The View from Down Here

The musings of an Aussie seeing the world from waist high.... from a wheelchair

Tag: tech

the long wait is over

My circumstantially imposed technology retreat is finally over.
BoB — my new modem with VOIP arrived yesterday after being sent to the wrong box number and then being unable to be delivered to a box at all.
I set him up last night as visitors were here when he arrived. It took a bit of fiddling as [...]

tweet tweet

i used twitter yesterday much like I think it was intended, or at least a very handy way of using it to broadcast a problem PB was having with Vodafone (the Australian phone company) and his iPhone. It wasn’t solved through the tweeting but the up to the minute information was shared and further broadcasted. [...]

the curse of the early adopters

Ok, so there has been a rather prolonged semi-silence from this blog
There are probably a few reasons for that. However the main one is technology.
I’m very into technology as I’ve declared here before; Particularly Mac tech. So when Snow Leopard – the new operating system- came out I was bound to upgrade before too long. [...]

Less mousing around

Interesting post giving an account of computing with limited use of the mouse from someone who has a recurring injury disability

The hard rock bottom of my drive

I am writing this post on the iPhone app for Wordpress. It is 1 am on Monday morning and I have had a bad tech week!
I am sitting here watching a fairly clever graphical representation of my hard drive bring scanned and (hopefully repaired) by Disk Genius 2. A set of cats hair like they [...]

Iphone apologetics

Current Mood: HappyI get teased (mercially) about my geekism. This is not fair as the intentions are generally noble ones of simplicity, ecology and organisation.
However there is some truth to the ribbing as I was pondering today;

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