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My bike show tickets arrived!

Finally! I am going on Wednesday 2 Dec with Gary. If anyone else wants to meet up or ride up together then please email me! Otherwise, we hope to bump into you there.

It’s been a while since I updated my blog and there is good reason for that. Over the past few months I have been working hard and trying to save cash. One of the best things for that was quitting smoking. I quit on November 30, 2008. The cash has been clubbed together to buy a bike.

I got a 2007 Kawasaki ER-6f. It’s not the fastest machine around, but for a 650 it’s fairly nimble, has all the power low down and is nice and upright for going round town. I hope to get a new bike in a year or so and get back into the full supersports category but for now it seems like a good winter bike (since it will have to last 2 winters and a summer I hope), a decent tourer and it’s lighter on the wrists since I am suffering huge wrist pain recently through my work.

There are a few knicks in the fairing but it all came to a lower price and that’s what I was after.

I hope to do a few blog posts about motorcycles soon so if anyone has any questions or comments then let me know. In the mean time, please enjoy my current favourite motorcycle blogger, downshift83 introducing you to some basic motorcycle terms (his other videos are more entertaining but this seemed relevant):

I am a terrorist bomber

Active Screen Corner Customization

I’ve been subscribed to Apple’s Quick Tips podcast for over 2 years now, adamant that sooner of later they’d run out of noobie tricks and show me something I didn’t know. Well it’ finally happened. It’s not too exciting, but it is useful.

I have the bottom right corner of my screen set to launch the screensaver, using the active screen corner feature in Exposé. Occasionally I will launch the screensaver by accident when clicking close to the corner though. I hadn’t realised that you can hold a modifier key when setting this setting and that will require the modifier to perform the action also! No more accidental screensaver lock outs.

Thanks Apple.

Amazing accidents

It’s not new, but it’s still interesting trying to figure out “how?” in some of them.

Weird internets

I have had all kinds of weirdness with my connection the last few days. I thought I might need a new modem due to it dropping the line but now it seems okay. One issue thought is load balancing. It seems capable of pretty much one thing at a time as evidenced here. What’s with that? Even I don’t use 50Mb/s on a single action all the time. 40Mb/s from a single source is pretty good though; thank you iTunes servers!

10.6: Easily switch sound inputs and/or outputs

This is a complete rip from MacOSXHints.com so visit their page and show some love.

New in 10.6 is the ability to option click the sound menu bar icon and change input instead of volume. This is super handy since SoundSource no longer works.

The 'F' Word

It’s an oldy, but I ran across it today and I have to say I still laughed.

Apple updates make me happy

A couple of updates have been released which make me really happy!

A new version of the iPhone config utility is out. Check out MacWorlds roundup of it here.

iPhone Configuration Utility 2.0 for Mac OS X

New updates for ARD were released today for both client and admin versions. Install both and Remote Desktop will run on your Snow Leopard install (finally). Oh, and if you are using a dodgy serial then think again; the main ones are apparently blacklisted. Thankfully we have a good one on the Software Server.

Apple Remote Desktop 3.3.1 Client
Apple Remote Desktop 3.3 Admin