June 2011
1 post
What's the Good Oil on Eden Park? →
OK so Gregor Paul in Herald on Sunday starts ratting on Eden Park and how it is an embarrassment to NZ and it“… will be the worst stadium to…
October 2010
2 posts
“I loved a good high. And if you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else...”
– ~ Keith Richards
February 2009
3 posts
The Installer Commandments →
John C. Welch aka Bynkii delivers the 11 Commandments of the Installer
“VII. Thou shalt never, ever, ever lie or mislead the user about your installer and what it’s installing.
[RANT] Who wants a dimmed screen? →
I’ve been having an issue with our Macs at work that I have been unable to find a suitable ‘fix’ for. I have posted on Apple’s discussion forums here to no avail, no response in a month and even…
It lives!! →
Yep I’m still alive. Man, it has been a long time!! Had a lovely holiday in Ruby Bay. View Larger Map Might visit here a bit more often this year. You never know!!
November 2007
2 posts
What's wrong with Apple Inc? →
I gotta say I’m a little bit annoyed with Apple. At home I use an iBook 14” G3 800Mhz circa 2002. This is the model that had the faulty logic boards that caused a worldwide free replacement programme. I’m pretty sure this particular one has had at least one replacement logic board, if not more. - My one I used when teaching went through 6 logic boards. Anyway this 5 year...
What can I say? →
Once again…….it’s been a while. Thought I’d just mention that I’ve linked to this blog from another great site I visit frequently - Nutterz, which is the reason I am posting again. Check it out - you won’t be disappointed. Been busy busy busy. I went on an Mac OS X Server (Tiger) course a couple of weeks back. Talk about filling your brain up with stuff. Very...
September 2007
1 post
Time keeps on ticking, ticking, ticking......into...
OK so I’m slack, I know! 10 weeks and counting! So much has happened in the last 10 weeks, I’m not going to go over everything. Needless to say, the 10 weeks is equal to one school term. So the kids are back on holiday now. Of course the first day today it rained! Well I was at work so it didn’t affect me too much except that by the time I got home they were a little stir crazy....
July 2007
2 posts
A New Beginning
It’s the end of the holidays and 2 weeks since my last post. I finished that one with ‘What a difference a week makes’, well things keep on changing. The best news of all is that we have finally sold our house. We switched to a local agent, they had one Open Home last Sunday and we had signed an unconditional contract by about 6pm. What that actually means is that the first...
June 2007
2 posts
Murphy's Other Laws
Murphy’s Other Laws
01. Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don’t have film.
02. He who laughs last, thinks slowest.
03. Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
04. When the chips are down, the buffalo is empty.
05. Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don’t.
06. The 50-50-90 rule: Any time you have a 50-50 chance of getting something...
May 2007
5 posts
Seems to be fixed
I still don’t know what happened, but it seems all fixed now! Oh well!
Something Screwy
Don’t know what’s going on, but all my photos are of the same thing. Somebody help meeeeee!!
April 2007
1 post
March 2007
18 posts
“Have you rotated your onions?”
– Mac Help from Maui Podcast
I'd like better.
We tried so hard to make things better for our kids that we made them worse.
For my grandchildren, I’d like better.
I’d really like for them to know about hand me down clothes and homemade ice cream and leftover meat loaf sandwiches.
I really would.
I hope you learn humility by being humiliated, and that you learn honesty by being cheated.
I hope you learn to make your own...
“Vibrating seat belts could halve traffic accidents”
– 21 Mar 2007 - NZ Herald
Lose vs Loose
lose |loōz|
verb ( past and past part. lost |lôst; läst|) [ trans. ] 1 be deprived of or cease to have or retain (something) : I’ve lost my appetite | Linda was very upset about losing her job | the company may find itself losing customers to cheaper rivals.
loose |loōs|
adjective 1 not firmly or tightly fixed in place : a loose tooth | the truck’s trailer came loose....
Intercourse Down Under →
My proper Blog
Drag and Drop
Dairy: ... I mean i heard of people dragging and also dropping but never at the same time, i didn't even know it was possible. Woow,,, those Macs must be REALLY advanced!
Gimli: Yeah Dairy, I heard even your cows can do it! Drag their sorry arses into the milking shed and drop their load all over your new Red Bands!!
Dairy: That's 'arrses' down here in Southland.... Now you leave those poor little cows out of this.
“I wouldn’t bet against Steve (Jobs).”
– Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer
“In short, when the core of your OS is open source (FreeBSD, for the most part),...”
– Vista - Where’s My Innovation?
Market Share Myth 2007: iPod vs Zune and Mac vs PC →
iPods + iTunes
Disclosure: I have an iPod (5G) and I use iTunes on a Mac.
Ok now that I have that out of the way, I want to talk about problems people have with using:
A) iPods
B) iTunes
The main arguments I hear people use against iPods are that they have battery/hardrive/screen problems; they don’t have an FM tuner; the sound quality is crap; people only like them because they’re cool!
On...
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Current grand total: 17,293”
– HyperJeff - OS X Apps
Nutterz - Friendliest nutterz on the internet →
“HECK is where people go who don’t believe in GOSH.”