“I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.”Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See
The Incredibly Strange Film Festival is back …
30ml Midori Illusion
30ml Absolut Citron
Lemon
Crisp Apple Juice
Ginger Beer
This signature drink comes from Glen Cullimore, member of new Zealand’s winning team at the recent TransTasman Cocktail Championship in Sydney. Muddle the lemon, then shake with the Midori and Absolute Citron. Strain into a nice tall glass and top up with apple …
I came across some interesting links via kottke.org on the subject of tipping that explain some of the psychology behind this unusual activity. Essentially, it seems that the size of the tip is based much more on how much the customer liked the server, than the actual quality …
I was lucky enough to be able to visit Connells Bay Sculpture Park this weekend, for my Mom’s birthday. Connells Bay is on the East Coast of Waiheke Island, and the Sculpture Park is a collection of sculptures by New …
This panorama is made up from about 16 photos I took with a crusty old Mavica digital camera, and covers more than 360°. I was shocked at how well it came out, so I split it up into 4×6 segments and …
Land Information New Zealand has a whole load of high resolution aerial photographs of Auckland city (and a few other places) available for free download. The photos are colour, with a resolution of 2.5m per pixel. Sure, 198MB tiff files are …
10ml Kahlua
10ml Tia Maria
10ml Creme de Cacao Brown
15ml Fresh Orange Juice
Named after the infamous New Zealand cinema candy, Jaffas, this shot is orange on the outside and sweet in the center. Mix the Kahlua, Tia Maria and Creme de Cacao …
The Sound Inside, the second release from the Breaks Co-Op, is the perfect album to accompany a hot summer’s day at the beach. Or rather, it would be, had I bought it in the summer. With winter rolling in, this album has become my …
It’s New Zealand Music Month again so I thought I’d do my bit to plug some local music. It seems Kiwi FM, the first all New Zealand music radio station, is having a hard time getting people to tune in. Perhaps they’d be …
Blogtender was hacked yesterday, resulting in a handfull of posts getting a list of invisible links added to the bottom, I assume in the hope that Google will pick them up. After changing my passwords (probably unnecessarily) I decided to upgrade to WordPress 2.6. The upgrade process is easy …
“I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.”Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See
The Incredibly Strange Film Festival is back …
This is a fun little script I wrote up that reads your weekly top albums chart from Last.fm, gets the cover art for each album, then displays the top albums on your blog. Scroll to the bottom of the page to see how it looks. …
In case anyone else runs into this problem in the future, here are the steps needed to share a Canon Imageclass 4140 laser printer between OSX and XP. I’ve only tested this under Leopard, but it should work for Tiger as well.
First, the problem. While …
Free alternative for backing up VM's for ESX 3.5+ and ESXi.
Entire MST3K collection downloadable as torrents.
Car head deck with an iPod slot behind the face plate.
Configuring public key authentication in OpenSSH under windows. The OpenSSH readme is awful.
Tips for using rsync to synchronize folders.
Open source VPN software.
OpenSSH tutorial for XP
