ – commissioned in 2001 and still working to this day…

The second one is about Internode, again aired in 2002. There are a lot of long term, wonderful Internodians in this video. Many of us had significantly more hair.

Its amazing to me to see the old monitors – the old huge monitors – and to be reminded how much desk space those things took up.

We had already come such a long way in 2002, from humble beginnings in 1991.

The building this was filmed in was our York St, Adelaide, office, a small laneway in Adelaide’s ‘East End’. That building no longer exists – it was knocked down in favour of residential apartments many years back.

My tastes in sports cars have evolved substantially since then too – that old Ferrari 308 has long since been superseded by a Tesla Roadster 🙂