Yesterday, Surfin Safari introduced a new Javascript debugger for the Apple Macintosh web browser Safari called Drosera.
This would be lovely if you were a programmer (or could think of anything good to program, which I never seem to be able to do) but...
Drosera is actually a carnivorous plant (no, I haven't actually seen one in action). And if you have one of those nagging coughs that never goes away long after your cold has disappeared, you should try the homeopathic Drosera treatment to fix it.
It's worked for me and a number of friends and family. Definitely available in "some" heathfood and chemists (drugstores) in the UK and NZ. Not sure about elsewhere. Weleda is one brand that makes it.
And no, it doesn't cost a fortune.
Happy breathing.
Thursday, June 29, 2006
Saturday, May 27, 2006
Google Earth Mac problem - fixed
For want of posting this to all the various Mac software sites I go to, or MacFixit where it will disappear behind a pay per view wall, I thought I'd put this here.
I downloaded the latest version of Google Earth for Mac OS X and it didn't work. It would start up and before the Earth showed it would unexpectedly quit. I deleted the other Google Earth files that were around from the old version (in Application Support and Preferences) and this had no effect.
After checking the Internet I found a number of similar comments - and quite a few more saying everything worked fine.
So, just in case, I moved the application to the Desktop (rather than in the folder where I'd filed it) and it worked fine. Now it's in my Applications folder but I think the problem may have been that it was in a folder with a space in it i.e. it was in a folder called "My Applications ƒ". Either that or it was the non-standard character on the end of the folder name.
They may fix this with the next version or other people may have mentioned a similar fix but I thought I'd mention it in case it helps someone (figuring if anyone indexes Blogger it would be Google!).
S :)
I downloaded the latest version of Google Earth for Mac OS X and it didn't work. It would start up and before the Earth showed it would unexpectedly quit. I deleted the other Google Earth files that were around from the old version (in Application Support and Preferences) and this had no effect.
After checking the Internet I found a number of similar comments - and quite a few more saying everything worked fine.
So, just in case, I moved the application to the Desktop (rather than in the folder where I'd filed it) and it worked fine. Now it's in my Applications folder but I think the problem may have been that it was in a folder with a space in it i.e. it was in a folder called "My Applications ƒ". Either that or it was the non-standard character on the end of the folder name.
They may fix this with the next version or other people may have mentioned a similar fix but I thought I'd mention it in case it helps someone (figuring if anyone indexes Blogger it would be Google!).
S :)
Sunday, April 02, 2006
Caffeine - still non
Well,
One and a half weeks post caffeine - I'm still alive.
Almost a week to the day I finally had a day without ANY headache. Bliss.
The fact that I also had a day off and spent it with a beautiful young lady helped too ;)
Anyway, I think I've benefited from the exercise. I'm certainly more perky in the morning (I'm not a morning person) with none of the needing a coffee to feel alive. I don't know if it's my imagination but my skin seems healthier - although that's probably my liver finally kicking in (don't underestimate it!!).
The proof will be a few weeks without headaches - which would be a pleasant return to normality.
In the meantime it is amazing how hard it is to avoid coffee, tea, Coke, and chocolate in London. Water, fruit juice, and camomile tea for me. So much for drugs, sex and rock and roll!
One and a half weeks post caffeine - I'm still alive.
Almost a week to the day I finally had a day without ANY headache. Bliss.
The fact that I also had a day off and spent it with a beautiful young lady helped too ;)
Anyway, I think I've benefited from the exercise. I'm certainly more perky in the morning (I'm not a morning person) with none of the needing a coffee to feel alive. I don't know if it's my imagination but my skin seems healthier - although that's probably my liver finally kicking in (don't underestimate it!!).
The proof will be a few weeks without headaches - which would be a pleasant return to normality.
In the meantime it is amazing how hard it is to avoid coffee, tea, Coke, and chocolate in London. Water, fruit juice, and camomile tea for me. So much for drugs, sex and rock and roll!
Monday, March 27, 2006
Caffeine - non
I've been quite the healthy eater in the last few years. I am the sad "owner" of one of the crappest livers in the world. When I used to drink alcohol (which I don't now - and don't really miss), I used to get a headache before I had any fun - that's right, instant hangover. Kind of shows why I don't really miss it - not that I could ever drink to forget, I'd still remember it all anyway.
Well, due to more unhealthiness due to being healthy, I decided to give up caffeine last week after a bit of advice and reading on the Internet....and saw lots on caffeine withdrawal symptoms.
