Thursday, 9 July 2009

Stairway to Heaven??

Monday, 6 July 2009

Resource preservation!





I think that those of us who live in the west have really got to start taking car pooling seriously!

Thursday, 18 June 2009

Documents To Go for iPhone

I know there are a few of these ( Datacase for instance which I have now ditched) but I have just discovered this very capable application to wirelessly synchronise documents, images etc between your iphone and your Mac.
Install the Documents To Go Desktop software on your Mac which then creates a folder in Documents (or you can choose or create one yourself). It works brilliantly too, but get this you can then can edit any Word documents. I don't just mean change the text but also format it to some degree too.
Very cool!

Thursday, 11 June 2009

Diversity - awesome!

So brilliant it reduces me to tears!

Monday, 8 June 2009

Damn, damn, damn - just replaced my old iPhone

and already spent my Krudd money!
Probably Available June 26th in Oz
The Fastest iPhone Ever
Video
3-megapixel Camera
Voice Control
Compass
Cut. Copy & Paste
Landscape Keyboard
MMS Messages
Spotlight Search
Internet Tethering
Voice Memos
Nike + iPod support built in
Now I know with the release of the new software update I will get many of these features on my iPhone 3G, but I could really appreciate video and a better quality camera with tap to focus.

Sunday, 7 June 2009

The Best Way to Get It Off Your Chest - I like this!

When it comes to dealing with a malicious co-worker, pushy family member or some other bloody prick, some of us go for confrontation. Others try to keep a philosophical distance. But for believers in the Waking of the Insects — a Chinese lunar festival in early March, observed almost exclusively in Hong Kong — there's nothing better than paying an elderly woman $6 to take her shoe and beat the pulp out of a crude paper effigy symbolizing the traducer in question. Crouched on plastic stools, Gu and other practitioners lay their effigies on bricks before furiously slapping them with slippers, shoes and, in some cases, high heels. Some chant "I am beating you, petty person! You have air, but you can't breathe! You have feet, but you can't walk!"
Given the financial climate, many of this year's customers have sought job-related vengeance. "Some got fired or laid off, some feel betrayed," says Gu. "They want to get back at people." Elaine Wong, a logistics saleswoman, says that the practitioners "can erase all of the devils around us."
For added malice, some practitioners use needles and blades on the effigies. But, says Chien Chiao, a Taiwan anthropologist and expert in the ritual extensively, "the purpose of beating the petty person isn't to kill someone. The purpose is to tell people to stop messing with you."
Feel like outsourcing your anger then Gu has a big shoe for hire or take the do it yourself approach, build your own effigy (could be a lot of fun), grab a thong and beat the bloody crap out of it! Definitely healing!

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