Archives for December 2007

Get out of password hell

For the next 24 hours (or so) you can buy 1Password for US$24 instead of US$30 as part of the MacSanta promotion. If you miss out today you can still get 10% off for the next week or so. I’ve been meaning to post about 1Password. I’ve been using it ever since Don McAllister featured […]

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Cooling the lap

The other day while my friend was buying her iPod I strolled around Harvey Norman looking at computer stuff. For years now I’ve used a RoadTools Coolpad beneath my MacBook Pro to help keep both my lap and the computer cool. As summer comes on though I’ve been finding I still get too hot, and […]

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Webstock 2008 Freedom Photo Exhibition

Webstock 2008 takes place in mid-February next year. Join in on the Webstock 2008 Photo Exhibition: Freedom: In the original Webstock line-up, Heather Champ and Derek Powazek were going to lead a photo workshop. They aren’t able to make it to Webstock anymore, but we’re going to have a photo exhibition and walkabout day anyway. […]

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Those ancient civilisations still turn us around

I love it when discoveries appear to overturn ‘facts’, as with this freshly discovered underwater city, reported by BBC News | SOUTH ASIA | Lost city ‘could rewrite history’: Marine scientists say archaeological remains discovered 36 metres (120 feet) underwater in the Gulf of Cambay off the western coast of India could be over 9,000 […]

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Girl Geek Dinners come to Wellington

Our local Webgrrls Aotearoa group long ago gave up trying to hold actual face-to-face meetings. We could never find a time that worked for most people, and some of our members bop around the country and the world. These days we have a quiet mailing list, with spurts of activity, and a website that gets […]

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That six feet under sound

The other day I opened up iTunes on my MacBook Pro and started to play some track or other. My ears were assaulted by a terrible noise reminiscent of a poor transistor radio I owned in my youth. It sounded muffled and distorted. as though the machine were wrapped in blankets and six feet under […]

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MoneyWorks or Xero? An accounting quandary

For years now I’ve been handling my accounting needs with MoneyWorks: The MoneyWorks family of accounting software provides a range of feature rich but easy-to-use solutions for small-to-medium organisations. MoneyWorks is a solid product I’ve been very happy with it, and recommend it to others who need to run a business. Since it’s created in […]

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A great iPod purchase in Wellington

From time to time I complain here about poor service from local stores, but in this post I’m pleased to put a counter point of view. We have a friend visiting who yesterday finally decided to buy a new iPod. She’s been using an original iPod Shuffle for the last few years, but now it’s […]

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Dead shark at Lyall Bay

Sometimes I take the dogs for an early walk on Lyall Bay, as was the case yesterday. We had a good time too. While we were walking a fellow walker came from the other direction and stopped to chat. She let me know there was a freshly washed-up dead shark, further down the beach in […]

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Twittering to WordPress

After realising today that I sadly neglect my personal blog at Oddity59, but I use Twitter usually several times per day I decided to add my tweets to that blog, at least as an experiment. First I located Alex King’s WordPress Plugins, downloaded and installed : Twitter Tools This plugin creates an integration between your […]

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Twitter on blog

I realised today that updates on this blog are few and far between, yet I post to Twitter often several times per day. In some respects Twitter has taken over from this blog, though not entirely. Today I’ve added Alex King’s Twitter tools plugin and this blog will now echo my daily tweets. The first […]

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WordPress users: update Bad Behavior / Bad Behaviour immediately

Thanks to Maria for alerting me to this: All users should update to Bad Behavior 2.0.11 immediately to prevent being blocked from your own site. Within the past two days users have found themselves blocked from their own sites while using recent versions of Bad Behavior. A third party blacklist which Bad Behavior queries recently […]

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