iMacs are cool (except when they are running Windows)

Went to a client training site today (my work is quoting on a new sales tool for that company, and we were checking out their current tool) and it was a room full of iMacs. This is the room where they train new sales people on their products and how to sell it. However each [...]

Pizza for dinner

I have found the best pizza: from Oxenford near Movie World on the Gold Coast. We have it every fortnight. Mmmm!

Broken Down Car

My car is broken down. The first time this week I was able to leave work on time and now the car won’t start! I’m sitting here waiting for RACQ to show up…

Outages today

I was mostly unaffected, except having no mobile phone reception for the entire morning. My work internet and phones are through other companies and we didn’t notice anything. The Boss was out of the office and his mobile is through Three so we couldn’t call him. No great loss. The housemate also once called to [...]

Telstra iPhone plan

(This is a little later than I originally hoped) The Australian IT News has a feedback/discussion area but I have not been able to get it to work. This is my reply to “iPhone: Telstra can’t beat Optus” Telstra charges $2 per megabyte (!!!) on their standard plan. When I viewed that page it was [...]

No Sleep

I often can’t sleep. It can take me hours to get to sleep at night, even actively trying to think of “nothing” or the usual tricks like counting sheep. If I’m woken up I often can’t fall asleep again easily. Which is why I’m up at 5am. I was awoken by the puppy’s alarm. She [...]

iMacs for all

I work for a small interactive media company and the Boss announced that he is upgrading all our Windows based PCs to shiny iMacs! They arrived yesterday so I’ve been playing around with Leopard and spent a whole day installing software and stuff and getting used to the differences. I’ve haven’t had an Apple system [...]