So, I took delivery of an Apple TV today. I guess, prior to ordering the Apple TV, I should have made sure that it actually had a video output port of sufficiently ancient tech to actually plug into my aging Sony TV. But, it doesn’t. I guess it’ll…
Another political post. Sorry. But it is funny. Morning of Thursday the 28th of August, 2008: The Rt Honourable Winston Peters MP, on the subject of allegedly fraudulent activies with regards to donations to the New Zealand First party, says that the Serious Fraud Office should either lay charges against…
I don’t generally post entries here about politics in general, and especially not about NZ politics because (a) apart from some tinkering around the edges, the two main NZ political parties are very similar, and (b) politics and the parliamentary process is generally as pointless, and as childish, as…
Outspoken media personality Sir Robert Jones said he believed a “lesbian takeover” was behind a new law requiring a court jury foreman to instead be called a foreperson. That’s interesting. And by “interesting” I mean, “At best misogynistic, and at worst batshit insane.” It’s very obvious that the…
I just found out from Annette that David Caruso, who plays Horiatio Caine in CSI Miami, also played Kit-Kat in the movie “Hudson Hawk”, a movie which is mostly hated by everyone but is a cult hit and a personal favourite of mine. Totally. Gobsmacked. This makes both CSI Miami…
So I just got out of a meeting which was an autopsy of the issues and run-on effects of a network fault. Sadly, although I am pretty sure I wasn’t the root cause of the initial fault, stuff that I did during to try to resolve it, stuff that…
I noticed that Annette was wearing a small band-aid style medical strip on one cheek today, and so I asked her what it was for. She told me that she had scratched herself. Then, after a pause, she said that also “City Spud” was in lock down. Unexpected Nelly references…
So, today I migrated my personal network stuff (and colocation for various geek friends) from ICONZ to my current employer, who’re kindly allowing me to snag a half-rack or so of totally unmanaged, no SLA at all, you’re-on-your-own colocation space for a mates-rates price. So, shut down the…