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Over the past week, I have decided once and for all to keep my computer out of the hands of Streetwise, a popular Apple retailer here in Melbourne.
I have previously written about Streetwise, an Apple Authorised Service Centre, and its policy of holding onto computers while they wait days for replacement parts to arrive so […]

Apple Service Rating Update

For those who’ve asked, here’s an update on the situation with Streetwise and the Apple Service Rating that I wrote about in my last post.
Streetwise replied almost immediately to my email complaint:

Hi Kevin,
I’m not sure why the technician on Saturday would have told you that - perhaps there was some sort of misunderstanding.
I do apologise […]

Streetwise is my local Apple retailer. It’s where I bought my MacBook laptop and my Epson printer, and it’s where I was planning to buy a lot of other computery things in the near future.
Unfortunately, my MacBook is in need of a little in-warranty TLC (a crack has a developed in the casing, a common […]

For the main event for our three-day getaway in and around Marysville, Jess and I went horse riding in Rubicon Valley on a perfect morning. We lucked out and got a guide all to ourselves, so we got to learn a lot more about riding than we had done on our previous ride.
Jess’s horse Bounty […]

I bought my first Mac yesterday—a spiffy, black MacBook. I've spent the first 24 hours with my new computer setting up various means of running Windows on it (Remote Desktop, Boot Camp, and Parallels). In the Mac world, I'm pretty sure that makes me very lame.

If you’ve been watching my Flickr photos lately, you’ll have noticed that Jess and I are getting into geocaching, the world-wide treasure hunt where participants follow GPS coordinates to the locations of hidden caches of goodies.
The one essential tool for geocaching is a GPS receiver (GPSr), which gave me the perfect excuse to add this […]

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The problem is homemade robots usually malfunction, before turning on their creators and going on homicidal rampages.
This is so cool. Someone who attended the Fundamentos Web 2006 day two panel sketched us! See if you can guess which one I am before mousing over the image. You can also check out a photo of the actual event.
I'm madly preparing presentations for two separate conferences at the end of the month (Web Directions and Fundamentos Web). These presentation disasters relieved the stress nicely.
This finding in Google Earth is reason enough to download and install the software if you haven't already. China has built a nearly 1km2 scale model of a 150,000km2 disputed region along its border with India.