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Pill Man

That's what I feel like now! I have so many pills I suddenly need to take after having a stroke recently. Having a stroke is no joke!

My home for the past week - hopefully they'l be letting me out tomorrow

My home for the past week - hopefully they'l be letting me out tomorrow...

Hilarious fail  - it seems that +Microsoft Azure validates the CNAME for a domain

Hilarious fail  - it seems that +Microsoft Azure validates the CNAME for a domain case-sensitively...The error page that tells me they found a CNAME of myprojec...

I'm kind of surprised-but-not-surprised that the "Really Blue" model of the Pixel has disappeared

I'm kind of surprised-but-not-surprised that the "Really Blue" model of the Pixel has disappeared so fast, but I guess Google's hardware division has a knack fo...

Just managed to get a pre-emptive customer service evaluation call from SSE Airtricity

Just managed to get a pre-emptive customer service evaluation call from +SSE Airtricity - "How friendly was your customer service representative?"?! Er, zero? H...

And it’s gone —The true cost of interruptions

Game Developer Magazine analyzed 10,000 programming sessions recorded from 86 programmers using Eclipse and Visual Studio, and surveyed 414 programmers, and dis...

The Obligation to Vote

Tracy and Hazel are very interested in this year's election. I guess political awareness starts at the first election after you turn 10, or so. They're both ver...

Something a little different

During my recent trip to Massachusetts for CalConnect XIX I passed back via New York, surfing a few nights on the couch at the Washington Cube Garden1. This was...

My daughter's school sent around a fundraiser today

My daughter's school sent around a fundraiser today: they want parents to buy bags of rice to help raise funds for the school at $5/kg. So it's rice, right? Tha...

Heather left today to spend the rest of the week with her Mum

Heather left today to spend the rest of the week with her Mum, so it's just us three fending for ourselves. After me cooking only one meal everyone agrees that ...

Happy children at home and warm...

Happy children at home and warm after I had to go and collect them early from school lest we get snowed in here. I don't think I ever expected that in Porirua!

Something a little different

During my recent trip to Massachusetts for CalConnect XIX I passed back via New York, surfing a few nights on the couch at the Washington Cube Garden1. This was...

Changing an old habit

I'm a keen amateur photographer and have been since I was at school. Of course back then it involved smelly chemicals, strange lights and dark rooms. The expens...

Making my laptop quiet

A few days ago I talked about how noisy my new Dell Studio 15 was but I can now report back with the beginnings of a solution to that problem, and it doesn't ap...

I guess I should have known better

Really, I should have known better than to buy myself a rather 'bleeding-edge' laptop. I suppose I've been lucky with my last couple of laptops and was thinking...

I guess I should have known better

Really, I should have known better than to buy myself a rather 'bleeding-edge' laptop. I suppose I've been lucky with my last couple of laptops and was thinking...

The cost of crap

For several years now we've been buying our groceries online. It's worked well, and for the last couple of christmases I remember Heather adding a six-pack into...

Graphics in OpenOffice.org: SVG, EPS and WMF

When Heather designed a logo for me for Morphoss she did it with a bitmap editor, naturally enough because that's the tool she's most familiar with using. I'd r...