Life at Midnight

12.5.08

Touchy iPod

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Originally uploaded by MidBlueMac

Last pic of this guy before it goes back to the mothership, and they ship out its replacement. (It started doing this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPtFJGkpfQc , now it randomly reboots). I'm going to miss my 0.75 of an iPhone lifestyle, and this iPod has sentimental value.
But not as much sentimental value as my 3G iPod. I mean look at those red lights! http://www.flickr.com/photos/20262161@N00/184391331/ AWESOME. Retro Mac fonts. Plays your songs with no guff. Downside - hard drive doesn't like drops.
I'd probably still be using it if not for that.

5.5.08

The Monday MiseryBlog Chaser

Here's an inoculation against the misery of the previous post. Apologies!

Christianity in Doctor Who

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/world/church-compares-dr-who-to-christ/2008/05/05/1209839493120.html

I think you'll see this comparison pop up in any genre show or movie where you have a character who is a standout 'Chosen One'. And if anyone works in mysterious ways sometimes, it's The Doctor. I think I love fiction comparison and debate as much as anyone can.

The Monday MiseryBlog

Two stories from the "I'd believe in God if He believed in quality control" department -

In an update that should surprise nobody at all with eyes, plenty of people knew about the Austrian dungeon rapist, but nobody did anything about it. Previously convicted dungeon rapist, I should say.

"Former lodgers at the family house and school friends of Elisabeth admitted on Saturday that they heard she was being sexually abused and mistreated, yet none contacted authorities before or after she disappeared."

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/world/people-knew-about-fritzls-crimes-but-still-kept-silent/2008/05/04/1209839454659.html

Yeah. It seems the assumption.. by those who bothered to make assumptions, by those who fancied some happier outcome for that little girl when she disappeared... was that she'd run off to join a cult. I guess some who knew her might have felt some small relief her nightmare was over, one way or another. Some unburdening, of their collective guilt.

Except that little girl never escaped at all.

A similarly depressing story has a man stabbing a nice young dad to death on the Belgrave line for no reason at all - http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/train-knifeman-guilty-of-musicians-murder/2008/05/05/1209839529288.html .

What can you say here? A gun or a tazer wouldn't have saved his life. In fact, if guns were readily available around here, that's what this creature would have been carrying.

Oh wait, and guess what?

"He said Acuna, who told police he had injected a gram of speed before the killing, had previously told a community services worker four months before the attack that he had wanted to kill someone at random."

I mean seriously? What do you need here? A disseration, with references cited?

Both these defective homunculi destroyed innocent lives because multiple people weren't paying attention, or just didn't sufficiently give a fuck, and neither one should have been out enjoying daylight at all.

Bloody Hell, What About Us Mate?

Blogged this story on iPhone Development being opened internationally
http://www.touchpodium.com/2008/05/04/first-signs-of-iphone-developement-program-being-opened-worldwide/
because I like the included map. What about us mate *indeed*.

Rumour sites are pointing at late June for iPhone, G'Day Edition, and
Optus (Yes, we suck a bit less than Telstra) as main provider. Though
the phone is said to be unlocked, so you can go anywhere you like,
even prepaid.

The biggest reason I didn't buy an iPhone in November was lack of
warranty. I regret it now, but I just know that the thing would have
died about half an hour after I got it home. And then I would have to
arrange for it to go back to the States, and it would have been this
whole *thing*.
The *second* biggest reason is that Australian data plans suck, unless
you have a 'special' device like a sidekick. The iPhone is no better
than my current phone/iPod Touch combo unless it has a decent data
plan. Optus have already bumped up the data allowance on their prepaid
plans, and it seems their other plans will be upgraded soon.

4.5.08

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Looks like the logies

28.4.08

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Santa left me cisco books!

26.4.08

Browsing the Dell Site

http://www1.ap.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/monitor_webcam?c=au&cs=audhs1&l=en&s=dhs

I wonder how many Mac Pro owners buy these silver-bezelled, webcam-
packing lcds instead of the brutally overpriced Apple ones?

--
Sent from my iPod Touch

8.4.08

Thinking of Triplebooting Your Mac? Here's the links you need

This link is all about transferring your Boot Camp partition,

http://www.geardiary.com/2008/03/11/the-upgrade-and-the-hand-me-down-a-weekend-project/

Which you'll need if you want to repartition your MacBook Pro drive for triplebooting.

http://blog.gnist.org/article.php?story=Triple-Boot-OSX-Ubuntu-Vista

3.4.08

Stormy

1) MacBook Pro power cable failure - no instant replacement, several days of waiting. (next time, I deal with Apple.com.au)
2) No power in my homer suburb for well over 24 hours
3) ns0.xname.org is down, killing my domain and email.

Urge to kill, rising........

And that's without bringing up Dave's problems.

/I don't want to go home.

29.3.08

PHD Comics: C-C-Coffee...

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=983

Yep. There are plenty of manuals that do this to my brain. Like the
tangled skein that is VPN configuration - I think my mind shuts down
in self-defence.

Sent from my iPod