Archive for June, 2008
Monday, June 30th, 2008
How To: Fix a Broken Laptop Hinge
In 2001 I made the transition from a desktop home PC to a laptop. I bought a Toshiba Satellite Pro, and despite it’s hard life, it’s still running as well as the day I got it. It’s a great little machine.
However, after about two years, the hinge cracked, meaning the LCD screen would no [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in IT by michelle
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Seeking Applicant with Windows Me experience
My employer is currently looking for a contract tester. They have advertised through a recruitment agency and also on Seek directly. I’ve been asked to help sift through the mountain of CVs and establish a shortlist of three candidates.
Having just recently changed jobs, it’s an interesting experience to now be at the other [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in IT by michelle
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Vegan Spice
The problem with winter is the lack of sunniness and warmth draws us inside into a routine of boring predictability. We find ourselves eating the same items for dinner night after night, all followed by the same tv/videos shows, before retiring to bed, only to repeat again the next day. And all the [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Domestic Excitment by michelle
Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Library Hack
I’ve become a regular visitor to the Auckland City Library. Whether it be investigating peak-oil, the Scott Watson Trial, minis, masonary, erotic fiction (that was purely research related for my secret website that will make me millions but hasn’t yet), or caves, the library has it.
What it also has is a rather WTFfy security [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Auckland, IT, observations by michelle
Friday, June 20th, 2008
Introducing Peak Oil
Before we bought a house, we would often head into town on Thursday nights, and browse the Borders bookstore, possibly followed up with a late night coffee at the Mezze Bar. (I never did get into clubbing.) Now that we have a mortgage, we spend Thursdays down at the library, with a hot thermos [...]