STANZ 2010 testing conference was quite a biggie for me. This was my 7th STANZ but it was the first time that I’ve officially stood in-front of a good three dozen people and talked about something I care about. I held my talk on Performance Testing in NZ. The main aim being to convince people to [...]
What can I say, I start this blog entry with a down side. The beautiful WYSIWYG editor that WordPress has, does not work on the iPad. That makes writing this not the easiest of tasks. Well, I downloaded the WordPress App and at lest I can type as much as I like. The iPad…. Well [...]
A while ago I blogged about my absolute love for my Sennheiser PX 100′s. They are truly astoundingly good headphones for use with iPods and other mobile sound sources. The quality getting up there with big headphones that cost a whole lot more. So….. I lost them. Looked for a week and then gave up. [...]
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 [...]
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 would [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]