Caffeine withdrawal symptoms which you can apparently get without giving up caffeine - most notably so when you get a headache at the end of the day because you didn't get a coffee (or tea or Coke) during the day.
So, 24 hours later, sickness, nausea, and a loitering headache. Just like a bad hangover. I was only on about 2 coffees a day!!
I struggled through work and got home and went straight to bed and didn't feel "alive" until around 6am. I know I didn't feel alive because I'd made sure I'd had plenty of water. And more water, and more water.
The next day, oddly perky but with a "tiny, tiny" headache lurking in the background and the edge of my consciousness - the type of headache you don't notice until you have a rest then go "ouch".
4 days later. Still with the micro-headache (although I have been avoiding painkillers since "withdrawal day". Feeling more get up and go in the morning though.
Lets see if this all works and my general health improves.
I'm not saying that caffeine was the cause of my problems but apparently it may have been blocking my crap immune system from recovering as it should.
We'll see!
Well, due to more unhealthiness due to being healthy, I decided to give up caffeine last week after a bit of advice and reading on the Internet....and saw lots on caffeine withdrawal symptoms.
Caffeine withdrawal symptoms which you can apparently get without giving up caffeine - most notably so when you get a headache at the end of the day because you didn't get a coffee (or tea or Coke) during the day.
So, 24 hours later, sickness, nausea, and a loitering headache. Just like a bad hangover. I was only on about 2 coffees a day!!
I struggled through work and got home and went straight to bed and didn't feel "alive" until around 6am. I know I didn't feel alive because I'd made sure I'd had plenty of water. And more water, and more water.
The next day, oddly perky but with a "tiny, tiny" headache lurking in the background and the edge of my consciousness - the type of headache you don't notice until you have a rest then go "ouch".
4 days later. Still with the micro-headache (although I have been avoiding painkillers since "withdrawal day". Feeling more get up and go in the morning though.
Lets see if this all works and my general health improves.
I'm not saying that caffeine was the cause of my problems but apparently it may have been blocking my crap immune system from recovering as it should.
We'll see!
Thursday, July 07, 2005
London
You know you're living in a totally separate type of London world when you can get to work oblivious to a major terrorist incident.
I walk to work and avoided the total shutdown of the London Underground (the Tube) and a large part of the bus network. When the Tube is out of order, you might as well rule out ANY type of transport in London - the push on effect means everything else gets overwhelmed.
At work, the day wasn't any better. Working for a news organisation would, you'd think, make it easier to keep on top of the facts. It doesn't. It just makes you have greater access to the mis-information, hearsay, and general lack of information that you would get as you sit at home watching BBC News and Sky News.
Credit goes to the BBC for their reporting style. Body count (not a nice term but accurate) only listed when confirmed - therefore at 2 for most of the day despite the "totalled" double-decker bus that must have had major casualties. Also for only reporting it as a terrorist incident once this had been confirmed - London has had a huge number of transport related deaths in recent years from plain bad maintenance - no terrorists required.
Now the accurate details are coming out, we can, well "panic" based on facts rather than "gossip".
It's so sad for those people and their families effected by this - again violence hits the innocent. :(
You appreciate your friends on a day like this. Thank you friends!
I walk to work and avoided the total shutdown of the London Underground (the Tube) and a large part of the bus network. When the Tube is out of order, you might as well rule out ANY type of transport in London - the push on effect means everything else gets overwhelmed.
At work, the day wasn't any better. Working for a news organisation would, you'd think, make it easier to keep on top of the facts. It doesn't. It just makes you have greater access to the mis-information, hearsay, and general lack of information that you would get as you sit at home watching BBC News and Sky News.
Credit goes to the BBC for their reporting style. Body count (not a nice term but accurate) only listed when confirmed - therefore at 2 for most of the day despite the "totalled" double-decker bus that must have had major casualties. Also for only reporting it as a terrorist incident once this had been confirmed - London has had a huge number of transport related deaths in recent years from plain bad maintenance - no terrorists required.
Now the accurate details are coming out, we can, well "panic" based on facts rather than "gossip".
It's so sad for those people and their families effected by this - again violence hits the innocent. :(
You appreciate your friends on a day like this. Thank you friends!
Thursday, June 30, 2005
Once in a "n" experience
I work in IT.
I work with, and own Apple Macintoshs. I do so because they are much easier to fix when they go wrong, they go wrong less, they're easier to use, they're great hardware and a great operating system as well.
