So I’ve just sat through the hour-and-a-half keynote that was Apple’s introduction of the iPad. First thoughts? Cute coffee-table computer. Good for web surfing, eBooks, iPhone-style games, email, etc. If I didn’t already have an Apple laptop, and an iPhone 3GS, I would definitely jump at the top-end iPad. Is it the magical device that [...]
Archive for January, 2010
It’s amazing how we take water coming from our taps for granted. This morning I left the house, and there was a water crew digging up a neighbour’s front yard. Water running down both sides of the street, and even bubbling up out of the Telstra pit out the front of my house, flowing in [...]
INTERNET ADSL: CONNECTED Mode: G.992.5 (ADSL2+) Upload: 1023 Kbps. Download: 12675 Kbps. UPTIME: 0:01:57:18
I jumped in to mum’s car a few days ago, when I went to the place WauloK was house-sitting, and it ran rubbish. I thought the timing may have been retarded, because every time I pressed on the accelerator, the motor started shuddering, but there were not too many issues cruising at a constant speed. [...]
The vehicle is made up of inedible parts. On no account must any parts be bitten, sucked, chewed or swallowed.
Wow, two broadband updates in one day. LOLO is back up, and Telstra have processed the line changes, so the line now shows as theirs, and not on iPrimus ULL. Brilliant. The service at the old place is less than six months old, so an ETF (Early Termination Fee) will apply if I relocate it. [...]
I woke this morning to find the message “LOLO is down”. While this may not mean much to most people, to me it means that Telstra’s database, which holds all phone records is unavailable. Without this database, we cannot establish if the records for my phone line have been updated as yet, and as a [...]
If there is one place where you can count on Telstra more than any other, it’s when you want to move to them from another provider. True to their word, the phone service was changed over today, hours before they said it would be. Sure, I’m using them so that I can keep the number [...]
Because it’s been sitting around for a while, I decided to take mum’s car out today. It’s running like a bucket of shit, it shudders under load. I think the timing must be out. I drove it round to the place that WauloK is house-sitting, and we then jumped in to his car, and drove [...]
As I mentioned earlier, I downloaded GeoSphere for the iPhone, and other than the fact that it can’t grab caches directly from www.geocaching.com, it’s a pretty damned good app. I don’t think any app has the ability to do that, however. Seeing that WauloK and I live pretty close to the M7, I’ve been giving [...]
