using incandescent globes for heating is not _that_ uncommon in tropical areas... eh? you might say... WTF? even.... well simple, you put a low wattage (20-40) in your linen cupboard to keep humidity from condensing in what would normally be a cooler part of the house and it helps stop mould and mildew forming. it would be insane to have space heating in a house like my ex's in Broome Australia that normally sees a minimum temperature of, say, 15c at the coldest and averages around 30c and with almost constat high humidity... In this case it is light that is the waste product.

damn I feel like a very, very small cog in a very very large machine

is always the best day of the week

stole my laptop 6 months back (MacBook Black... sniff, :( I miss that little mac ...) but never replaced it as most of what I did (and even stuff I couldn't do, like checking email in supermarket queue) now gets done with my android phone. I seem to get about 10 hours out of my Cliq with about 2 hours of email and browsing news/tech sites while on the commute.

when the paywall sites go t*ts up? ah well I guess he can consign himself to the fact that he will gain a certain level of long fame as we stop saying "buggy whip manufacturers" as a generic term for obsolete industries and start using "Murdoch's News Empire" .

University IT training and education manager... I'll quit when there are no more IT challenged staff or students... which basically means somewhere just before the heat death of the universe. good part to that though is I'll probably have enough long service leave accrued to pull up a comfy chair and watch the last few centuries of that aforementioned event.

you want a 1 cent coin... so.... you want to buy a mixed bag of lollies comprising exactly 1/4 of a gummy bear? right?

are they not some obsolete currency from the age of steam train and gas light era of furlongs, fathoms, miles and ounces? do you need to wear knee length britches and smudge coal soot on you face to use pennies? "thrupenny bit to clean your chim'eny gov'nor?" Here in Australia we ditched the 1 and 2 cent pieces years a go and good riddance to them, every time I travel I get reminded how much of a pain they were coming home with a small bag full of 1 cent and 1 yen coins no vending machine will accept, no shop wants and no money changer will change

posting this on a 7 year old G5 Mac.... this is my main machine (well it is now after the theft of my 2 dual core laptops)... but if you are a little loose and fast on "use" then my old SGI Indi box gutted out and used as a RAID case still gets used 24/7. As does my old employers SGI Challenge L series server, now doing retro fit duties as my beer fridge (now that's seriously essential computer work). far far less regularly I still have my old "first computers" from the 80's - an old Toshiba 3100 286 "laptop" (no battery (never came with one) and no hard disk), a gaggle of old Macs including a 128 an SE and an SE 30, a Commodore 64 and an Amega 1000, all of which get occasionally powered up and played with

actually Ansal is reputed to say that if he took 12 good photos a year then that was a good year.... given he often took dozens of images a day .....

lets call them "programmer guys" (or girls) or something like that just so that we desktop & server support people can get on with the job of trying to support/jury rig solutions/bug find etc their dodgy software so the users can... well... like use it, all with out about having to be lumped in to the same basket as the bug, glitch & BSoD makers.

with NO savings throw!

for some reason browser windows opening with any sort of set page (i.e. NOT blank) really really really jerk my chain.. don't care if its somethingawful or the corporate home page I tend to think less of those who have a set home page (and even less for those who leave the default one on).... ....the only thing worse for me is to come across someone who still hasn't clicked on to tab browsing ... that's something I find worthy of lowering the head, fixing them with a cold stare... and delivering a slowly drawn out deep sigh of contempt. totally illogical I guess...