LP What?

Posted on 9 March 2010 | No responses

Apple’s iTunes LP 6 Months Later: LP What?

I have to admit that I never saw the attraction. I think I looked at the sampler once – just once.

Changing the world – one loan at a time

Posted on 4 March 2010 | No responses

I wanted to let you know about Kiva, a non-profit that allows you to lend as little as $25 to a specific low-income entrepreneur who is working toward improving their living situation.

You can go to Kiva’s website and lend to someone across the globe who needs a loan for [...] Continue Reading…

Content Wars: Apple vs Amazon

Posted on 3 March 2010 | No responses

According to this article on AppleInsider, Apple is not stopping with electronic books, and is attempting to attack Amazon’s mp3 download business as well.

Sources say that iTunes representatives have been urging labels to rethink their participation in the Amazon promotion and that they have backed up those warnings by [...] Continue Reading…

Viewing hidden files and folders on a Mac

Posted on 1 March 2010 | No responses

For some bizarre reason our friends at Apple have never included an easy method of viewing hidden files and folders in OS X.

Sure, you can do a google search and get the exact code to enter into the Terminal, but there’s a reason I use a Mac and not [...] Continue Reading…

Structural integrity

Posted on 27 February 2010 | No responses

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I’ve recently realized that you don’t go out much when you work from home, and you go out even less when it starts snowing. You could say I’ve been getting a little stir-crazy. We had a brief lull between snow storms today so I took the opportunity to go [...] Continue Reading…

Selling out?

Posted on 26 February 2010 | No responses

Regular readers (all three of you!) may have noticed the recent appearance of advertising in my sidebar.

For the longest time, I was strongly against showing any form of advertising on this site. Partly because I just don’t like it, and partly because the site doesn’t really look that big. [...] Continue Reading…

Let it snow

Posted on 25 February 2010 | No responses

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When I first moved here from the warmth of Australia, I really wasn’t looking forward to the winter season. Coming from a place that had just two seasons, warm and not-so-warm, it rarely got anywhere close to freezing temperature!

I slowly began to enjoy winter after I learned how [...] Continue Reading…

A summary of everything I don’t like about Facebook

Posted on 29 January 2010 | No responses

As an expat, I find Facebook to be an excellent way of keeping up with friends in other countries and timezones. I really like most aspects of it. Some parts of it really, really annoy me though. So much in fact, that I studiously block the offending items from [...] Continue Reading…

Hmmmm… iPad?

Posted on 28 January 2010 | No responses

I’ve been thinking about eBook Readers for a long time now.

I almost bought a Kindle. Several times. Then I almost bought a Nook. Then I almost bought a Kindle. Again.

The thing that kept stopping me was that I wanted something that could do more. I like to travel, [...] Continue Reading…

Simple Notepad theme for WordPress

Posted on 21 July 2009 | 13 responses

Introducing a theme reminiscent of the old school style of blogging, otherwise known as writing in a journal – Simple Notepad.

Simple Notepad is a theme for the WordPress platform. It was intentionally designed without a lot of visible frills in the background with the goal of keeping the reader’s [...] Continue Reading…

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