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Archive for the 'all things geek' Category (152)
you know theres been a wellington powercut when…
All the wellywood peeps vanish from IRC in suspicious circumstances:
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a gadget review digest
So I’ve bought a few gadgets and accessories of late and its time to write a review as some of them are worth the money and some are not and I don’t want people going and spending their money to find products are crap (like I have done!)
Logitech Portable Lapdesk
I’m guilty of using my laptop on my lap in the lounge. But I’ve given myself a few sore shoulders making piles of books etc so that I can use my mouse instead of the track pad. I prefer to play my games and drive my laptop with a mouse, but its not practical to do so. This weekend I picked up a Logitech Portable Lapdesk. Already, the improvement is awesome. I’m using my mouse and comfortable – no shoulder or arm pain to be found. Read More…
new logo, same old incompetence
Here is an email I sent to Telecom this morning:
the story of the stolen photograph – theres an app for that!
This is a Grumpy Alikat
Last Tuesday evening on my drive home, I saw a large plume of black smoke on the horizon and lots of fire trucks heading in the general direction of Mt. Wellington. As it happens, Corporate Consumables was engulfed in fire. Being a geek and having a loose association with the emergency services, I snapped a pic of this smoke plume and twitpic’d it hoping that my firemen friends could give me the skinny on what was happening. I was hoping like hell it wasn’t a friends business premises which was in the same vicinity.
In the next 20 minutes it took me to drive home, it got retweeted a couple of times here and here among others. But you could imagine my horror on getting home, I checked out the NZ Herald website, and my photo was already on there with someone elses name taking credit for the photograph.
I saw red. I saw more than red. I had that red mist that racing drivers talk about. I immediately emailed the NZ Herald telling them that it was my photo and they should be crediting me, not the person who emailed it in. To their credit, they quickly fixed it up and apologized. Nice considering it wasn’t their fault. Read More…