Monthly Archives: April 2012

Micropayments & Donations

Posted on April 28, 2012 by Jethro Carr

People generally want to say thanks when others do them a favor, it’s pretty common we shout someone a beer or a coffee, but it’s hard to do this online – assuming that person can even take an online payment … Continue reading →

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Half a Terrabyte

Posted on April 28, 2012 by Jethro Carr

With companies in Australia offering 1TB plans, us New Zealanders have been getting pretty jealous of only having 100GB plans for the same money. Except that a couple days ago, my ISP Snap! upgraded everyone’s data allowance by at least … Continue reading →

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Expressoholic

Posted on April 27, 2012 by Jethro Carr

As much as I love a visit to a fine dining establishment such as Ti Kouka, sometimes it’s nice to just have somewhere you can go for a hearty laid back feed, coffee, beer and just enjoy some solid yet … Continue reading →

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Lord of the Fries

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Jethro Carr

As a New Zealander, Australia is always an attractive option to consider as a destination for both holidays and work experiences – better money, better weather (assuming you like heat), more opportunities and a chance to experience living in a … Continue reading →

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DAViCal 1.0.2 on RHEL 5 & 6

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Jethro Carr

To follow up on my previous post about DAViCal, I’ve built and published RPMs for DAViCal itself and the php-awl dependency. These are based off provided spec files from the project and tweaked somewhat to be more suitable for RHEL … Continue reading →

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DAViCal, awkward name, great features

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Jethro Carr

A reoccurring theme of this blog is that I love to be able to use open standards and open source for storing and accessing my information – biggest example is of course IMAP for email, but I also use tools … Continue reading →

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Grand Theft Auto

Posted on April 22, 2012 by Jethro Carr

Had a wonderful wake up this morning with a call from my property manager, advising that thieves had attempted to steal my car. Apparently a tenant called in 111 around 7am in the morning, finding my car with the lights … Continue reading →

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Auckland Harbour

Posted on April 21, 2012 by Jethro Carr

Took this on my way into Auckland CBD for Wordcamp this morning – Auckland has a lot of faults, but it is quite a pretty region (or would be without the massive sprawl and motorways all over it).

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Leosticks are a gateway drug

Posted on April 14, 2012 by Jethro Carr

At linux.conf.au earlier this year, the guys behind Freetronics gave every attendee a free Leostick Arduino compatible board. As I predicted at the time, this quickly became the gateway drug – having been given an awesome 8-bit processor that can … Continue reading →

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Leave them kids alone!

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Jethro Carr

I’ve been reading a disturbing number of articles lately advocating and promoting software solutions for the monitoring of children’s smartphones and computers. I don’t have too much issue with children having software on their computers for filtering access to the … Continue reading →

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