From the monthly archives: November 2006
bugger, I let the magic blue smoke out of my monitor. Now I’ll have to get another one :(
It seems to me that there are a large number of people in the world, who have nothing better to do with their time than tell other people how they should be spending their time.
I think that pretty much all of the OLPC critics fall in to that category.
Why is it [...]
…was my bank account.
Nearly $5000 dealt with in 10 minutes. That’s the bills paid, now what am I supposed to do for the rest of the month?
“Dad, could you put these down for me, as I fear I may drop them?”
…I wonder if there’s such a thing as too much reading?
heh, ok, ok, of course there’s not! Besides, someone’s got to show the world that at least one New Zealander isn’t spawning a generation of txt-speak illiterates ;)
gah. I’m trying out Ubuntu 6.10 just for something to do, and I wanted to copy a bunch of stuff from my (Windows) laptop to the Ubuntu machine, so I looked in the Administration menu, and there was a ‘shared folders’ option, so I chose that, and was greeted with a wonderfully easy interface for [...]
I have beside me right now, my nice shiny new copy of the EastWest QuantumLeap Symphonic Orchestra Silver XP Pro Bundle.
But I’m at work, so I can’t play with it yet…
gah!
Forgot to lodge my tax return last night.
Done now though. My trip at the beginning of the year is costing me about $1000 due to the extra FBT reportable ammount pushing me over the threshold for the Medicare Levy Surcharge.
But that’s my own stupid fault for still not having private health insurance. [...]
