Yes you heard that,

Being a pretty much every day Twitter follower I do have the occasion to notice a few things.

Why do I follow Twitter and what hooks us in? My answer would be that if you look enough, follow enough, you tend to find out MUCH more about what is going on in the world that you normally will never find out about.

If you are a news follower, you will be aware that if you saw something really juicy and then try to send a link to it later, you will find it gone. Heck, my dad, who lived in Florida at the time of New Orleans did not get to see the part of news footage I saw on the TV in NZ that’s for sure, when he said – “NO ONE was seriously hurt or fatally injured” (Thats CNN Brainwashing for you)”.

Back to Twitter. I was hopeful that they were going to make some successful and useful changes to Twitter in the large amount of down time that they have had today. The big Whale being carried by birds is cute saying “Twitter is over Capacity” but it was getting ridiculous.

Go Here to see Collected Twitter Fail Screens

Now that Twittervillie is back after said updates and we have all been for our suggested Ice Cream and been told to “chill out”, things are not that much improved. More »

No service on the internet is perfect and I never would expect them to be. What is always refreshing to see is when a website is well prepared for it.
There are some really well done error and fail screens out there, and from now on, when I see one, the ‘Print Screen’ button is hit straight away.
Here are two that I have gathered from Twitter so far, and actually hope they mess up again to give me more! (I know, that sounds weird). More »

Don't forget the Cats Prezzie!!

This is Tommy my evil sidekick…… All donations to getting him a decent Christmas prezzie this year would be gratefully accepted! Help me, my family is in grave danger – we must appease the cat!

We take Paypal – contact me, cheerz :p

Typical Craptasia

Well, I think you can guess from the post title that I am not impressed with Camtasia.

I truly understand why Camtasia is a very popular screen recording tool. It is $299 USD versus over $1000 USD for the better alternative from Adobe which is ‘Captivate’. What I find most amusing is that Camtasia shows Adobe clearly as if they are a ‘valued’ customer. Unless Adobe own Techsmith I find it highly unlikely that Adobe would use Camtasia and only purchase it to confirm that Adobe / Macromedia are obviously far better equipped to produce Adobe flash movies – don’t you think?! This brings me to question all the other big names that Camtasia push such as IBM on their customer list somewhat!

Not everyone has 300 to 1000 USD to throw away on software so I highly recomend you Google “open source screen recording” and get something FAR better for FREE!

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I have moved back to England since this was written… and I am MUCH Happier!

Welcome to the ‘Winging Pom’

I have now been in New Zealand for over 4 years. I am a UK citizen, and like just about all the British I had my gripes about England.
The high population,
the crime,
the bomb scares,
white English being a minority,
not being able to wear a football shirt on World cup day without getting arrested for it,
no smoking allowed in your OWN car or at a bus stop,
men getting gang raped by men,
letters from school requiring YOU to sign that the school is not responsible for your child finding or getting hurt by hypodermic needles in the playground.
being burgled so much that insurance wont cover you,
burglars throwing concrete slabs through your sleeping child’s bedroom window, and still raiding the house even though you’re in and awake….

SURE, I have a fair amount of UK Grievances up my sleeve.

I moved to NZ more to rescue my mum from a con artist over here. Yes the place is really pretty, but there is only so much ‘nothingness’ you can take. For all those with the Rose tinted glasses view of New Zealand I thought I would share a few truths about this luscious green land. More »