This is one of a series of “classic posts“. Resurrections of old posts that I enjoyed writing, and you might enjoy reading. There is a company somewhere in Asia that manufactures small speakers. Small piezoelectric speakers that can put out a surprising amount of noise. I would one day like to visit this company, and [...]
Here’s a very interesting set of circumstances that highlights the absolute atrocity that is broadband internet provisioning in New Zealand. We are moving house in a couple of weeks time. I have booked the telephone line move with Telecom (NZ’s monopoly phone line provider), and then asked about shifting our ADSL connection. They told me [...]
Update: Because this post is attracting a few hits from the obvious search term, I thought I’d post a little followup. Since I left iPowerWeb about 9 months ago, I have been exceptionally happy with A Small Orange. Sure they’ve had the odd glitch (2 that I can think of), but they are always resolved [...]
Wow. SkyTV, New Zealand’s sole Pay TV provider is totally off the air across all of New Zealand tonight. Their support lines are overloaded, and even their website appears to be failing under the load of a million angry users attempting to get information. Angry users are venting their spleens in various public forums. My [...]
So Ricky Gervais has picked Audible.com as the supplier for his new pay-per-listen podcast series. What a huge mistake. I’ve never had the displeasure of listening to stuff from Audible before, so I thought I’d give it a go. First up I was asked to pay for a subscription to Audible before I could download [...]
Looks like Ricky Gervais (and Steve Merchant and Karl ‘I could eat a knob at night‘ Pilkington) are looking to commercialise on the success of their first series of podcasts. The second series is going to be a pay-for affair via Audible.com. The asking rate is $6.95 for ‘at least four’ episodes. I’m guessing the [...]
I spend a reasonable amount of my spare time playing Battlefield 2. It has just the right mix of instant action and long-term progression (via the stats and unlocks systems), to be perfect for my partially ADHD geek brain. So as a developer it annoys me no end that they have changed several configuration properties [...]
I have a Leatherman Charge XTI and was using it to cut a plug connector off a lithium-polymer radio control plane battery. The wire gauge is tiny, and the connectors were too close together to get them into the wire cutter without shorting the two wires, so I decide to use the tip of the [...]
I (and many others) reckon Sony has been more on the naughty side of things than nice, so it stands to reason that Santa won’t be paying them a visit. Join the fun and stick this image on your blog, forum, or email signature. Or maybe just print out a hard copy and paste it [...]
Ignore just for a moment that this story was released for political gain, and focus on the content: Because, of course, I (being a representative of men) am a violent predator who must be controlled and observed at all times. What the fuck!? This makes me sick to my stomach. It also causes me to [...]
