Oliver Erlewein on December 17th, 2009

In NZ the government has declared that raising the literacy and numeracy rate is extremely important to the economic growth of the country. That is very commendable but…. THEN WHY THE H*LL ARE BOOKS SO DARN EXPENSIVE HERE? No wonder nobody reads. It’s like 3-4x more expensive buying the book than the DVD. Even Blue-Ray [...]

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Oliver Erlewein on September 26th, 2009

As you might have noted yesterday my site went down.
What had happened was that I had tried an apt update/upgrade (something like automatic updates on Windows) on my Ubuntu 8.10 server. It didn’t go quite swimmingly. Nothing new because my installation was a little wonky anyway. But as I restarted the machine it [...]

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Oliver Erlewein on July 14th, 2009

Well I finally did the plunge and ordered an iPhone 3GS with Vodafone on Friday (10.07.2009) at 0:01. I even made the special with the extra dock!! Put in my credit card details and off we go…..well we’re talking Vodafone. The darn order system did everything it should. Except order something! Today (Tuesday) I got [...]

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Oliver Erlewein on June 7th, 2009

Last week I started with a new project. Our 1.42Ghz G4 Mac Mini was getting somewhat old in the tooth. So I thought it’s about time to replace the good old thing. Problem is that the exchange rate at the moment is making it impossible to buy a new Mac Mini. I’d have to shell [...]

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Oliver Erlewein on May 29th, 2009

Ok, so here we have what I said would come in the last election. National cannot promise tax cuts like they are proposing.
Bill English said today something like “the downturn is worse than even the worst prognosis and therefore the tax cuts cannot be upheld”. Basically either he is lying and National has pulled the [...]

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Oliver Erlewein on May 24th, 2009

I’ve often (and for years now) complained about working in IT and how the product we create is to virtual to make us realise it is our creation. There’s nothing to be proud of because there’s nothing to touch. It seems as if our human nature yearns for creating something substantial. Without it we are [...]

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Oliver Erlewein on May 9th, 2009

Just back from the movies. We saw Star Trek and the verdict first…. IT’S GREAT!!! Maybe not the best Star Trek movie but definitely the best since and maybe including IV (which is/was my favourite).

Director J.J. Abrams has certainly created his masterpiece. Maybe not technically as a film but for him to take the Star [...]

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Oliver Erlewein on March 17th, 2009

Somehow it’s odd that I seem to be blogging more about political and environmental issues than anything else these days. I have never really considdered myself a political person. Politics was something better left to polititians. I think most people of this world nowadays think like that. The past 2 years have brought about a [...]

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Oliver Erlewein on March 15th, 2009

[small update] So now the car’s gone and the experiment begins. I’ll be keen to see how it turns out. First I’ll have to get a CityHop card…

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Oliver Erlewein on March 8th, 2009

One of the things that just went wrong last week was that the Mitsubishi dealer took a look at my car and mumbled something like “$4000 in repairs”. For that I can buy two used Mitsus! That has sealed the fate of this car. It’s now up as wreckage on TradeMe. Hope that somebody can [...]

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