In the old days (5 years ago), Macs used to crash more than Windows - but they rebooted quite happily where Windows PCs got terminal on a regular basis.
These days, the new Mac operating system - OS X (ten) - rarely if ever crashes. In fact, I barely ever turn off my laptop at all (I just close the lid, so it goes to sleep). It crashes about once every 3 months and the Mac doesn't get spyware, adware, or viruses (yet, at least!).
Therefore, when it does crash, it is damnably irritating (putting it politely). I was in a bad mood last. I was tired. No, I wasn't hungry and poor too!! But I had one of those once in 3 month crashes.
Damn it!
I work with, and own Apple Macintoshs. I do so because they are much easier to fix when they go wrong, they go wrong less, they're easier to use, they're great hardware and a great operating system as well.
In the old days (5 years ago), Macs used to crash more than Windows - but they rebooted quite happily where Windows PCs got terminal on a regular basis.
These days, the new Mac operating system - OS X (ten) - rarely if ever crashes. In fact, I barely ever turn off my laptop at all (I just close the lid, so it goes to sleep). It crashes about once every 3 months and the Mac doesn't get spyware, adware, or viruses (yet, at least!).
Therefore, when it does crash, it is damnably irritating (putting it politely). I was in a bad mood last. I was tired. No, I wasn't hungry and poor too!! But I had one of those once in 3 month crashes.
Damn it!
Wednesday, June 29, 2005
Whether goes the weather
London weather is different from the rest of the United Kingdom.
Romantic movies from London always has nice, soft falls of snow - think Bridget Jones Diary and Love, Actually.
In London we've been lucky in the last couple of years to get one or two days of snow in winter. The rest of the United Kingdom, yes, London no.
When I first arrived - the first two years here were different degrees of overcast weather - now we're actually getting proper seasons. We had a couple of years of heatwaves in summer (read: normal hot weather elsewhere) and a bit of snow in winter. Cool (or rather hot then cool!),
London's also known for it's rain - well that's wrong too normally. In the normal course of events, it is never more than drizzle. I didn't need a raincoat until I went to Paris!
Well, these last few weeks, we've had some fun weather. Swelteringly hot weather, followed by thunder storms and torrential rain. Hey, I've got soaked twice but what fun. Yesterday, there was so much thunder and lightening that my view East looked like the East End was being bombed like in World War Two!
Cheap entertainment anyway - especially when 2 minutes after I'd said to my visiting mother, "I don't mind a bit of rain", the heavens opened once again and I got soaked.
Ha, ha.
Romantic movies from London always has nice, soft falls of snow - think Bridget Jones Diary and Love, Actually.
In London we've been lucky in the last couple of years to get one or two days of snow in winter. The rest of the United Kingdom, yes, London no.
When I first arrived - the first two years here were different degrees of overcast weather - now we're actually getting proper seasons. We had a couple of years of heatwaves in summer (read: normal hot weather elsewhere) and a bit of snow in winter. Cool (or rather hot then cool!),
London's also known for it's rain - well that's wrong too normally. In the normal course of events, it is never more than drizzle. I didn't need a raincoat until I went to Paris!
Well, these last few weeks, we've had some fun weather. Swelteringly hot weather, followed by thunder storms and torrential rain. Hey, I've got soaked twice but what fun. Yesterday, there was so much thunder and lightening that my view East looked like the East End was being bombed like in World War Two!
Cheap entertainment anyway - especially when 2 minutes after I'd said to my visiting mother, "I don't mind a bit of rain", the heavens opened once again and I got soaked.
Ha, ha.
Monday, June 27, 2005
World Without Borders
It's a small world.
In the space of a day, I meet up with my mother (who's English but lives in NZ) who is visiting London via Dubai; talk to a beautiful American (in America); a cute Australian (in London); another cool Australian (in London); a lovely Montenegrin (where's that? - near London); and a feisty French girl (in London); and a Brunein (not sure about that term - in NZ).
That's just the personal interactions let alone talking to people in shops and whatever.
If they can fix the time zone issue ( I need some sleep), I'll be fine.
Hi world!
In the space of a day, I meet up with my mother (who's English but lives in NZ) who is visiting London via Dubai; talk to a beautiful American (in America); a cute Australian (in London); another cool Australian (in London); a lovely Montenegrin (where's that? - near London); and a feisty French girl (in London); and a Brunein (not sure about that term - in NZ).
That's just the personal interactions let alone talking to people in shops and whatever.
If they can fix the time zone issue ( I need some sleep), I'll be fine.
Hi world!
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