December 2011
2 posts
“And without a thought of the consequence
I gave in to my decadence
One slip,...”
– One Slip Lyrics - Pink Floyd
If you change “one-slip” to “1-click” it could be talking about Amazon
November 2011
1 post
May 2011
2 posts
My son loves sitting at my desk & “working” by mashing the keyboard. I switched to the Mac OS X guest user so he couldn’t break anything I cared about.
Oops!
April 2011
1 post
Notwithstanding the tragic loss of life in the... →
“Notwithstanding” is my new favourite word. It’s magical!
March 2011
5 posts
“The monotony of today will become the fond memory of tomorrow”
Data Mining: How Companies Know Your Personal... →
(via Instapaper)
I upgraded my iPhone to iOS 4.3 yesterday. Sadly I made a critical error. I had encrypted my phone backup in iTunes, but somewhere along the way I forgot the password. I thought it was saved in the keychain but that didn’t seem to be the case.
Fortunately the only thing I really lost was progress in a few games and all the folders for apps. I use MobileMe for syncing my contacts and...
February 2011
0 posts
January 2011
4 posts
iPad apps you should try
The iPad. Some love it, others hate it. No matter which camp you’re in the device is popular and continues to attract new users. I see people asking “what apps should I get” frequently so here’s a sample of iPad apps I think you might like.
Chat & Social
Friendly
BeejiveIM for iPad
LimeChat or Colloquy
AIM
Twitter
Reading and News
Reeder
Pulse News Reader
...
Apple conspires to make email users appear foolish
Mac OS X has a system-wide keybinding which I find really useful, although it doesn’t work in all applications. If you hover your mouse over a word and press ⌘⌃D a popup window appears with the dictionary definition of the word. It looks like this:
Meanwhile, Apple Mail has a default keyboard shortcut of ⌘⇧D to send the email you’re currently editing.
If you mix up the ⇧ and ⌃ key...
I use Twitter and while they have a feature-rich website I prefer to use a client application. It feels faster and I can use the style of interface I prefer. What do I mean by that? Take a look at this TweetDeck screenshot. This app is a popular Twitter client. It’s far too complex for me. I loathe their aesthetic and interface design. There are too many buttons, too much information, too...
December 2010
5 posts
Yearly Recap: 2010
This past year has been the biggest of my life. Our son Leopold was born on Christmas Eve 2009.
Throughout 2010 we’ve been challenged by our new role as parents. There was frustration and tears but also so much joy. I wouldn’t give it up for anything.
My wife Amy took the year off work to stay home with Leo. At the time I was a work-from-home contractor which proved tricky to...
IRD bumbles, but with good intentions
IRD issued this Revenue Alert a few days ago. In short, it says that New Zealand business are required by law to keep their records in New Zealand. Some online accounting packages may not. It appears that Xero, the only credible product in the market, stores customer data off-shore.
The law they are talking about is the Tax Administration Act 1994, section 22.
[…] every person who carries...
As your attorney, →
I advise you to take I-91 south to Exit 7. Murphy, Hesse, Toomey & Lehane, LLP is on the 13th Floor
Why the P2P DNS project will not work
You probably know that the Internet is full of “domain names” like these:
facebook.com
google.com
trademe.co.nz
wikipedia.com
thepiratebay.org
These all exist in the “domain name system” or DNS for short. It’s the system that allows people all over the Internet to use friendly text names to connect with websites, email, and nearly all the Internet services we...
Live from New Zealand
I finally got around to retiring my old WordPress blog and migrating the domain over to Tumblr. It’s 2010; running blog software yourself is not a smart move, unless you have some insane requirements.
Most of the thoughts I want to share publicly usually fit into 140 characters, so my Twitter account @svs is way more active.
That being said, I like having an outlet for longer writing. So...
July 2010
1 post
New blog
I’ve got an old blog running on an old copy of Wordpress, hosted on an old machine at my old company.
Out with the old, in with the new.