10 March 2014

You need a Zombie Apocalypse Kit

I must admit I was once a Boy Scout… and tend to like to be prepared for stuff. Sometimes more than I really need to be! Ok, I haven’t yet seen a Zombie (except for my son on Halloween) but there have been a number of Earthquakes in Christchurch New Zealand, and the fact that there are over 50 Volcanoes...

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26 February 2014

Samsung Galaxy S5 Release, Impressive?

I see the S5 has just been announced by Samsung finally at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona & and it will be available in NZ on April 11.  I have been looking over some of the features after having an S4, Note 1 & 2, and various other Android phones. There are some incremental improvements and a few new...

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20 February 2014

“Things” are funnier than they seem

I quite like board games, well party games really. I have quite a few myself. But I do get a bit annoyed when I hear someone raving about a game… that I’ve never heard of, and last weekend was one of those occasions. At the end of a BBQ, the guests were split into the ‘youngies’, and the ‘slightly more...

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19 February 2014

Linked-in Collec…Connecting

Connecting to people on social media has its place, and I have been using a number of social platforms over recent times for rapid viewing of up-to-the-second information and keeping in touch with more people that it would otherwise humanly be possible. Facebook over the past few years has improved their privacy settings (enough that I will actually use it...

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6 February 2014

Castle Bed and Princess Bedroom

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7 January 2014

iPad and iPhone tips

Just a repost from a technology site.  I guess if you have an iPad these are useful things to know.  I think they have hyped it up a bit… they aren’t exactly ‘mind-blowing’!  Interesting and mostly helpful all the same.

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28 November 2013

Bitcoin…. it’s not magic

Bitcoin has been mentioned in the mainstream media recently as a ‘new form of electronic money’.  It sounds impressive, but the way it works as a system of ‘money’ is actually not that impressive and easy to explain if you take the ‘tech’ side away.  

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20 November 2013

Living with Windows 8 Mobile

I’ve had the (dis)-pleasure of being forced into a new mobile for ‘real-job’, and after a bunch of to-ing and fro-ing with our IT management, Windows 8 has become the mobile operating system of choice. We are moving from a Blackberry environment, but I was fortunate enough to be able to run my own Android phone until recently.  As a...

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14 November 2013

Zoomy taxi app is a game changer

I don’t often have a need to get a taxi these days as I am less out and about than I used to be, but when I needed to drop my Holden in for a service, I jumped at the chance to call a taxi via the new Zoomy app taxi service.

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14 November 2013

Should I buy a Chromebook for my child’s schoolwork?

This question gets asked of me a lot in the local area where I live. Most of the local schools ‘require’ some form of personal computing device for each child now (beyond about the age of 10+) and Chromebooks are an often recommended solution with the alternative being the iPad or a full laptop. I’m sometimes not even sure if...

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18 July 2012

My Favourite Android Applications

These are all the apps I use right now (not all of them though, that would take quite a while)…some I use more on the tablet, some are not free, and some are widgets only. I’ve tried to note in the detail all this information.

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11 July 2012

Cheap APad WonderMedia Tablet firmware upgrade

A cheap APad WonderMedia Tablet firmware upgrade. It is marked on back as APad Starter, WonderMedia WM8650. Installed Universal Uberoid WM8650 firmware.

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4 November 2011

Sony XPeria X10i Notes

Android 2.1 flashing and upgrading a Sony Ericsson X10i

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3 November 2010

Network Bridging in an Ubuntu desktop/server

Requirement is have two or more network cards on a server that do the same job as a network switch.

1000base switches are more expensive than a few NICs and spare PCI slots (although the bus may not be up to all that traffic). The Desktop is running LTSP so Gigabit Ethernet is a much better experience for the clients.

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21 March 2009

Just another day at the track

There were lots of cars there…it was $75 for the day – generally the club keeps costs low and tries to just break even. A number of Aucklanders went the day before and stayed the night locally. We stayed at the African themed hotel in Taupo.

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21 October 2005

MX5 turns 10… celebrated in Christchurch

I happened to be travelling to Oz around this time for work, so I stopped in Christchurch to help the Christchurch club celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the MX5. It was great to meet the famous (in Mazda Circles) Toshihiko Hirai who was head of the Mazda Roadster program from 1986.

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8 October 2005

That 2005 MX5 Record Attempt

Remember… back in 2005 we set the Guinness World Record (at the time) for the Largest Parade of Mazda MX-5s? It was also part of the launch of the NC Model, one of which led the parade. Officially, 294 MX5s/Roadsters turned up on the day (we counted more, but hey…)

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12 March 2005

NC Launch! (and other cars in a car show)

I’m great at planning work trips… and this one I happened to be in Melbourne at the time of the Melbourne car show. This was the regional (and possibly the same time as the other nations) launch of the NC MX5.

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18 January 2004

It’s Training… not Racing

Who doesn’t love a good track day (or driver training day… as we always try to call them). In my time with the club, I probably went to 5 or 6 at various circuits around NZ. This one was at the Pukekohe circuit.

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13 December 2003

A Very MX-Mas 2003

Standard Club stuff, go to a place around Xmas, have a picnic. Well that is what it is like in NZ… maybe not in the UK and US. This was a bunch of pics from way back in 2003.

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