studiowhiz ramblings

A great video interview with Bill Gates & Steve Jobs discussing how Apple introduced Microsoft to the world of Applications. Microsoft owes Apple big for giving them the leg up into that market.

We’re a cynical bunch aren’t we. If TV & Movies desensitize us to violence then the internet desensitizes us to charity & needs.

I’ve had a couple of things happening recently that have highlighted the issues faced when wanting to or needing too raise funds online and just how hard it is becoming to raise awareness and funds.

Lets take the case of my very good friend over at webhelp …
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My very good friend who runs www.webhelp.co.nz had a horrific weekend with his parents involved in a head on car crash. His mother has minor injuries (air bags help!!) but his dad suffered some bad injuries and is still in ICU (intensive care).

Webhelp has set up a donations page on his blog & I am asking you all to consider donations. Skip a coffee today and give the $5 to webhelp. I’m going on record and saying ANY “buy me a coffee” money that comes in from Studiowhiz for Feb & March I will give to him. Can you skip one coffee and give something?

» Donate money to webhelp now to help his parents.

A simple recipe to enjoy on a lovely summer evening

• Chop onions, greenpepper, chilli, black pepper, salt (to your taste buds), fry in olive oil
• Grill bacon until well done, then add to base
• Cook up some el dente pasta (any type you want)
• Gently fry some prawns in olive oil , add garlic and plenty ginger
• Sprinkle generously with parmesan cheese
• Add fresh Basil leaves at the very end
• Mix it up –serve warm with a cold beer

A lovely simple recipe shared by Dwayne Alexander of Live My Goals.

Like my writing (see last post) I don’t make any claims about being a great photographer. Heck the only camera I use at the moment is a 4 year old Sony point and shoot digital. However I’ve enjoyed a little fame for some of my shots.

My latest one came after a trip with my brother into 4×4 land. Now I’ve not been 4×4ing since I was a kid (don’t ask, it as too long ago). So when I announced to my brother (who is a 4×4 king in some circles) that I had bought an 18year old truck he said “Lets go 4×4ing”. Long story short - he was the one stuck in the mud for 5 hours.
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So, Mr Webhelp, it’s a challenge you want is it? A post titled “StumbleUpon - 99 friends and growing” was published today, not to mention the fact someone was gloating today. Of course I’ve been on StumbleUpon longer although I only have 20 friends.

Here I have laying down the gauntlet for you Mr Webhelp, first person to 250 “friends/contacts”

Contacts can be:

• friends on StumbleUpon
• contacts on LinkedIn

So, right now I have 91 on LinkedIn and 20 on StumbleUpon, you have 99 on StumbleUpon and 57 on Linked in - so you are leading by 45 contacts.

Winner buys the looser, hmm lets see here, oh wait that should be Looser buys the Winner - A Burger Fuel lunch?

UPDATE (5th Feb 08):
Mr K:
- LinkedIn: 104
- StumbleUpon: 24
- Total: 128

Webhelp:
- LinkedIn: 57
- StumbleUpon: 99
- Total: 156

Anyone reading this?

• Join me on LinkedIn today
• Become a friend of Studiowhiz on StumbleUpon

Don’t get me wrong, I love WordPress, the guys over at Automatic are great. But seriously WordPress sucks, like really really sucks.

I’ve posted before about why wordpress needs an auto-update feature, which btw would be easy to do. I’m now moaning because Wordpress is really really crap at knowing things. See for a while now my blog has been telling me that my Wordpress version is out of date, and my plugins are out of date. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s wasn’t today, it was tomorrow, 8 years ago. We stood in a fancy church in front of a fellow in white robes. She was beautiful, I was in Adidas tramping boots. It was a life time ago, it was yesterday. It’s been a happy time, it’s been a hard time, we’ve laughed, we’ve cried. We’ve welcomed a little one to join us.  8 years, it’s not that long but still it’s a day to remember, a day to pray for many many more years to come.

The day I said “I Do”.

I love apple.com/trailers, I could spend hours on this site checking out new movies coming up etc etc.

In fact today at work I stole 10 mins to check out the trailer for KungFu Panda. I get home tonight and want to show the trailer to my wife. Well, the page is no more. It’s gone & instead I’m faced with Apple’s 404 page, including a link to the defunct movie trailers.

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Isn’t it funny the things we think are going to go great, don’t always. The things we throw together with little forethought often pan out better than we expect.

Case in point, “Stop writing and increase your traffic“, a post I threw together in minutes while waiting for a mate to pick me up for a Dad’s night out. I really wasn’t thinking “This’ll be a great post” it was more, “Gosh I better put something on Studiowhiz” Read the rest of this entry »