Is that all you can do?

The All Blacks played World Champion South Africa in a rugby match in Wellington this past weekend. While the Boks held in the game, they looked somewhat stale compared to the All Blacks. But shown left is what inspired this post.

Butch James made no impression in the game other than as a hitman trying to take out the New Zealand mid-field with any means possible. He tried especially hard to get Daniel Carter, but even failed at that.

Does South Africa really have nothing else but illegal play to rely on? I sure hope they play better in the 2nd match in Dunedin this coming weekend.

Photo from www.nzherald.co.nz

MIA : Software QA

It’s been a long gap between posts - but I just have to ask what has happened to software QA these days?

DirecTV Blimp, originally uploaded by FullMetalJackett.

We have a DirecTV HR21-700 DVR which decided to load some new software onto itself middle of last week. Since then the audio regularly goes into a 20sec period of stuttering breakup every 15 - 20 mins or so. It’s pretty bad considering all DirecTV’s customers pay fees to them for the service - you’d think a little more care would go into the pushing of new software!

This comes on top of some bugs I found and reported in some Nikon software - come on tech industry - do not count on your customers to do your QA - pretty soon you’ll have no customers.

you name it - it’s on the net

Came across this the other day and thought it was funny.

yup - totally pointless post

Making some money on your photos

I love flickr and I love the idea of making some money off my hobby, therefore I was very happy to find a blog today that talks a lot about combining these two things - take a look for yourself:

blogs.photopreneur.com

the (thiefing) spirit of Christmas

Just need to vent - some loser(s) decided to come into our front yard and steal two animated lighted wire frame reindeer sometime last night. Excuse my language but what f*$king a*#holes. Beware, your good cheer appears to be fair game for those that choose to take it. ‘Merry’ Christmas

Aaarrghh - it’s Christmas…

…and I feel like Paul Tito looks in this photo already and it’s only the 17th!

We have been going crazy preparing the house for Christmas, shopping and wrapping, trying to be all done this week before the avalanche of in-laws arrive mid week this week. We will be hosting Christmas Eve dinner and at this point we expect to be putting on a meal for 14 settings - so you can see how it gets on top of you!

On top of that work is very busy meeting end of year deadlines…. I’m surviving on coffee and dreams of two days off work to use my new camera

Unable to install themes or extensions - Firefox?

So with the recent release of Firefox 2.0.0.11 it looks like the update clashed with my security software and corrupted some files. It resulted in not being able to Uninstall or Add Addons to the browser. If you find yourself in the same situation take a look at this page:

mozillazine.org/Unable_to_install_….extensions_-_Firefox

The section in particular that fixed my issue was the one dealing with “Corrupt extension files”

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!, originally uploaded by (nz)dave.

Only two post’s ago I was saying I hoped to get a new camera for Christmas, well - it was the Nikon d300 I was wishing for, but had pretty much given up hope on getting before mid-January with the way supply and demand has been going on these.

Here’s the funny story - I went to a local camera store to get a replacement lens cap for one I lost on a recent trip to Arizona, while paying for my lens cap I happened to ask the clerk if they were still selling out of the d300’s as soon as they got them in, as I know they have a lengthy wait list. To my surprise, he replies that they have a couple in stock, and wham - it’s in my hands and I am a happy camper for the rest of the day - still smiling about it

connections

Isn’t the world becoming a small place? I left New Zealand back around 1992 and for the most part left behind all my old school and University friends. That was some 25 years ago, then one of my best friends from High School sends me a message on flickr from out of the blue.

He was hesitant at first, not quite believing it might be me or perhaps that I might not remember him. It all started because I left this post on flickr, mentioning a club we both belonged to in High School. 25+ years and thousands of miles separate us, but because of a handful of words on a website that has millions of users each with many many photos with many many comments, we ‘found’ each other again.

That’s the story of how Bruce and I linked up from opposite sides of the world. Bruce then told me about oldfriends.co.nz, I promptly created an account and filled out my time-line, low and behold there were all the names, still in my head after so many years. Some I’ve emailed and others I just checked as class mates - but all bought back memories from my childhood through young-adulthood, as I said, how small the world is becoming.

’tis the season…

Well - after telling myself over and over that I already spend enough time on computers as part of my job, let’s see if a blog is possible.

I have no idea what I’ll write or how often, but it’s here and it’s me. It’s the end of the work week and I am going home right after finishing this.

I’m hoping Santa brings me a new camera for Christmas - how about you?