Trying out Zindus which allows you to synchronise address book entries between Thunderbird (my currently preferred email client), Google and Zimbra (which I’ve never heard of till now). It sounded like a nice idea but has resulted in me facing my address book inaccuracies. This dear thing is pre Outlook 95 or something. It’s been [...]
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What’s Sillier than a Comic Convention?
That litigateous church is at it again spreading their message of hate, but looks like the geeks and nerds trumped their silliness with no trouble at all. h/t BlackFive
Upcoming Australian Election 2010
The 2010 Aussie Election race is on with the widely expected declaration from Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced today that we vote on August the 21st. Julia Gillard has only just taken over the role of Prime Minister from Kevin Rudd after a cloak and dagger leadership spill. Rudd was sinking fast being, frankly, incompetent [...]
Digital Game Downloads
If you want to waste time but have fun doing so gaming is a good way to do that. Digital downloads is a distribution method with obvious cost and sales advantages to the companies but they are also advantageous to us as gameplayers too. They are much cheaper even at US dollar or Euro rates [...]
Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.04
Windows 7 Now that I’m actually using Windows 7 both starter and home premium editions I can say a few things about it. As you know I used the rather icky Windows Vista before. There are two obvious differences: The taskbar has been significantly improved over Vista where now instead of having to click through [...]
Eeepc 1005PE vs iPad
I’ve gotten an Eeepc 1005PE which is a netbook (ie small) computer. I’m very much happy with it so far and am typing this up on the system. I’ve decided to compare it with the iPad which is also recently released. Price was $469. The iPad is $629-$1049 depending on HD space and if you [...]
Windows LIVE, why won’t it DIE?
You know Windows Live is such crap. I mean that. Firstly there’s the email which doesn’t do it’s job on junk mail filtering. Then when you try to mark it as junk the server doesn’t respond. And that’s half the issue with their email, it is frequently down. Nowadays all I get is junk there, [...]
ANZAC Day 2010
Just attended my second Dawn Service of ANZAC Day. The weather held up this time and the turnout was very good, even better than last year. It was good to see so many people involved in this rather important nationalistic event. Yet this involves the diggers and veterans of two nations, not just Australia, but [...]
Gallipoli Special
Soon it will be Anzac Day here in Australia and the ABC have done a Gallipoli special which I think is worth a squiz.
Sarah Palin the Real Maverick
John McCain didn’t consider himself a maverick. Surprised? No I didn’t think so either. But it does undermine his integrity a tad huh. Do you want a real maverick? Sarah Palin. This has either long been her nature or she took the maverick idea to heart. Let’s face it she’s outside the norm. A wildcard [...]
Bringing Home the Bacon
One good reason to put up with smelly pigs is bacon. What is it about the “magical porcine meat candy” that appeals so? Recently Boq of Argghhh! posted Oelund’s novel way to quickfry your bacon. It combines the porcine delight with noise and fire-power all at the one time. I don’t move in gun circles [...]
Earth Hour, Saving Nothing
Yesterday was Earth Hour. I didn’t blog on it at the time because I don’t have an hour to spend on foolishness. However I think I would like to express my displeasure of it. The conservatives of course are aligned against the green movement and push instead to leave lights on to both protest that [...]
The Evil Within
The cases of paedophile and other abuse within the churches, particularly the Catholic church never stop. The church has tried secrecy and bribery but the silence is no longer and many are opening up to what honestly happened and now it reaches from the ground floor right up to the Pope. The good news is [...]
South Australian State Election
Tomorrow is the South Australian (SA) State Election held every 4 years or so. We’ve had the incumbent Labour (read leftish pro-union for US people) Premier Rann for while now, he certainly slipped in by the skin of his nose in 2002. 2006 saw a very solid improvement in his position as Premier but things [...]
Obama and US Healthcare Reform
The US healthcare system is confusing to me. The quality of service can be very high due to advanced technology but it’s also very expensive. The wealthy can afford exceptional quality care. The poor get nothing. However I’m told they can get emergency care and thus probably clog up emergency with non critical cases. Most [...]
