Max's Miscellaneous Musings

Some time ago, I wrote a post called Big Brother is watching, in which I commented on an article that described how the Dalai Lama's email server was hacked.  It pointed the finger at the Chinese government, and I made some sarcastic comment about how Bi… more »

You'll recall that I recently posted about how my site is now 95% operational, but that visitors to http://www.maxxxie.net/ were being redirected to a page that didn't exist.  It turns out that "visitors", plural, wasn't quite right.  It was "visitor", s… more »

Yay, a new version of Firefox.  I'm not as excited about it as you might think.  It's more one of those "meh" "Yays" instead of a truly ecstatic "Yay". The new version of FF decided to change the way it deals with opening new tabs.  I like control-clic… more »

Dear end user:  When you ring our after-hours emergency service to log a production-affecting emergency, it would be nice if you were actually having a production-stopping emergency.  When I drop everything and call you, only to learn that you (one singl… more »

The thing about iPhone apps is that the more you look, the more you find.  After a week of owning the iPhone, I've so far loaded: Google CommBank Convert Everything White pages Yellow pages Cyclemeter SitOrSquat National Public Toilet Map Toil… more »

MaxBabe got herself an iPhone on new year's eve.  I have long maintained that a phone is a phone is a phone, and should be nothing but a phone. That was until I met the iPhone.  This marvellous piece of technology has turned me around.  And so, in a fi… more »

Windows 7 is not too bad, as a client OS goes.  But I've really been missing the Quick Launch toolbar.  It's seemingly been replaced with a "pin to taskbar" feature, which is OK, I guess, but NOT the Quick Launch.  I've been living with this for a few da… more »

This one's popped up occasionally at work, and now at home in my WinXP-trying-to-talk-to-Win7 network:  "Not enough storage space is available to process this command".  I've seen messages like this that have ultimately wound up being related to group me… more »

I've applied a b2evo mod that allows threaded comments - ie you can see replies to comments nested underneath said comment.  I don't know if a reply to a comment actually generates an outbound email to the original commenter.  I suspect it does not, but… more »

Dear moronic co-worker, If I have taken remote control of your computer, and am in the middle of applying updates to it, do not take that as an opportunity to switch the bloody thing off. There's a reason I locked the console. There's a reason it sa… more »