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New Kitchen

Even before we’d moved in to our house back in 2009, Aimee and I knew we would have to renovate the kitchen. The current kitchen appears to be the original from when the house was built in 1989. It looks dated, the MDF doors have swollen from moisture over the years, there is only a [...]

Broken Apple Wireless Keyboard

The batteries recently ran down on one of our Apple Wireless Keyboards. I replaced the batteries but it wouldn’t turn back on. I replaced them with a known good set of batteries and still nothing, no lights turning on, not pairing with the machine either. After Googling around for a while, I finally came across [...]

Kittens

One thing I just realised that I never blogged about are our two lovely kittens. We adopted them around March this year and they’ve fit into the house really well. They’re two very cute Burmilla kittens that’re about 9 months old now. Their pedigree names are Tobias Alpha Cornerstone and Nimbus Alpha Cornerstone and we [...]

Foggy Weather

In true “Hamilton Winter” style, we had some fairly thick fog descend on the city earlier this week, after having to drive through it all, I decided to take my camera out and play with some long exposures. The photos didn’t come out quite like I thought they would but they are still quite stunning [...]

Basics of Copyright Law

Someone asked me recently whether downloading TV shows that have been broadcast on TV is still copyright infringement so I decided to write up a little post about the very basics of copyright law. As most of the items people talk about, such as Films, TV Shows, Music are made in the US, I’ll try [...]