http://milliamp.org the website of Alex Taylor Sat, 02 Aug 2008 09:56:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm not a fan Hannah Montana but this caught my eye. The director of Step Up 2: The Streets issued a dance-off challenge to Miley Cyrus (who plays Hannah Montana) and Mandy Jiroux who produce the "Miley and Mandy show" on YouTube. Whether the idea was conceived as a marketing ... http://milliamp.org/2008/mm-cru-vs-acdc/ By now you must have heard the noise about Vodafone New Zealand's announcement of their iPhone 3G Plans. What a lot of people are saying is that compared to international prices, these plan details are extortionate. Vodafone have made the point that their plans compare with what is on the ... http://milliamp.org/2008/iphone-3g/ 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 ... http://milliamp.org/2008/pet-hate/ Last Thursday afternoon, a close friend of mine gave me a call to ask whether a discounted price he had seen for an iPod Touch was a good deal or not. He was pretty keen on getting an iPod Touch even though the iPhone 2.0 is released in a couple ... http://milliamp.org/2008/network-topology/ 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 ... http://milliamp.org/2008/help-i-cant-see/ Tom and I have had a hosting account with Startlogic for a few years now, it was very competitively priced and we wanted a cheap VPS. We haven't had too many problems up until now, the uptime is good and the problems faced so far have only been with slow ... http://milliamp.org/2008/hosting-woes/ Firefox 3 was launched this morning (5am NZ time). Mozilla Foundation have made a huge marketing effort to the point of setting a world record for the most downloaded software in 24 hours. Now, you'd expect, with a market share just shy of 20% of the global web browser market ... http://milliamp.org/2008/firefox-3/ 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 ... http://milliamp.org/2008/powersaving/ 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 ... http://milliamp.org/2008/sony-ericsson-v640i/ UPDATE: I have created an interactive test case and an automated test case. Turns out the behaviour is reproducible. Now, is this a bug or am I just missing something about the way that method should work? I was debugging a client-side heavy application today in IE7 and ran up against a ... http://milliamp.org/2008/deletecell-may-have-side-effects/