Tony – Page 14

Auckland Sometimes You Disgust Me

I just went to the 2013 Farmers Santa Parade in Auckland, the 80th such event and what a day. Great weather and great fun. The music the crowds the kids it was all great. And then there was this: What is wrong with you. You get a great day out, you don’t have to pay… read more…
Who the heck is JWT and TWA

Going to work on 21/11/2013 I saw the above sign above Econo Lodge at the corner of Albert and Wellesley Sts. Normally there is a sign advertising the NZ Herald but today there was a sign for JWT and TWA. The natural assumption was it was two people one with initials JWT and another with… read more…
Frustration escaping rent by buying

It seems that anyone who can raise a pencil has an opinion on how to fix the housing affordability issues in Auckland. Housing is such an emotive issue and I am writing this based almost solely on memory so if there are inaccuracies you should probably put it down to drained brain cells as much… read more…
Cron job to check and if needed restart MythBackend

I am running MythTV 0.25 on Fedora 16. The problem I have is that sometimes the backend stops responding for reasons I have not figured out. Until I resolve the problem I want a mechanism that will restart the backend when it stops responding. The solution I took was to create shell script that would… read more…
AtomicParsley tagging for iTunes MP4 files

AtomicParsley is a real cool command line tool that creates files that work perfectly with iTunes/iPhone etc. It runs under Windows and works really reliably. I use it all the time to create files that will be correctly tagged for my iPhone. It is the best most reliable command line tool to do this I… read more…
Go Team New Zealand

[satellite gallery=9 align=center valign=center captions=on spash=on] Wow wasn’t it a great show, I really enjoyed watching the races. I didn’t watch them all but I certainly watched the last ones and it was really exciting. The catamarans are so incredibly fast and I just can’t believe that they just about flying. Team Emirates New Zealand… read more…
Nikon Coolpix S8200 Review

Over the last 45 years I have been snapping away with little more than box brownies through film SLRs to todays digital cameras. My current budget dictates a maximum spend of around NZ$250 – firmly in the mid range of budget cameras. Like many I have been through a plethora of digital cameras starting with… read more…
Lasagna

Overview ======== This recipe is for our family. So we need to do things like finely grating the carrots so they are not visible. Ingredients =========== 2 good sized Onions, 250g, finely chopped – Try 2 next time 2 medium carrots grated 150g – Try more next time Maggi “Lasagna Bake” mixed in 1/2 cup… read more…
Editing menu shortcuts in Gnome 3 on Fedora 16

Just a short note about changing menu items in gnome in fedora 16. The location where the shortcuts are held for everyone is: /usr/share/applications You can have user specific menu items, just like windows and this is under the users profile. I believe these are under: ~/.local/share/applications The application shortcut files are pretty intuitive and… read more…
The agony of buying a good cheap toaster

How long since your last toaster died and you had to go out in a hurry to find a new one only to find that they are incredibly expensive. In the past I have tested the idea of buying an expensive appliance on the basis that if you get a good one then you won’t… read more…