Posts by kiwicmc
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Speaker: Generation Zero: Let's Grow Up,
While I have a fair amount of sympathy for the original post's ideas, I sit here in terrace house in the inner western suburb of Balmain in Sydney - a mighty 190 square metres of what the Australians laughingly call a section. You could call think of it as a very short mullet. Nothing at the front and a small paved courtyard for the party at the back. It's small... very small, and made smaller by the existence of two boys 9 and 13, one who plays the drums... I dream nightly of a quarter acre pavlova paradise.
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Hard News: Music: In before Christmas,
Another in a line of soppy Xmas songs that I quietly love....
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Hey Murray, looking at these photos it occurred to me that I wanted to thank you for your sterling work with Land of the Good Groove at Zanzibar - those nights remain, however many years later, some of my fondest memories. You reckoned we couldn't dance to Shake by Otis Redding, but we gave it a bash anyway...
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Hard News: The Velvet Underground Etc., in reply to Jonathan Ganley,
There are some fantastic photos on that site, clicked on one link, stayed until all photos looked at and captions read.
Arhh, it takes me back - Whatever happened to Barney and Titch from the Auckland bootboys?
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Hard News: Friday Music: Return of the brothers, in reply to kiwicmc,
I did enjoy the last 13 minutes though...
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Hard News: Friday Music: Return of the brothers, in reply to JacksonP,
I saw the Cure at the Town Hall many years ago, one of the biggest let downs ever - talk about lack of on stage patter. Every song was prefaced with "This one's called ..." and your own Manc accent.
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Hard News: The not-so-Evil Empire,
Here's another couple - in app purchases being enabled by default - that's evil. Dodgy iTunes song titles and artists with similar names to popular tween crap pop songs fooling dumb dads with superior musical taste... The 12 year old still hasn't forgiven me for paying for a Bruno Mars Piano Tribute
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Hard News: The not-so-Evil Empire, in reply to Kiwiiano,
I base this on my 4 year old MBP, I've upgraded the memory from 4 to 8GB after a couple of years, and recently the hard disk to a 512GB SSD. Both these upgrades (non- Apple h/w incidentally) have meant that I can still use it for my fairly heavy duty needs. The construction of the MBP has meant that it is mostly in good condition, unlike the Dell XPS that literally disintegrated after 3 years.
If you think you'll be happy with Sandy Bridge CPU, 8GB and a 512GB SSD by 2020, then I've got a 8 year old G4 I'll sell you.
Actually I wouldn't sell you that, I love that thing...
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Hard News: The not-so-Evil Empire,
A couple of comments: Firstly those password nags from Apple should be taken notice of. My iTunes account was drained of funds recently, having been protected by a not entirely stupid password, but not the best either. Apple did refund the money after a bit of whinging from me. What that does say to me is that bad folk are targeting iTunes accounts with brute force attacks - fortunately I didn't have a credit card attached (and won't have in the future either).
One thing Apple have disappointed me with is the non-upgradeable (or repairable) Retina Pro Mac book, essentially this beautiful piece of kit is a throw away after 4 years...
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OnPoint: SECRET MILITARY LULZ,
Why are they sending work emails to an xtra account? Sackable offense in some companies I have worked for. Mind you - I've been guilty myself when the 50MB work Exchange account overflows...