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Category Archives: Life

New Job

As of Tuesday, 28th October 2008, I’ll be moving jobs from Evos Group Ltd. to Enlighten Designs Ltd.. I’ll be straight into C# ASP .NET programming which is all new to me. They have a ton of work on at the moment so they’re hoping I can hit the ground running and I hope so [...]

Pet Hate

I just had to write about this because it frustrates me a lot every time I run into this. It is these new-fangled heat-sealed packages a lot of electronic gadgets are coming in now. You can’t get them open with practically destroying the entire packaging. I don’t want to go and find a pair of [...]

Help, I can’t see

The iSight camera on my MacBook Pro hasn’t been working for a number of months but since I rely on the laptop so much (and have had Uni stuff to use it for) I haven’t wanted to be without it for more than a few hours. Now that my final exam is over for the [...]

Powersaving

Yesterday, the power generation companies of New Zealand launched a large public power-saving campaign in an effort to drive down demand on our national grid. There have been power-conservation campaigns over the last few years in 2001, 2003 and 2006, each time the rains came and saved the day before any issues were encountered. The [...]

Sony Ericsson V640i

A while ago I decided to use my mobile phone for what I wanted to, as often as I needed and not worry much about the costs associated with it. This gave me a better estimate of how much I would normally spend instead of having it biased by how much I had left in [...]