A Glowing Recommendation

I just received a glowing recommendation of my technical ability from Olivia. Apparently she told Kym: “daddy is a good fixing man isn’t he mummy, and I love him” Apparently this praise was earned by re-attaching the door to her Little People school bus on Saturday night. Should I update my resume?

AllOfMP3.com

I heard about this site back in January, but I was a bit wary as it was run out of Russia and you need to pay by credit card. I decided since it was still around and I could find nothing but good reports about it, I would give it a try. The site lets…

Team America World Police

The new movie from the creators of South Park Team America World Police looks like it will be very funny. This is what the Thunderbirds movie could have been!

How Not to get a job

Wilkinsons, a chain of hardware stores in the U.K., has the domain wilko.co.uk. Not surprisingly I get a lot of email that is intended for them. Today I received the following (quoted verbatim): dear sir i went to store on 4th sep to ask for application, but told its over. i showed them the ad…

The beginning of the end of Telstra

I signed up for Mobile Innovations new Voice-over-IP service today. For $19.95 a month you get a box that plugs in to your broadband service and delivers a standard phone line. Untimed local calls are 10c and include calls to Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane & Adelaide. Other calls within Australia are 10c per minute, billed per…

Drool On

The new iMac has been announced and I want one! On the Apple page it states: You

Why are people embracing free software?

This story about Quicken and MYOB requiring customers to purchase software updates or maintenance in order to receive updates to payroll tax tables embedded in the software go a long way to answering the question. I appreciate the difficulty that a software developer can have in a saturated market – how do you keep revenue…

A particularly sweet donut

The queue at Krispy Kreme wasn’t too long today when I was passing so I thought I should try one in the interest of journalistic integrity or something. Anyway, the “original glazed” is pretty good, although a bit of a sugar overload.