Monthly Archives: March 2009

Don't get caught short-cut

There are some OS X keyboard shortcuts you don’t want to forget when, for example, your bluetooth mouse runs out of juice and you can’t find your tether-mouse, like, control-F2 (highlight the menu bar). Others you need to know when the computer is off or staring up; e.g. hold down the C key to boot [...]

I felt the earth move – pity my wife had nothing to do with it.

A short time ago we felt an earth tremor shake the house (I’ve just had the bloody thing re-stumped – I thought). Twenty minutes of frantic Googleing and we had the answer a quake measured at magnitude 4.6 occurred north of Korumburra (aprox 92km away) was reported by Geoscience Australia. A short time after this [...]