Last week end I purchased Coldplay’s new album XY and I have just gone to import into iTunes and move onto my iPod when I noticed a small note on the front of the CD case. “Copy Controlled CD” Not the easiest warning to see, it is in a small dark green font on aContinue reading “Coldplay XY a copy controlled CD”
Category Archives: Personal
Weird chess rules
During the school holidays a couple of weeks ago my Dad visited us from Sydney during the trip he engage in several games of chess with our son. The travel chess set we have is Chinese made and the rules have been translated into very strange English. They baffled him to the point that heContinue reading “Weird chess rules”
London Underground Blast
Been following the blast as the London Underground Tube Blob, minute by minute updates.
Desktop back up and running
Well sort of…. This morning I began the process of systematically diagnosing the problems, something always better done after a good night sleep. I unplugged all of the IDE devices and then through a process of elimination worked got the hard disk back without the CD. For a while I thought the problem was withContinue reading “Desktop back up and running”
Dead desktop
Today we bought a funky new wireless keyboard and mouse the Logitech Wireless Desktop LX5o0 , something we have been meaning to do for a long time. Well tonight I unpacked it, plugged it all in (following the step be step instructions) turned our home PC back on…… wrrrr, clunk, clunk “Invalid Boot disk orContinue reading “Dead desktop”
One Year today
I started blogging one year ago today! This is my second blog although it does have all of the posts from day one, the old one is here. Looking forward to the next year, but I also thought it is an opportunity to reflect. I completely agree with Rebecca Blood in that people begin bloggingContinue reading “One Year today”
Kids and the balance between life and technology
Slashdot has a short post on a new father questioning the balance between real life and technology and points to a blog post from Families and Technology on Nature-Deficit Disorder. In following the links and the comments it certainly opens your eyes to a raft of issues and possibilities. The site referenced in Slashdot isContinue reading “Kids and the balance between life and technology”
I’m back
Back from my week on training, I need to sleep for the weekend to recover. Our sessions started at 8am, morning tea 11am (15 min), lunch 1pm (30 min), afternoon tea 4pm (15 min), personal time 7pm (30 min), dinner 7:30pm (1 hour), case study work till 9:30pm, then additional (optional but recommended) activities untilContinue reading “I’m back”
Away for the rest of the week
I am off to a training course for the rest of the week there will be limited, if any, blogging from today until the weekend as it is one of those course where you have case study work in the evenings.
Crowded, polluted and a mess
Based on this article from The Sydney Morning Herald, why on earth would you want to live in Sydney? I kind of feel glad I now live in Melbourne. In reading the article it is hard to imagine why it was illegal until recently to install rain water tanks!
Michael Specht 