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I wrote this as a post on Mactalk but friends I’ve linked the article to don’t have an account there and can’t be bothered to make one. So here it is. It was a reply to someone mentioning the new Star Wars MMO. I’ll be excited if they release a Mac client for it. Otherwise, it’ll [...]

Ben Elthm at newmatilda.com asks, Is There a Recession Brewing in Our Housing Bubble? It has some fairly serious implications for those of us who don’t own a home but are looking a buying. I’ve personally been staying out of the property market in Sydney because of the huge unaffordability of it. What Ben’s saying seems [...]

… and even though everything Peter predicted has come true, there are STILL people ignoring him.

Watch Peter Schiff from Euro Pacific Capital as he schools Art Laffer on the economy: Check out some of the other videos from Peter Schiff. This guy was an advisor to Ron Paul during his run for the Republican nomination. He’s not looking quite so crazy now, is he? Its really interesting how desperate people are when [...]

Released a minor update to NodeQuota. Internode have changed the URL for grabbing the usage data from, and require an update to all meters to use the new URL. 1.0.7 implements this change, and if you don’t upgrade to 1.0.7, NodeQuota will stop working when Internode shut down the old URL this month.

So, I reverted back to Wordpress. I didn’t make many posts using Movable Type, but will try to import them at some point. I might not bother. The main reason for switching back to Wordpress? There are a few things, really. Themes The themes available for MT are quite limited these days. Most people seem to be working [...]

This fixes a few embarrassing oopses and implements keychain access for storing your passwords. This hopefully stabilises the 1.0.x tree and I can now start working on 1.1. Changelog Fixed the Updates preference panel. Switched to using the Keychain to store your password. Secure! NodeQuota will automatically migrate your password from the insecure preferences file to Keychain. You [...]

I’ve finally had some time this weekend to work on some issues people raised and to improve some bits of the code. Version 1.0.5: Integrated the Sparkle Framework. This framework provides an easy method for Cocoa applications to automatically update. Fixed Cut & Paste shortcuts in the Username and Password fields in the preferences panel. When opening the preferences [...]

So I was looking at the API for writing blog clients a week back with the intention of writing an iPhone wordpress app. They beat me! Just goes to show how great an idea it is. All my best ideas are done by other people. Buggy as hell though. Crashed often while adding photos.

Trying from an area that doesnt have a hundred Bigpond testers on it helps the speed a little.