Opinion Road

Google Reader iPhone App: problems

The Google Reader iPhone App (or any reader application for that matter) and Desktop Readers are the types of interfaces [and if not the model for those] that will eventually the replace age-old practise of scanning broadsheet newspapers, the writing for which is already on the wall.  This makes these types of UIs crucial in [...]

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GMail - too much space is never enough

What a full GMail inbox looks like I always wondered what GMail would do if, and whatsmore if I even could, reach/ed the capacity of my GMail account.  Well, as if to prove one of the corollary of Parkinson’s Law, today I discovered the limit of GMail’s patience with by hammering it (as an ‘email mule’) [...]

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Trust Me

I would (if I knew what you were trying to say) Having been a fan of Thomas Cavanagh in Ed, I so very much want to like this show, but I am just not sure how it wants me to feel.  Eric McCormack plays Mason, the newly appointed Creative Director of the Mink Group, after the [...]

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Transporter 3

I am fan, but this is Woeful Transporter 1 was fabulously B grade but at its core, a good vehicle for a thin, but action-packed, story.  Transporter 2 was ludicrously funny a decent-enough plot and good martial arts screnes to keep you interested.  Transporter 3 however .. well: Jason Statham & Luc Besson - you should [...]

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The 15 Strangest Buildings of the World

1. The Crooked House (Sopot, Poland) 2. Forest Spiral - Hundertwasser Building (Darmstadt, Germany) 3. The Torre Galatea Figueres (Spain) 4. Ferdinand Cheval Palace a.k.a Ideal Palace (France) 5. The Basket Building (Ohio, United States) 6. Kansas City Public Library (Missouri, United States) 6. The Parking Garage opposite the Kansas City Public Library (Missouri, United States) * 6. Kansas City Public Library [...]

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Crane Driver Employment Opportunity: Dubai

Applications urgently sought .. anybody? Lacking perspective in your current job? Note quite “curvature of the earth”, but from almost 1km up (801m / 2,620ft), this might have presented a quicker resolution to the claims by Bacon, Copernicus, Galileo, Columbus, and Magellan. Links: burjdubaiskyscraper.com | David Hobcote Photography Source: E-mail (thank you Geoff!)

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Tracking ADSL Data Usage (Bandwidth) on iiNet

Recommended software: iiUsage For those of use below the equator (where data allowances are still measured and capped), monitoring bandwidth usage is usually a case of logging into to ISP control panel page.  iiNet, for example, have Toolbox - a reasonable utility, but a pain to login if all you want to know is our current [...]

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Book Review “Eats, Shoots, & Leaves”

by Lynne Truss Okay, so on the surface, a book described as “Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuaction” doesn’t exactly sound  like a riveting read, and it’s not - but, it will have you laughing out loud in the most public of places.  I’m not a grammarian, but Ms Truss possesses a command of English that is [...]

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Proof that Outlook 2007 is a Resource Hog

Having recently doubled my PC memory, I was not surprsied to find that running five fat (’phat’?) applications at the same was a lot less painful with less need for the OS to use virtual memory (virutal RAM at a snails pace via your hard disk). However, upon returning to my computer today, I was suprised [...]

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Fundamental Differences between Men & Women?

Workflow Charts Finally Put to Good Use I am the last to argue the differences between men and women (think “Men are from Mars ..”), because whilst I believe that generalisation is an excellent tool for making an argument (I think Aristotle had something so say on the issue), it’s just too arbitrary a line to [...]

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