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Monthly Archives: June 2008

No invite? Sue you.

Sunday, June 29, 2008

Hanni just pointed this out - boy does not invite 2 classmates to his party and is deemed to have violated their rights. That is absolutely stupidly ridiculous - and I can’t wait until some do-goody teacher/socialworker/headline grabber decides to do the same here. (My money is on the lazy do-nothings called Social workers. No-one [...]

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Echo from the USA

Thursday, June 26, 2008

Finally got my hands on the PS3 demo of Echochrome. Created a US account for a new ID to get it. Also downloaded the PSP version but I can’t use that because the PSP and PS3 already hook up so an error results. But I can’t buy the PS3 game from the US store because [...]

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Safari does not respond

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

This is why I keep Activity Monitor open all the time. Safari does not respond and needs a Force Quit.

This is exactly the same as using Ctrl-Alt-Del on a Windows machine and Ending a process - just needed to say that.. And it happens at the moment at least 3 times every single day. If [...]

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Leopard and the daily reboot

Saturday, June 21, 2008

Open apps: Firefox 3, Safari, Camino, Adium, Smultron, Twitteriffic, Marsedit, Activity Monitor (this always open), Evernote, Shovebox, Skitch, GetDropbox. There may be others, there may be less. It is NOT Spotlight - that is fully off.
Symptom: If I click a dock icon it opens Finder. If I click a link it opens in a new [...]

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Squishy skin

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

2-3 weeks ago my right ankle / achilles area swelled significantly - walking was painful. Couple of very large blisters, lots of weeping from it, took several days to subside. Cause unknown. About 5 days ago the left side of my left hand swelled up (I could not see my knuckles) and began weeping. It [...]

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