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Best Buy Back

Best Buy Back

Jan 9, 2011

OK, this is one for the gadget junkies. You know who you are: you’re the ones who line up overnight at the Apple Store to be first in to buy the new iPhone 5, or the iPad 2. Or the latest Google Android phone. You simply must have the very latest and greatest. But that means that you probably have a very full drawer, stacked with all of your cast-offs....

The On Line Sales Debate

The On Line Sales Debate

Jan 5, 2011

Gerry Harvey, the billionaire shopkeeper, is at risk of turning this discussion into a mass debate. His premise that people are buying from overseas retailers, via the internet, because they can avoid paying the GST is both emotional and wrong. Let’s try to avoid the emotion, and the crap, and let’s look at a couple of very simple case histories....

Useless Fact.

Useless Fact.

Jan 2, 2011

Welcome to the year 2011. Brought to you by the number 1. For those who are not too numerically challenged, you may have already noticed that 2011 is a prime number. Divisible only by itself, and 1. But 2011 is also a number than can be achieved by aggregating the sum of another 11 prime numbers, those being 157, 163, 167, 173, 179, 181, 191, 193, 197, 199, and...

Mamma Done Took My Kodachrome Away

Kodachrome Box

Jan 2, 2011

Ashes to ashes, Dust to dust, It is with a great deal of sadness and fond memories that we put to its final resting place, that most wonderful of films, Kodachrome. In ASA ratings from 25 and 64 and beyond (ISO doesn’t seem right for this film). last year Kodak announce the imminent demise of this film, and now it has come to pass. Kodak used to have a...

Android Virus

Android Virus

Jan 2, 2011

There has been word circulating over the last few days if a virus that’s affecting Android smart phones. The virus, named Geinimi, is understood to have already infected up to several hundred thousand phones, although security advisors have you to fully understand what the end purpose of this virus will be. If you have a copy of any of Monkey Jump 2,...